The Air Force awarded Boeing a $326 million contract for 15,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition tailkits, according to a March 31 release. Work on the Lot 20 tailkits will be done at Boeing’s St. Louis, Mo., facility and is expected...
The US-led coalition believes ISIS head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive and it is actively hunting him. Army Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, initially said “we know he’s [al-Baghdadi] alive,” during a Pentagon...
The US military conducted an airstrike in Somalia against a senior al Shabaab leader on March 31, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The US is “still assessing the results” of the strike, but said removing the target, Hassan Ali Dhoore,...
The United States’ ability to maintain assured access to space is eroding, and “the need for vigilance has never been greater,” the deputy assistant secretary of defense, space, strategic, and intelligence systems said Friday. More than 170 countries have access...
The Department of Defense is partnering with the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America consortium to establish a new manufacturing innovation to create wearable technology that can “see, hear, sense, communicate, store energy, regulate temperature, monitor health, change color” and more,...
Those who want to hack the Pentagon can now register to do so. On Thursday, the Pentagon opened registration for a pilot program, called “Hack the Pentagon,” that will allow hackers to find and analyze vulnerabilities on public DOD webpages...
Hours after President Barack Obama discussed deterring North Korean aggression with Japan’s and South Korea’s presidents, North Korea appeared to launch a missile into the sea, Reuters reported. North Korea has actively attempted to showcase its nuclear ambition recently, purportedly...
An F-35C launched an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon for the first time March 23, according to a press release. The air-to-surface guided glide bomb was cleanly released from an internal weapons bay in the test aircraft, Navy test pilot Cmdr....
Defense Department and Russian defense officials again discussed flight safety in Syrian airspace during a March 31 video teleconference, according to a press release. Both sides vowed to adhere to the memorandum of understanding on flight safety as long as...
