Polar Star on Station. The Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star, arrived in Antarctica on Jan. 17 along with a resupply vessel after cutting through 18 miles of seasonal and multi-year ice in support of U.S. interests in the Antarctic. The 150 unpaid Coasties aboard the 42-year-old ...

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Light Combat Helicopter  (LCH) recently “achieved a unique milestone” in the successful firing of an air-to-air missile on a moving aerial target, HAL said on Jan. 17. Shri Madhavan, the chairman and managing director of HAL, said in a statement ...

There were four leadership changes for the 116th Congress among the Senate Armed Services subcommittees, but only one gavel handoff among the Republicans who remain in the majority, the panel announced Thursday. On the other hand, the seven Armed Services subcommittees experienced a lot of churn ...

The Marine Corps is set to request $14 billion for modernization efforts in its fiscal year 2020 budget request, a senior official said Wednesday, with leadership emphasizing a need to improve the capabilities on its amphibious warships. Lt. Gen. Brian Beaudreault, deputy commandant for plans, ...

The Defense Department’s agency charged with providing logistics support to warfighters is seeking information from vendors capable of providing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that can deliver food and water to people in remote areas following a disaster. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in an ...

The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a modification on Tuesday to exercise an option to build one FY 2019 Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), LCS-31. The contract announcement did not cite the specific award value because it “is considered source-selection sensitive information and ...