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In the same week that the Pentagon announced a $6 billion accounting error, an investigation by Responsible Statecraft exposed some painfully glaring examples of large Department of Defense (DoD) contractors raising their prices astronomically and more concerning, the Pentagon paying the outrageously inflated prices.
The French Army’s ATLAS automated FCS, provided by Thales, is being upgraded to receive UAV intelligence and target information. (Janes/Giles Ebbutt)
Thales has been awarded a contract by the French military to integrate most of their “in-service UAVs” into the army’s ATLAS (Automatisation de Tir et des Liaisons l’Artillerie Sol-sol) automated artillery fire-control system (FCS), Janes learnt at the Paris Air Show 2023, held from 19 to 25 June.
The contract was awarded this month, Jean-Michel Negret, command chain product line manager for Thales, told Janes.
Tucked into the House Armed Service Committee’s approved amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2024 is a provision that would require the Pentagon to create and implement an oversight process to identify, correct or retire artificial intelligence capabilities used by the military but deemed not responsible by the government’s standards.
Introduced by Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif.
U.S. Amy soldier Col. Jonathan Chung, outgoing commander of 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, smiles and greets guests with his family after the change of command ceremony on North Fort Lewis, June 4, 2021. (U.S. Army photo).
Army Col. Jonathan Chung has been fired as commander of the 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade after being suspended earlier this year, service officials have announced.
Army Maj. Gen. Donn Hill, head of Security Force Assistance Command, ultimately relieved Chung of command “due to a loss of confidence in Col.
In the mid-1980s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had three high-placed moles inside the KGB, the Soviet Union’s state security and intelligence apparatus. When they were suddenly arrested and imprisoned, two of them ended up dead. The third survived, spending six years in a Russian gulag instead.
The moles were outed by FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen, who first began providing secret information to the Soviet GRU (military intelligence) in 1976.
Capt. Bert Hornyak, commanding officer, Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Pearl Harbor, and Capt. James Meyer, commanding officer, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Hawaii, give U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan a tour of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on February 23, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo).
Military families and civilians have filed more than 1,000 new legal claims against the U.S.
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The Marine commandant said Wednesday, in some of his most pointed public comments yet about his naysayers, he was surprised by “the lack of trust” in the Marine Corps by those who oppose…
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The House Armed Services Committee passed its annual defense policy bill early Thursday, authorizing the Navy to buy a total of 10 ships, an increase from the requested nine in the…
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WASHINGTON — The House’s proposed version of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act includes provisions that would push the Air Force to make available more pilot…
