Coronavirus cases have climbed more than 20% in US service members this week, to 20,212, as the military strives against the pandemic, mirroring to a certain extent the challenges civilian leaders are facing across the country. Defense officials have pointed to local spikes in states like California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia and Florida, all home to multiple...
A Marine master sergeant blasted his way into a building filled with at least eight Taliban fighters in an attempt to save an Afghan comrade during an hours-long fight in which he braved point-blank gunfire and grenade blasts, earning him the nation’s third-highest valor award. The master sergeant was one of eight Marine Raiders recognized...
The US Pentagon is being urged by a bipartisan lawmakers group to stop even faster bying F-35 fighter jet components from Turkey. Senators James Lankford, R-Okla.; Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.; Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., complained in a letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper on July 6 that the Pentagon’s plans to buy...
A $6.07 billion contract from the U.S. Army has been received by Lockheed Martin for the production of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors and associated equipment, to be delivered across FY21, FY22, and FY23 contract years. PAC-3 MSE provides the latest enhancement of the MIM-104 Patriot weapon system. The system leverages an advanced multi-mission interceptor...
U.S. military researchers are being seeking help from the private industrial sector in order to upgrade components of mission-critical software for aerospace and defense applications with more secure and higher-performing code. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., will brief industry in an online webinar from noon to 4...
