A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty in March to federal crimes for leaking highly classified military documents appeared May 14 before a military hearing officer who will recommend whether the guardsman should face a court-martial.
The Biden administration notified Congress on May 14 that it was moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel, U.S. and congressional officials said, a massive arms package less than a week after the White House paused a shipment of bombs over a planned Israeli assault on Rafah.
Britain plans to equip the Armed Forces with a homegrown hypersonic cruise missile by the end of the decade, The Telegraph has learned. Military chiefs want a weapon capable of reaching speeds exceeding Mach 5 as the Government races to catch up with China, Russia, and the U.S.
Russian security agents detained a senior general early Tuesday, widening a purge of the country’s sprawling Defense Ministry amid President Vladimir V. Putin’s broader shake-up of his government. Lt. Gen. Yuri Kuznetsov, who oversaw the ministry’s personnel department, was detained on an accusation of “large-scale” bribery, Russia’s Investigative Committee, a federal law enforcement agency, said in a statement.
“Two decades of ground-centric operations saw a dramatic surge in Army spending to the exclusion of sufficient investment in air power and space power. It is time for a reset. Combatant commanders today require more air power and space power—and budgets need to reflect that,” writes retired U.S. Air Force Col. Jen Reeves, a senior resident fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
As Secretary of State Anthony Blinken played guitar in Kyiv, part of a trip to announce another round of arms support, several Ukrainian government officials were meeting with lawmakers in Washington to pressure the White House to remove restrictions on how Ukraine uses U.S. weapons—particularly long-range ATACMS missiles. They also want more training for F-16 pilots in the United States.
The recent release of Defense Department and Space Force strategic blueprints for the use of commercial space technologies has been met with cautious optimism by the industry. While acknowledging the importance of these vision documents, some executives remain concerned about the lack of a concrete roadmap.
The House Armed Services subcommittee on cyber, information technologies and innovation issued cybersecurity guidance requiring reciprocity on cloud computing systems Monday, pushing the Pentagon to streamline often-duplicative Authorization To Operate procedures.
As Defense Department concern grows about the increasing ability of adversaries to disrupt GPS satellite signals, experts warn that there is no one-size-fits-all alternative to meet military needs for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities.
Lawmakers on the House Armed Services Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee want Pentagon leadership to designate a new go-to senior official to oversee, review and advance all the military’s pursuits to counter emerging and intensifying threats from small drones.
As U.S. launch rates surge at the Defense Department’s two coastal ranges, House lawmakers are pushing the military to consider alternative sites for sending space payloads to orbit. In the House Armed Services Committee’s draft fiscal 2025 defense policy bill, lawmakers raised concerns about the ability of DOD’s most in-demand spaceports at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to meet military and commercial capacity needs in the coming years.
For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock from preparations for the invasion of Japan that was expected to cost many American lives. The Truman Library Institute estimated that 495,000 were left after the war, medals that would go on to be awarded to service members and families through the Korean War, Vietnam War, and on.