Pentagon
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PentagonCollaborative Nature Of USSOCOM’s TALOS Is Future Of Procurement, McRaven Says
U.S. Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) program, where partners within the Defense Department, industry and academia work together to solve an operational challenge and earn […]
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Navy/USMCFormer Navy Official Robert Work Tapped For Pentagon Deputy
Robert Work, the former undersecretary of the Navy who has headed up a progressive Washington think tank since he left the Pentagon last year, was nominated Friday to serve as […]
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CongressDefense Think Tanks Would Cut Readiness, Force Structure to Maintain Warfighting Capabilities
Four Washington think tanks agreed the Army should significantly reduce its ground forces and the Navy should retire two to four aircraft carriers while the military overall should boost its […]
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Homeland SecurityL-3 Coleman Aerospace Tapped For MDA’s Medium Range Ballistic Missile Targets
L-3 Communications [LLL] Tuesday said its Coleman Aerospace business has been awarded a new five year contract with options valued at more than $400 million from the Missile Defense Agency […]
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CongressLawmakers Vie for Missile Defense Site After Pentagon Announces 4 Finalists
The Defense Department announced four locations it will investigate as a potential East Coast missile defense site to supplement interceptors in Alaska and California. The four locations–Camp Ravenna, Ohio; Fort […]
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PentagonU.S. Protected Satellites Lack Throughput For Success In Conventional Operations, Expert Says
The United States’ protected military communications satellites do not have the throughput to sustain the data requirements necessary for success in conventional operations, according to an expert on Asian strategic […]
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Air ForceDOT&E Finds Potential Catastrophic F-35B STOVL System Failure
A new Defense Department report found the F-35B’s short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) system could suffer catastrophic failure due to fragment-induced damage of a lift fan blade. The fiscal […]
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Air ForceDOT&E Predicts KC-46A Tanker Slippage of Six to 12 Months
An new Defense Department report predicts a six- to 12-month delay of initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) for the Air Force’s multi-billion dollar, next-generation KC-46A aerial refueling tanker. The […]
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PentagonObama To Order Hike To Minimum Wage For Federal Contractors
President Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order raising the hourly minimum wage for services contractors working under federal contracts to $10.10 and intends to announce the move in […]
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CongressKendall Defends P-8 Maritime Aircraft Against DOT&E, Congressional Criticism
The Pentagon’s top acquisition chief defended the Navy’s P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime aircraft, after a House Armed Services Committee member asked about a report that calls the program “not effective […]