MARCH 14, 2024 - From the National Training Center and Camp Pendleton, California, to White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, a platoon-size team of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command multi-component Soldiers and civilians experimented with cutting-edge technologies in February and March during Project Convergence–Capstone 4. PC-C4, a U.S. Army-hosted, joint and … [Read more...]
AFWERX Director Discusses Role of Tech Startups
Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, delivers the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024. Leigh's briefing, “Chasing Innovation: Lessons Learned,” shared the breadth of AFWERX's portfolio and how the organization unleashes American Ingenuity to rapidly provide novel technology … [Read more...]
Airlift Wing Wraps up Antarctic Science Support Mission
An LC-130 Hercules assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing sits on the ice runway near the United States’s main operating location in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, on Nov. 11, 2023. From October 2023 to March 2024, 366 Airmen assigned to the wing transported 2.2 million pounds of cargo, 1,500 passengers and 68,000 gallons of fuel in support of National … [Read more...]
Warfighting Posture Continues Despite Slight Budgetary Decrease
MARCH 14, 2024 - During fiscal year 2025, the Space Force will continue to invest in areas key to obtaining a warfighting posture despite a proposed 2% downturn in next year's budget, according to the agency's chief of space operations. While discussing the current state of the Space Force during a broad-ranging, half-hour interview with Defense One yesterday afternoon, Gen. … [Read more...]
Biden Announces Urgent Security Assistance for Ukraine
MARCH 13, 2024 - Yesterday, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance as an extraordinary measure to address some of Ukraine's most pressing security and defense needs. This announcement is the Biden Administration's fifty-fifth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. This Presidential Drawdown … [Read more...]