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Drug Busts Grow as More Aircraft Deploy to SOUTHCOM

July 10, 2020

U.S. Southern Command has seized more than 122 tons of cocaine since April as America uses more surveillance aircraft to crack down in regional counternarcotics operations, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said July 10. The federal government has deployed 75 percent more intelligence-collection and target-tracking planes, like the Air Force…

Lewis to Perform Duties of Undersecretary for Research and Engineering

July 10, 2020

The Pentagon is expected to name the acting undersecretary of defense for research and engineering as early as July 13, with the department’s current director of defense, research, and engineering for modernization to perform the duties in the interim. Michael D. Griffin, who held the position since December 2017, stepped…

Japan’s F-35 Buy Advances to Congress as Tokyo Presses Ahead with ‘F-X’

July 10, 2020

Japan has gotten a green light from the State Department to buy 105 more F-35s in two variants, which will make that country the largest operator of the Lightning II outside the U.S. The news comes the same week Japan's defense ministry informed the country's legislature that it will move…

Most Air Force Recruits with COVID-19 Show No Symptoms

July 10, 2020

The Air Force is relying on testing early and often to curb the new coronavirus's spread at Basic Military Training, even as the majority of recruits who test positive are asymptomatic. About 200 Airmen in BMT have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past four months, totaling around 2…

General Electric’s F-15EX Engine Contract Includes 19 Powerplants

July 10, 2020

The Air Force's first batch of engines for the F-15EX will number 19 powerplants; 16 installs and three spares, Air Force Materiel Command said. The number of engines was withheld when the engine contract to General Electric was announced last month. The three spares constitutes a 20 percent spare factor,…

Snapshot: DOD and COVID-19

July 10, 2020

Here's a look at how the Defense Department is being impacted by and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Air Force Academy Confirms New COVID-19 Cases

July 10, 2020

An undisclosed number Air Force Academy cadets who went back to campus over the summer—including some from the class of 2024—have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the school confirmed to Air Force Magazine on July 8. If any cadets test positive for or show symptoms of COVID-19, or if…

Defense Giants Seek More Money for COVID Rebates

July 9, 2020

The heads of eight top defense contractors are urging the White House and Pentagon not to cut modernization and research and development funding to come up with the money to pay for expenses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The companies said they're worried modernization will be derailed if the Pentagon…

Democrats Ask DOD to Rescind Transgender Military Service Ban

July 9, 2020

A group of Democratic House members wants the military to nix its ban on service members who are openly transgender in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County ruling. The June 15 opinion, written by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch and issued June 15, made it illegal to…

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