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Dan Parsons
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Air ForceAir Force Chief Nominee Suggests An About Face On Revealing B-21 Contract Award Value
The nominee to become the next chief of staff of the Air Force will toe the service line that releasing the contract award value of the B-21 strategic bomber would […]
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InternationalNATO To Deploy AWACS Aircraft In Support Of ISIS Fight In Iraq
BRUSSELS – A Boeing [BA] E-3A Sentry Airborne early Warning and Control (AWACS) aircraft belonging to NATO will deploy to Iraq in support of the coalition fight against Islamic State […]
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Air ForceAir Force Chief Nominee Gen. Goldfein: Nuclear Modernization Milestones Imminent
The nominee to become the next Air Force chief of staff announced imminent program milestone decisions for two of the service’s nuclear modernization programs during a confirmation before a Senate […]
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InternationalNATO Officially Recognizes Cyberspace As A War Fighting Domain
BRUSSELS – The NATO alliance has agreed to treat cyberspace as a domain of war, a recognition of the importance of computing in modern conflict, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. […]
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International
NATO Defense Spending Pledge Puts Brakes On Global Decline In Military Funding
BRUSSELS – The pledge NATO member countries made to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic products on defense is largely symbolic and has served more to arrest the alliance-wide […]
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Missile DefenseNATO Chief Calls For Member Nations To Up Military Spending In Face Of Sabre-Rattling Russia
BRUSSELS – In response to what is generally seen as a Russia re-energized with Cold War-style expansionism, NATO is flexing its collective muscles including the deployment of Italian surface-to-air missiles […]
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ArmyApache Helicopters Draw First Blood Against Islamic State In Iraq
BRUSSELS –One of the dozen AH-64 Apache helicopters that have been available to Iraqi combat units for months in their fight against Islamic State militants has destroyed an ISIS vehicle […]
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InternationalCarter In Brussels To Push For Greater NATO Spending On Russian Deterrence, Anti-ISIS Fight
ABOARD THE NATIONAL AIRBORNE OPERATIONS CENTER – Secretary of Defense Ash Carter over the next two days will push for NATO countries to adhere to their pledges to set aside […]
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Budget
Carter Says Acquisition System Too Slow To Provide Technology For Future Fights
The U.S. defense acquisition system was too slow to provide for troops’ needs during the wars of the past 15 years and is especially ill suited to provide the technology […]
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Air ForceDenmark Officially Adopts F-35 For Future Fighter Fleet
Denmark’s parliament on Thursday put an official stamp on the choice of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to replace the country’s F-16 fighter fleet. The F-35 beat out both the […]