MAY 12, 2023 — Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, have combined efforts with The Ohio State University, or OSU, and industry partners CapSen Robotics and Yaskawa Motoman to successfully demonstrate an autonomous robotic incremental metal forming prototype at the Warner-Robins Air Logistics Complex, or WR-ALC, a tenant of Robins Air Force Base in … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2023
Budget Request Protects U.S. Today and in Future
MAY 12, 2023 - The president's fiscal 2024 defense budget request is a strategy-driven document ensuring the U.S. military is the strongest in the world now and into the future, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee today. The $842 billion budget request ensures the military can perform its missions today and be … [Read more...]
Air Force Streamlines Accommodation Appeals Process
MAY 12, 2023 - To streamline the civilian reasonable accommodation, military religious accommodation, and all accommodation appeals processes, the Department of the Air Force has created the DAF Accommodation Portal. Airmen, Guardians and civilians, as appropriate, will be able to apply for any of these options when the DAF-AP becomes active on May 15. The portal will … [Read more...]
Nation Marks 50th Anniversary of End of Vietnam War
MAY 12, 2023 - The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration yesterday hosted "Welcome Home! A Nation Honors our Vietnam Veterans and their Families," on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The first of a three-day event on the Mall marks the 50th anniversary of when the last combat troops left South Vietnam in 1973. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro … [Read more...]
Navy Completes Participation in Oman-led Naval Exercise
MAY 11, 2023 – U.S. naval forces completed participation in a weeklong Oman-led naval exercise in and off the coast of Oman, May 11, with forces from France and the United Kingdom. The five-day exercise, called Khunjar Hadd, focused on mine countermeasures, explosive ordnance disposal, maritime interdiction and other combined naval operations. Personnel from a U.S. 5th … [Read more...]