SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 - Every day, people across America are designing, building and producing critical materials and technologies to ensure that the armed forces have every advantage and capability they need, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy said. Jesse Salazar spoke today at the George Mason University School of Business in Arlington, … [Read more...]
Air Force Plans For Mandatory COVID Vaccination
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 - During a roundtable discussion at the 459th Air Refueling Wing at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 11, Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones met with Air Force Reservists to discuss the Department of Defense-wide COVID-19 vaccination directive and its quickly-approaching completion deadline of Dec. 2, for the Air Force Reserve established by Secretary … [Read more...]
DoD Taking Measures to Protect Nuclear Weapons, Space Assets
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 - The Defense Department relies on nuclear-armed bombers, submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as space-based sensors, to provide a strategic deterrence umbrella for the homeland and to protect deployed forces, allies and partners. However, sensitive microelectronics used in these assets could be vulnerable to high levels of ionizing … [Read more...]
EOD Soldiers Field Test Unmanned Aerial System
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 – Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from the 707th Ordnance Company (EOD) were among the first U.S. Army EOD Soldiers to conduct field testing with the Skyraider Unmanned Aerial System. EOD Soldiers from the company put the UAS through its paces from a village in Training Area 4 on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Aug. 23 – Sept. 2. According … [Read more...]
Army Tests Newest Dismounted GPS Devices
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 — Airborne Soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky tested two new GPS navigation systems here that could allow the Army to better shoot, move and communicate in a GPS degraded environment. Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment and 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division assessed the … [Read more...]