Preoccupation with checklist procedures and a failure to correctly respond to stall warnings led to the crash of an MQ-9A Reaper during a training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range on June 7, 2016. Just before the accident,...
Retired senior military leaders told Congress Thursday the US must demonstrate its offensive cyber capabilities in order to effectively deter adversaries from launching more cyber attacks on the US. “Using an appropriate, demonstrative, offensive capability can have a wonderfully clarifying...
Two retired Air Force generals and a retired admiral told Congress Thursday that US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency should be separated. “NSA is a crucial component of the intelligence community, and I don’t believe it’s healthy for...
NATO is considering sending more alliance troops to Afghanistan, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday, according to an Associated Press report. “We have received a request from our military authorities to increase our military presence in Afghanistan with a few...
RQ-4s began flying missions from Yokota AB, Japan, for the first time last week. Five Global Hawks and 105 operations and support personnel are deployed there from Andersen AFB, Guam, through October to produce more efficient sorties during typhoon season....
The Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded four $500,000 contracts to study replacement systems for its Space Based Environmental Monitoring mission, which performs space-based cloud characterization and produces theater weather imagery. Electro Optical Vista, Millennium Space Systems,...
The federal government launched a new site allowing users to track spending across communities, recipients, and other categories. The site, beta.usaspending.gov, mostly under construction and “coming soon,” visualizes a lot of its data in maps and charts and could be...