Leslie Smith, recently-tasked as 66th inspector general of the U.S. Army, has been promoted to lieutenant general during a ceremony conducted Feb. 9 at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. With this, Smith replaces David Quantock who has
MoreThe U.S. Army wants contractors to deliver prototypes of the service branch’s future robotic, optionally-manned combat vehicles by 2019, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Brig. Gen. David Lesperance, head of the Army’s Cross-Functional Team
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Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said that his investment priorities for DARPA are aligned with President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy and Defense Secretary James Mattis’ National
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Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the White Houseâs nominee to head the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, has said he plans to prioritize talent recruitment and retention efforts and continue to
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Heather Wilson, secretary of the U.S. Air Force, has said the military branch’s fiscal year 2019 budget request will support efforts to boost space systems security and shift to multi-domain operations. Wilson,
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The U.S. Air Force and NATO have partnered to deal with pilot shortage, a problem that other NATO members have also been experiencing. The Joint Jet Pilot Training program’s Steering Committee conducted a study on
MoreThe Joint U.S. Military Assistance Group has delivered a $13.2 million unmanned aerial system to the Philippine air force under a foreign military finance program. The ScanEagle UAS was delivered under an FMF program aiming
MoreBrig. Gen. Sean Farrell, director for strategic plans, programs and requirements at the Air Force Special Operations Command, has been named director of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s security assistance
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The U.S. Air Force has released its fiscal 2017 acquisition report that assesses the serviceâs management of 465 programs of record and offers projections on those programs in fiscal 2018 and fiscal
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The U.S. Army has initiated an effort to equip National Guard units across all states with a new suite of disaster response equipment. The Disaster Incident Response Emergency Communications Terminal was designed to provide
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