A potential pilot program to allow beards in the Air Force and Space Force may be on its way to a hearing in front of Congress.
Lawmakers want the Secretary of the Air Force to brief them on the program, including how beards would affect discipline, morale and unity in the ranks and what effect beards would have on using air-tight equipment like gas masks. Lawmakers put language requiring the update in a joint explanatory statement from the Senate and House Armed Services Committees which finalized policies in the National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal year 2025.
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The final text of the conference-negotiated fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act would leave it to the head of the Pentagon to determine whether the department should create a new center of excellence focused on AI-enabled weapon systems.
An amendment to a Senate version of the annual defense authorization bill put forth a few months ago would have required the DOD to establish such an organization, but the version of the NDAA hammered out by members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and released Saturday night does not.
US Secretary of State for Defense, Lloyd J. Austin, warns Trump against retreating from an “interwoven world” ahead of government handover.
The US DoD has disclosed the provision of an additional security assistance package valued at $988m for Ukraine under the USAI.
BAE Systems has finalised contracts totalling approximately $2.5bn with Sweden and Denmark for the procurement of new CV90 combat vehicles.
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — At a troop engagement with hundreds of sailors on the recently docked USS George Washington in Japan on Monday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin emphasized the gravity of their fresh deployment, and how the technological capabilities they are bringing to bear there mark major tenets in the U.S. military’s plan to deter Chinese aggression around the Indo-Pacific region in the near term.
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Ziezulewicz, TWZ
It’s hoped that the tiny and hugely expensive Zumwalt class might find new utility with its hypersonic missile launch capability.
Airforce Technology
The JSE is a simulated battlespace designed for training on fifth-generation aircraft.
Waldron, Flight Gl.
A senior U.S.