Air Force Magazine
Here's a look at how the Defense Department is being impacted by and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Military.com
Military entry-level training, like most things in 2020, has been anything but normal this year.
C4ISRNET
The military and intelligence community is scrambling to conduct a daunting hunt across disconnected networks to assess potential damage from an extensive federal cybersecurity breach by suspected Russian hackers.
Defense One
As the government scrambles to understand the widening compromise, legislation to shore up the nation’s cyber defenses sits unsigned on the President’s desk.
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Bloomberg
Air Force and Pentagon investigators opened a criminal probe of Lockheed Martin Corp. in 2016 over faulty coolant line tubing inside F-35 jets after 57 were either temporarily grounded or required production line fixes, according to officials confirming the previously undisclosed inquiry.
POLITICO
The tension between the Trump administration and President-elect Joe Biden's team spilled out into the open on Dec. 18, as officials traded accusations over the status of a series of Defense Department transition meetings that a Biden spokesperson called "invaluable" for national security.
Defense Department release
Today, the Department of Defense announced that Acting Secretary Chris Miller intends to appoint former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower & Reserve Affairs Tidal McCoy and former NASA Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWit to the Defense Science Board.
Armed Forces Bowl release
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, has been chosen as the recipient of the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Great American Patriot Award. Presented annually by Armed Forces Insurance at the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, the Great American Patriot Award honors a candidate in recognition of their exemplary service to the United States.
Air Force Times
Female security forces Airmen at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., on Dec. 11 became some of the first to start using new body armor designed to fit women.
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Military Times
Following a heavily contested contract awarded earlier this year, U.S. Transportation Command is now reviewing several revised proposals for a new contract to manage household goods moves worldwide, officials said. Bidders submitted revised proposals by Dec. 2; the contract is expected to be awarded in June, said André Kok, spokesperson for TRANSCOM.
Federal News Network’s “On DOD with Jared Serbu” podcast
Bigger maintenance budgets over the last few years have helped, but money isn’t everything. The Navy is trying to innovate its way out of the readiness problem too, and with some success, thanks to a combination of processes borrowed from the commercial airline industry, data analytics, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
Air Force Magazine
Innovation has always been a hallmark of the U.S. Air Force. But with the accelerating pace of technology development, the service needs a new approach to modern design to make the latest technologies profoundly more accessible.
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The Aviationist
“Wise Guy”, the B-52H Stratofortress bomber tail number 60-034, is preparing to return to service with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. The aircraft was filmed flying from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., where the aircraft had arrived on April 1 to undergo programmed depot maintenance at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex.
