The first woman to lead the U.S. military’s massive logistical enterprise and one of just a handful to ever reach the rank of four-star general in the U.S. military retired Friday. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost passed command of U.S. Transportation Command to Gen. Randall Reed in a ceremony at Scott Air Force Base attended by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Promoted to General in August of 2020, Van Ovost was the senior officer in that rank among the four women four-star generals and admirals across the U.S. military.
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California-based startup Impulse Space has received a $34.5 million contract to demonstrate on-orbit maneuverability for the Space Force’s tactically responsive space program, the service’s acquisition arm announced Friday.
Under the agreement, Impulse will deliver two orbital maneuver vehicles (OMVs) for two missions — Victus Surgo and Victus Salo — that will test how prepositioned space assets could improve the Space Force’s ability to quickly address on-orbit threats, according to Space Systems Command (SSC).
Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton took the helm of the Defense Information Systems Agency and Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Networks in a ceremony Friday.
Stanton, an Army officer, takes charge from Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, who headed both organizations the past three-and-a-half years and will retire after a 40-year career that started as an enlisted sailor in the Navy.
The budget includes funds for the Air Corps to acquire the new Airbus C295W aircraft, a move to improve Ireland’s airlift capabilities.
Boeing flew the Royal Thai Army’s first AH-6 helicopter for the first time, and their pilots will soon learn to fly the platform in the US.
A new timeline for the LMP programme has indicated it could be several years before the British Army begins to receive new mobility platforms.
Host L Todd Wood speaks with Col Rob Maness about General Stanley McCrystal’s use of weaponized social media against the American people, and his endorsement of Kamala Harris.
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Two military siblings had a memorable family reunion at 25,000 feet when an Air Force tanker pilot refueled her brother’s Navy EA-18G Growler attack jet.
During a mission earlier this year, Capt. Elizabeth “Sully” Brakefield, who flies KC-46A Pegasus tankers for the 344th Air Refueling Squadron at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, refueled a Navy EA-18G Growler formation – one of which included her brother, Navy Lt. Lawson Brakefield.
Lawson Brakefield is a flight officer assigned to the Vikings of Electronic Attack Squadron 129 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced plans to deploy the Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard to ports affected by the ongoing International Longshoreman’s…