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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is about to drop the hammer on retired Gen. Mark Milley, Trump’s former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and one of the president’s favorite rhetorical punching bags. In addition to pulling Milley’s security clearance and yanking his personal security detail, Hegseth will also ask the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate his conduct, and the probe could end in Milley receiving a demotion, Fox News reported Tuesday.
The US Pentagon has suspended most of its funding assistance activity excluding contractual awards; this calls into question aid to Ukraine.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Military contractor L3Harris is modifying one of its ground-based drone defense platforms for the maritime domain in an effort to thwart low-cost systems with other low-cost systems.
The company has sought to outfit its Vehicle Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE) to small unmanned surface vessels, Jon Rambeau, who leads the Integrated Mission Systems business at L3Harris, said in an interview at the annual WEST conference in San Diego.
RTX has reported a robust 2024 in terms of financial outcomes, with adjusted sales witnessing an 11% organic increase.
Instro has a contract expansion, valued at £16m ($19.9m), to supply extra XACT nv33 Night Vision Goggles to the British Armed Forces.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Erik Quigley has been fired from his job at Air Force Materiel Command after an internal investigation “revealed inappropriate personal relationships,” according to an Air Force news release.
As of Wednesday morning, no additional information about what type of relationships led to Quigley’s removal was immediately available.
No charges have been filed against Quigley, an Air Force Materiel Command spokesperson told Task & Purpose.
Trump betrays military members – The question is why?
I wrote late last year about concerns President Trump would not fire General C.Q. Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Our fears are now realized.
“Talking to the Chairman, and so many other folks here, we’re in capable hands. The warfighters are ready to go,” Hegseth told reporters, shortly after greeting Brown with a salute and grin at 8:57 a.m. Eastern Time when his motorcade rolled up to the Pentagon’s River Entrance, reported Air and Space Forces.
The Air Force is conducting mission-level modeling for the next increment of its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, and options being considered include drones that don’t require runways to be launched, according to a senior officer.
The CCA initiative envisions using highly autonomous uncrewed systems to serve as robotic wingmen for manned fighter jets and perform other missions. The service plans to develop and field new iterations of these types of platforms over time.
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The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems over $70 million to upgrade Mk 45 5-inch naval gun systems and ancillary equipment.