DOD & VA to hold ‘closed door’ conference on burn pits
Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs officials are meeting in March 2019 in Arlington, Virginia, for a two-day symposium on burn pits and airborne p…
Next military pay raise could be largest since 2010
Military pay raises in 2020 could be in the range of 3.1 percent, an increase of 0.5 percent over the 2.6 percent raise in 2019, according to federal economic…
This is how much it costs to rent Air Force planes
The Air Force has planes for every mission, but those planes aren’t always doing missions for the Air Force.
In October 2018, the Defense Department comptroller released the latest
While the Defense Department has no official policy that explicitly states service members or U.S. federal employees may not buy stock in companies that manufacture or sell marijuana, commanders have the discretion to warn their troops against the m… The U.S. Space Force will allow the Defense Department to deliver space capabilities and results faster, better, and ahead of adversaries, Pentagon officials said March 1, 2019. Officials spoke with reporters on background in advance of the an… Calling the breadth and capability of the U.S. Special Operations Forces “astonishing,” the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict discussed the global posture of the nation’s special operations enterpris… The Defense Department launched its artificial intelligence strategy Feb. 12, 2019, in concert with Feb. 11, 2019’s White Hous… Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound in 1947, and the Air Force has never looked back. The Air Force partnered with NASA to develop and test the X-15, a hypersonic, rocket-powered aircraft in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. A grea… The increase in rates of sexual misconduct at the military academies detailed in the Defense Department’s annual report of sexual harassment and violence are “frustrating, disheartening, and unacceptable,” the Pentagon’s director of force resili… The US military, together with its coalition partners, is close to liberating the last of the ISIS-controlled territory in Syria, the Pentagon’s top official said Jan. 29, 2019. “I’d say 99.5% plus of ISIS-controlled territory has been retu…Military commanders warn troops against investing in marijuana
DOD describes space as a ‘warfighting domain’ and urges Space Force
Spec Ops leaders tell Congress they’re in the ‘risk business’
Pentagon releases an artificial intelligence strategy and it’s straight up Skynet
China tests more hypersonic weapons than US – until now
Pentagon calls increase of sexual misconduct “unacceptable”
ISIS is about to lose the last of its territory in Syria