The Air Force is beginning to build its own cyber teams aimed at supporting tactical air missions. The move is part of something the service is calling cyber-enabled air superiority.
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Boeing will remanufacture an additional five US Army Apache attack helicopters to AH-64E standard and build 16 new aircraft of the same model for an international customer under a contract modification agreement announced on July 21.
This award, from the US Department of Defense, is a modification to the multi-year contract awarded to Boeing in March, bringing the new total Apaches to produce to 205.
The Defense Information Systems Agency has tapped 16 vendors to compete for task orders for “proliferated” low-Earth orbit satellite-based services.
The move came as the Pentagon and the Space Force increasingly looks to commercial providers for space capabilities, including those that use spacecraft in LEO.
The new awards, issued July 18, were facilitated by Space Systems Command’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office, DISA noted in a release on Friday.
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Russia has responded with predictable outrage after the latest Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow, with Kyiv promising more such attacks to come. As well as the Russian capital, Russian-occupied Crimea was the target of multiple drone strikes overnight.
For some of us, Medgar Evers sounds like just another name. But for students of Civil Rights history, the Black Mississippian evokes feelings of awe, respect and victory. Evers led an attempt by Black veterans to vote in 1946. He helped push the integration of a public law school after Brown v. Board of Education. And he conducted investigations of violence against Black Americans, and organized voter registration drives.
Of course, that all sounds like pretty dangerous work for a Black man in Mississippi during the 1940s to 1960s.
Next month, during the Large Scale Exercise 23, the Navy and Marine Corps will put advanced networking capabilities through their paces, including those associated with the secretive Project Overmatch, according to the head of Fleet Forces Command.
The next iteration of the biennial event, slated for Aug. 9-18, will span 22 time zones in a live virtual, constructive (LVC) environment. It will loop in nine maritime operations centers, six carrier strike groups, three amphibious ready groups, 25 ships and submarines, more than 50 “virtual” ships, and 25,000 sailors and Marines.
The Glock 17 is often erroneously thought of as the world’s first polymer-framed handgun. While Glock popularized the use of plastics in pistols, it wasn’t the first. Rather, Heckler & Koch was the first manufacturer to bring a polymer-framed handgun to the market. Today, the German manufacturer is well-known for its extremely tough and equally expensive firearms that are primarily marketed to law enforcement and militaries. However, H&K’s original polymer pistol was actually made for civilians.
The VP70 is sometimes called the staple gun for its appearance and trigger feel (reddit.
Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller served as a weapons sergeant in Afghanistan during the War on Terrorism. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his brave action in Kunar Province during a conflict in 2008. He served with the Special Forces Operation Detachment, Company A, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne).
Background
A Midwesterner through and through, Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller moved from Pennsylvania to Illinois in childhood. After high school, he enrolled at the University of Iowa before joining the United States Army.
Ukraine’s NATO membership has been a topic of constant debate since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. In 1994, Ukraine became a Partnership for Peace member to create trust and cooperation with NATO members and other former Soviet states. Although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has remained adamant about his nation’s NATO membership, admitting Ukraine into the alliance while it is at war is a challenge. Still, leaders are confident that Ukraine will become a member soon.
On September 30, 2022, Ukraine submitted its application to NATO.
Look, I apologize. I try to keep up with cool military history developments so you don’t have to. But it’s been a hectic year and apparently I missed something big back in December: For only the third time ever, Congress authorized an award of the rank General of the Armies. Ulysses S. Grant joined George Washington and John Pershing in the smallest club of officers in history.
What is General of the Armies?
At the end of World War I, the world rejoiced that the largest conflict in modern history to that point was over.