AUGUST 13, 2020 - Operation Warp Speed is a public-private partnership whose goal is to deliver 300 hundred million doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Defense Department are partnered to work with private industry and other federal departments and agencies on this unprecedented … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2020
Engineers Receive Virtual, Hands-on Helicopter Test Training
AUGUST 12, 2020 - Despite COVID-19 restrictions on travel and groups, 413th Flight Test Squadron employees were able to receive vital flight test training here last month. A group of the squadron’s test engineers received virtual training via the Florida Tech Helicopter Flight Test Engineer Performance course in all things related to helicopters helicopter performance … [Read more...]
Space Force Releases 1st Doctrine, Defines “Spacepower”
AUGUST 12, 2020 - Fewer than eight months after its creation, America’s newest military service published its first doctrine, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Capstone Publication, entitled Spacepower. The SCP, which is the first articulation of spacepower as a separate and distinct form of military power, serves as a foundation upon which to build additional doctrine as … [Read more...]
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines Make History on Peleliu
AUGUST 12, 2020 - The island of Peleliu, Republic of Palau, is a tropical paradise with dense jungles, coral rock beaches, stretching reefs and sandbars just below the surface of the clear turquoise waves. However, encounters with unexploded ordnance from World War II are a fact of life in Peleliu that still endangers the local people. The Marines of Task Force Koa Moana 20, I … [Read more...]
Air Force AI Accelerator Brings Future Faster
AUGUST 12, 2020 - Mankind has often dreamed of what the future may hold. Every advancement in technology opens minds to dream bigger and better. Imagination is the only final frontier as the human race ventures deeper into what were previously lightly treaded upon territories. Artificial intelligence is one of those territories; and it’s not the infamous Skynet that fuels … [Read more...]