The Navy officially named three future ships this past week, as well as the official name for its new class of ocean surveillance ships. The vessels honor two Navy veterans and underwater explorers, as well as a Marine killed in action during the Iraq War.
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the names at different events on Friday. The amphibious transport dock ship LPD 33 will be named for Travis Manion, Del Toro announced at the U.S. Naval Academy. Manion, an academy graduate, served in the Marine Corps with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and fought in Iraq.
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The GOP chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is aiming to “significantly” increase defense spending this year, and he has a new…
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The Army is scouring industry for unmanned aircraft systems to launch from medium- or high-altitude platforms that would perform tasks like intelligence, surveillance and…
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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the war there has been impacted by attritable, cheap drones and rapidly growing roster of unmanned and robotic systems….
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Concerns still loom over how the Air Force will pay for its CCA drones, as well as other advanced next-generation aircraft.
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The Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) is a sophisticated military platform that enables remote operation of various weapon systems …
As part of the process, the UK MoD has invited industry to participate in a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise.
On December 18, 1944, Moe Berg — a Princeton graduate, Major League baseball star, and Office of Strategic Services operative — discreetly took his seat in a cramped conference room in Zurich. Masquerading as a studious physics graduate, the hulking Harlem-born Jew listened attentively to the keynote speaker, the Nobel-prize winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg. His instructions were straightforward. Should Heisenberg say anything indicative of the success of the covert Nazi nuclear program with which he was intimately involved, Berg was to whip out his carefully concealed .
It’s winter and winter means a surge of seasonal flu infections in the northern hemisphere. This year, however, Americans are looking at not just a surge in seasonal flu infections but it is coupled with a surge in three other infections:
A quadruple-whammy of viruses are hitting the US as millions go back to work after the holidays, data shows.
The U.S. military’s Trust Traveler program is once again in effect at bases and installations in the continental United States and Alaska. U.S. Northern Command reinstated the program after a week, following a pause in the wake of two separate terrorist attacks.
“As of 10 January, U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has returned the use of Trusted Traveler program subject to installation commanders’ local policy,” NORTHCOM said in a statement to Task & Purpose.