Once her tenure as chief of U.S. Transportation Command comes to a close, Gen. Jackie Van Ovost is planning to put much of her energy into helping build out America’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) talent pipeline, with a sharp focus on empowering minorities.
“I’ll do community work, and likely, some sort of national component,” Van Ovost, the first female officer to ever lead Transcom, told DefenseScoop on Tuesday.
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Looking to “catapult over the bureaucracy” that’s known to decelerate innovation across Pentagon components, the Navy is getting set to launch a new opportunity designed to accelerate resources to ultimately help deploy and scale emerging technologies that get after some of the greatest challenges warfighters will need to confront in modern conflicts, two senior officials told DefenseScoop.
When Marine Cpl. Spencer Collart’s MV-22 Osprey crashed in August 2023, he made it out alive — but when back into the burning plane when he realized the pilots were trapped inside.
The act of heroism cost Collart his life.
The Osprey crew chief was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal posthumously for trying to save fellow marines in a 2023 Osprey crash in Australia. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric M. Smith, presented the posthumous award to Collart’s family on Monday. The crash killed Collart and the two pilots he tried to save, Maj. Tobin Lewis and Capt. Eleanor LeBeau.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — After early success in its Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Tracking (TacSRT) pilot program, the Space Force is looking to expand the effort to assist additional combatant commands in leveraging space-based commercial imagery and analytics for operations.
Established as a pathfinder program earlier this year, the TacSRT pilot allows the Space Force to purchase “operational planning products” from commercial industry that includes unclassified space-based imagery of specific regions and subsequent analysis of them. The pilot initially focused on U.S.
The British Army will surge its M270 MLRS fleet to more than 70 vehicles by the end of the decade, with at least some being the A2 standard.
Japan’s rising defense budget, aimed at upgrading its naval and aerial capabilities, remains unaffected by the yen’s devaluation.
Latvia and Lithuania will reinforce Ukraine’s demining capabilities with new platforms, such as the M113 and CVR(T), and equipment.
An 82nd Airborne paratrooper died during a training exercise at Fort Johnson, Lousiana last week, Fort Johnson Public Affairs Office confirmed in a statement provided to Task & purpose.
Pfc. Matthew Perez was killed Sept. 13, according to a statement from the 82nd Airborne Division. Perez was assigned to Fort Liberty in the division’s 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
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The “salami slice” approach to island building in the South China Sea has worked well for China.
Marine Corps Compass Points
It has become a tradition for each new Marine Corps Commandant to issue his Commandant’s Planning Guidance (CPG).