Brig. Gen. Glen VanHerck, director of operations for Air Force Global Strike Command at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, has been promoted to the rank of major general, Air Force Times
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U.K.-based Open Briefing and Oxford Research Group have published a joint report that recommends regulatory, passive and active countermeasures meant to help government organizations stop hostile use of unmanned aerial vehicles by nonstate actors.
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said at the World Economic Forum that the U.S. welcomes the emerging military power of Asia-Pacific countries such as China, Japan and India, DoD News reported Saturday. Terri Moon
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said allied countries in the Middle East should increase their efforts to defeat the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria, Defense News reported Monday. “Now I’m hoping,
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U.S. Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, has said training, modernization and nuclear deterrence will work to support the U.S. national security mission amid the current global security environment,
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Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has said the service branch has started to consider emerging platforms in the areas of robotics, biotechnology, transportation, nanotechnology, explosives and information technology as part of
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French President Francois Hollande has said his government plans to strike a deal that would allow the government of India to buy 36 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale aircraft from France for approximately $9 billion,
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Eric Fanning, nominee for the U.S. Army secretary post, said he plans to explore strategies to ensure military personnel readiness and reverse a proposed brigade size reduction at the Army if confirmed, Defense News reported Thursday. Jen
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National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers has engaged with companies in efforts to identify how they can help disrupt terrorist groups’ exploitation of social media, according to an Atlantic Council blog
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Navy Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said MDA aims to begin flight tests of its modified kill vehicle in 2018 and field the platform by 2019, Space
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