The Navy plans to give four companies the opportunity to compete for delivery orders to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support via contractor-owned, contractor-operated (COCO) drones, according to a pre-solicitation.
Program officers have been looking to expand the vendor pool for these types of services, which enable the U.S. military to boost its ISR capacity without having to buy and maintain additional systems and manage their full lifecycles.
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President John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Texas Book Depository while on an official visit to Dallas, Texas, in 1963. His assassin was Marine Corps veteran Lee Harvey Oswald, a marksman who fired the shot with a mail-order Carcano rifle. JFK was rushed to Parkland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 30 minutes later.
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Just after 2 p.m. that day, Kennedy’s body was transported from the hospital to Dallas’ Love Field, where his casket was loaded aboard in the passenger section of Air Force One.
Military aircraft come in all shapes and sizes, but these days nearly all of them have one thing in common: they are painted grey. Boring, monotonous grey. But military aviation has a colorful history: from the invasion stripes and red tails of World War II to the bare metal of Korea and the camo schemes of Vietnam.
So what happened? Turns out science, art and logistics all play a role in how the U.S. military paints its aircraft for battle.
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A Minnesota man was convicted on several charges of defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $140,000 in benefits, falsely claiming to be a Marine veteran, Purple Heart recipient, and former prisoner of war. Mikhail Robin Wicker, 39, forged medical certificates and other documents to apply for and receive VA benefits, according to the Justice Department.
On Nov. 21, a federal jury convicted Wicker of wire fraud, mail fraud, using a false military discharge certificate and fraudulent use of military medals, the Justice Department announced.
The US Department of War said that soldiers at AVCOE have started training with Edge Autonomy’s VXE30 Stalker UAS.
Rheinmetall has entered a collaboration with Varjo to integrate its deployable virtual land training simulators with the latter’s technology.
We’ve been there, done that. But it will never be something we take lightly. Spending the holidays on your own—away from your service member—can bring on all the feelings of why the military is 100% tough on families.
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Before we get into it, let’s acknowledge the mix of emotions this season brings. Military spouses feel all the things during the season of giving. From gratitude to loneliness, from joy to exhaustion, the rollercoaster of sentiments can go from all-time highs to lows very quickly.
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The Royal Navy is “vulnerable to promoting to