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28-year-old Marine Raider dies in parachute accident
Jun 18, 2020 (UPI)
Sgt. Wolfgang K. Weninger, 28, was conducting training at the U.S. Army's Basic Airborne Course in Ft. Benning, Ga., when he died, according to a press release ...
Department Of Defense And Nextflex Sign New Cooperative Agreement
Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)
The agreement focuses on defense manufacturing requirements to sustain NextFlex's ongoing mission to drive manufacturing technology needs for OSD's research and...
Pentagon surplus handouts stoke the militarization of US police
Jun 14, 2020 (AFP)
That's not by accident. For years the US Defense Department has been handing its surplus equipment over for free to police departments -- and the departments, l...
General Dynamics nabs $2.5B for Stryker Double-V vehicles
Jun 11, 2020 (UPI)
The deal funds production of the vehicles, which are designed to be resistant to mine and improvised explosive device detonations. In June 2018 the Army awarded...
Navy SEAL training resumes after pandemic hiatus
Jun 05, 2020 (UPI)
The Coronado, Calif., facility saw 180 SEAL candidates begin a physical exercise session at dawn on Thursday, the start of Basic Underwater Demolition training....
DoD to phase out stop-movement order
May 26, 2020 (UPI)
Under the shift, which was announced internally Friday and externally Tuesday, some installations will be able to accept transfers immediately, according to Mat...
West Point prepares for June 13 graduation ceremony
May 22, 2020 (UPI)
The cancellation of the remainder of the semester was announced March 19, when cadets were ordered to return home instead of the West Point, N.Y., college and o...
Continuous production agility in action
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
The emergence of new threats, the development of game-changing technologies and increased interest in accessing space by foreign governments and private entitie...
US military will no longer ban COVID-19 survivors from serving
May 21, 2020 (AFP)
Defense Department personnel head Matthew Donovan said he had "rescinded" rules on the matter, which the military had put in place in early May out of concern o...
GAO report: Women leave the military sooner than men
May 20, 2020 (UPI)
The 80-page report, released Tuesday, largely compares active-duty female service member retention and promotion from fiscal year 2004 to fiscal year 2018. The ...
Japanese military to receive new rifles for the first time since 1989
May 19, 2020 (UPI)
U.S. Army plans adoption of Next Generation Squad Weapon
May 15, 2020 (UPI)
NGSW prototypes from Sig Sauer Inc., General Dynamics and Textron Systems are in their final phase of soldier evaluation, with formal testing of weapons and amm...
Prior COVID-19 diagnosis a disqualification for U.S. military service
May 07, 2020 (UPI)
A U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command memo, circulated on Twitter, said that a reported history of COVID-19 will be "permanently disqualifying" for entry ...
Novel research speeds up threat detection, prevention for Army missions
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
Graphs have become a preferred choice of data representation for modeling many real-world systems containing entities and relationships. Such systems and graphs...
21 SW enlisted keep critical USSF asset training churning during worldwide pandemic
May 05, 2020 (AFNS)
Twenty-First OG's Operations Support Squadron's 's Detachment 1, located at Beale Air Force Base, California, operates the direct training pipeline that feeds r...
FN America, Colt's awarded $383.3M to make M16A4s for Iraq, others
Apr 29, 2020 (UPI)
The M16A4 is the fourth generation of the M16 series of military rifles. The Marine Corps began phasing out the M16 in favor of the M4 carbine in 2015. In 2008 ...
Is it time for a 'new way of war?' What China's army reforms mean for the rest of the world
Apr 24, 2020 (The Conversation)
Looking at the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) today, it's hard to say which of these tactics is most germane. Getting the answer right will have enormou...
New stop-movement order will allow some soldiers to change station
Apr 21, 2020 (UPI)
The Department of Defense announced Saturday that it had extended travel restrictions affecting military personnel and their families through June 30 as part of...
Future Army vehicles could see an improvement in structural materials
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
"Our motivation for this research is that there could potentially be a use, as matrix material, for incorporation into lightweight composites in unmanned vehicl...
Amid COVID-19 hurdles, AFRL develops jump kits to rapidly enable operations
Apr 13, 2020 (SPX)
The SecureView Program Office based out of AFRL's Information Directorate is working directly with other government programs to provide remote operators with se...
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