Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, head of the Naval Sea Systems Command, has said the service branch plans to hand over some maintenance work on submarines and aircraft carriers to smaller repair companies
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has said he expects the Defense Department‘s general purpose forces to perform missions currently designated to special operations teams such as support activities in Iraq and Syria, DoD
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The first members of the Iraqi Border Guard Force have completed 12 days of training under the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve. The Defense Department said Sunday the Iraqi Border Guard Force was
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Robin Swan, deputy director of the U.S. Army‘s office of business transformation, has said that the military branch should change its culture to spur innovation. Swan stated at the 2017 Association of
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The U.S.-led Global Coalition against the Islamic State militant group has liberated 98 percent of the territories claimed by ISIS in 2017. The Defense Department‘s Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
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The U.S. Navy has returned the USS Frank Cable submarine tender to working status following a series of repairs and upgrades in the amount of $56 million. Vigor Industrial performed the maintenance, repair and modernization
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Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has said he met with Ellen Lord, top acquisition chief at the Defense Department; and Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency; to
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has said the Defense Department will modify how it conducts operations to defeat the Islamic State militant group in 2018, DoD News reported Friday. Mattis told reporters Friday
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The U.S. Army has begun to develop two suites of new tools intended for mapping safer routes in missions that may involve enemy mines and traps. Researchers from the Army Research Laboratory and Army
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The Defense Information Systems Agency has announced that Sannadean Sims will retire as DISA’s chief financial officer, comptroller and resource management center director. DISA said Wednesday it will host a retirement ceremony for Sims
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