The Army is adding more soldiers to some of its most overworked units, creating a new job that will operate and maintain the service’s largest air defense systems, officials confirmed to Task & Purpose.
The Air and Missile Defense Systems Repairer will be trained to “troubleshoot, fault isolate, repair, service, modify, fabricate, and inspect” Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems, officials announced in an April 1 military personnel message. The job’s military occupational speciality, or MOS, will be 14W.
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It’s been more than two months since Congress failed to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard. The resulting partial government shutdown has caused fear and uncertainty for many Coast Guardsmen and their families.
Adm. Kevin Lunday, the commandant of the Coast Guard, warned Congress during an April 16 hearing that the service has been unable to pay 5,000 utility bills due to the shutdown. He added that more than 100 providers have “threatened to cut off electricity and water to our Coast Guard stations and air stations.
The United States military is often worse than your ex at bringing up old stuff. Only it’s less about what you’ve done to them and more about what they’ve done to other people.
The Marine Corps is especially great at this. “Have a Dan Daly Day” is a farewell you may hear a Marine say to another. It’s not surprising. You spend all your time reading off laminated sheets of paper—plastered with every bit of Marine Corps history it can contain—while waiting outside the chow hall.
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Leidos has secured a $617m US Army contract to produce additional launchers for the Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 system.
The eMerge Americas conference and expo brings together the leaders and emerging players in the some of the most advanced and in-demand defense technologies today. Companies making huge leaps forward in AI, counterdrone, and PNT denial tech bring their latest developments to showcase, pitch to the Department of Defense, or even find investors.
But one of the most stunning developments at the conference is actually something that everyone who works in defense (including the warfighters themselves) really needs in everyday life. And it’s not high tech or AI. It’s human counterintelligence.
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The department has requested $65.8bn in shipbuilding fund and $34.4bn for aircraft procurement.
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The Navy is pushing more counter-drone hard-kill capabilities to its fleet as it comes to terms with the growing threat of one-way attack drones.