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Calls to overhaul the Pentagon’s buying process go back decades—to the Revolutionary War, one former congressman joked—from defense secretaries from William Perry to Donald Rumsfeld to Robert Gates to Ash Carter. An executive order signed late Wednesday evening is the latest, perhaps the most ambitious—and just maybe, the one with the best chance for success. President Donald Trump’s order calls upon the Defense Department to “rapidly reform our antiquated defense acquisition processes with an emphasis on speed, flexibility and execution.” It mandates greater use of Other Transaction Authorities (via vehicles such as the Adaptive Acquisition Framework), a review of internal regulations…
The Coast Guard has permanently relieved the commander of Coast Guard Sector San Diego following an investigation into allegations of a toxic work climate at the unit.Capt. James Spitler was temporarily reassigned in October along with the sector’s command master chief, Michael Dioquino, for “loss of confidence” in their leadership.According to the service, Spitler was relieved permanently on Tuesday, while Dioquino was permanently relieved in January.Read Next: No More Family Days for Air Force, Space Force: Extra Leave Canceled for 2025District Eleven Commander Rear Adm. Joseph Buzzella recommended the dismissal following an investigation into failures of “leadership, judgment and integrity,”…
For eight agonizing months, Alleta Sullivan clung to the slimmest of hopes that her five sons somehow survived the sinking of the USS Juneau in late 1942.When Navy Secretary Frank Knox officially declared the warship’s 687 missing sailors and officers dead in August 1943, Sullivan — who reportedly battled depression earlier in her life — could have easily fallen into a tailspin of despair. Instead, even before Knox’s confirmation, she had already been doing what her sons would have wanted.She and her husband, Thomas, were supporting the war effort the best they knew how while coping with any parent’s worst…
Just days after Vice President JD Vance’s March visit to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, the installation commander sent out an email to the base distancing it from Vance’s criticism of Denmark and its oversight of the territory, Military.com has learned.Col. Susan Meyers, the commander of the 821st Space Base Group who also oversees the Pentagon’s northernmost military base, sent a March 31 message to all personnel at Pituffik seemingly aimed at generating unity among the airmen and Guardians, as well as the Canadians, Danes and Greenlanders who work there, following Vance’s appearance. She wrote that she “spent the weekend…
Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class Thursday to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on extracurricular activities that have resulted from the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity.The walkouts, which included about a dozen schools on U.S. military bases in Europe, Asia and at least one stateside, represent the biggest collective action military children have taken since the start of the Trump administration to demand a voice in their own education after similar, smaller-scale walkouts in February and March.And the protests happened despite a warning from defense officials…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A Space Force program that buys commercial satellite imagery and analytics has seen success across combatant commands—and with a plus-up from Congress, the service hopes to give commands more information and new tools.Called Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking, or TacSRT, the program began as a pilot in 2023. It provides a “marketplace” where military customers seeking timely intelligence can ask a question and then industry competes to provide answers.The tool has been used to support a wide range of missions, from tracking illegal fishing and monitoring humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to supporting the construction of the Joint-Logistics-Over-the-Shore…
Outdoor Edge has unveiled its latest multi-functional knives with the Razor HTX line of folding and fixed-blade knives, designed to enhance legacy models of Razor knives. The Razor HTX collection includes three folding and two fixed-blade knives, each equipped with an assortment of six blades tailored for different applications, a replaceable wood/bone saw, a blade-storage pod and a blade-holder micro clean-out tool. All knives also feature the new cutting-edge SawSafe technology. This is an added security device integrated into the blade locking mechanism that provides reinforcement during the push and pull of the saw blade and ensures that you can…
President Trump’s April 9 executive order, “Modernizing Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” hits the right notes and endorses the right approaches. After decades of ever-new studies, commissions, and legislation to streamline the defense acquisitions process—followed by halting and sporadic Defense Department implementation—it is encouraging to see a commander-in-chief directly tell the Pentagon to get on with it.The executive order recognizes that DOD has, for too long, failed to embrace fully the more flexible rules and tools it already has on the books. These include other transaction authorities, commercial solutions openings, and the Adaptive Acquisition Framework launched…
Minnesota-based and veteran-owned Alexandria Pro-Fab recently acquired the assets and intellectual property of Adams Arms and announced plans to relaunch the company’s piston-driven ARs and components this summer. “The quality of our products will be the same,” said Greg Ellingson, chief operating officer of Alexandria Pro-Fab. “It’s just under different leadership. We’ll be able to cut out some of the middleman element of things and ensure that Adams Arms remains on the leading edge in piston-driven systems.” Adams Arms was founded in 2007 by Jim Granger in Palm Harbor, FL. The company received its first patent the next year and…