The Defense Department’s civilian workforce is reporting a precipitous drop in job satisfaction, according to a survey released Thursday, following a year of cuts and a hiring freeze that has left many offices understaffed and employees in fear of further reductions in force. Conducted by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public…
The Navy is betting $900 million that highly automated factories can help it add submarines in an era when skilled workers are scarce.The contract will support “non-recurring engineering across three facilities” to be built by Hadrian, a four-year-old advanced manufacturing company.“This is not just another factory,” Navy Secretary John Phelan…
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Pentagon officials report that the ground-launched Precision Strike Missile—PrSM for short—made a successful combat debut in the opening hours of the war on Iran. The new, now-proven ground-launched missile offers long-range strike capacity needed in the Middle East, to counter further Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, and to deter Chinese action…
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When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a deadline to renegotiate its contract with the Pentagon to include “all lawful purposes” or be designated a supply chain risk — a classification typically reserved for adversarial foreign firms like Huawei — he framed it as a fight against “woke AI.” “Department…
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A new “non-kinetic effects cell” has helped push cyber operations to the forefront of specialized U.S. military missions such as the capture of Venezuela’s leader in the capital of Caracas, a top official told lawmakers Wednesday.The cell is “designed to integrate, coordinate and synchronize all of our non-kinetics into the planning, and then, of course,…
We’re diving in deeper with the woman who’s been behind the mission from the start, leading operations, raising her girls, and helping build AmmoSquared with purpose and strength. The ‘mom + mission’ storyYou built this company while raising and homeschooling your girls. What did that season teach you about grit, leadership,…
The .50 BMG wasn’t born out of a desire for subtlety. When John Moses Browning developed it in the late 1910s, it was to meet the U.S. military’s need for a heavy machine gun cartridge, capable of defeating aircraft, light armor, and hardened targets at extended ranges. As such, it was…
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A deal to increase production of the Air Force’s B-21 bomber could be reached by March, Northrop Grumman’s CEO said. But a looming government shutdown could hinder talks, as one did last fall.Kathy Warden said no agreement has been reached about the $4.5 billion in reconciliation funding approved last year…
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Update: Two federal officers discharged their weapons during the fatal encounter that culminated in the death of an American citizen Saturday in Minneapolis, several news outlets, including the Associated Press, reported Tuesday. Bystander videos collected during the confrontation suggested as much, but the detail was formally submitted in accordance with…
President Donald Trump was dead wrong to say our foreign allies “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” in Afghanistan.In 2014, I was an infantry platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division, deployed to Kandahar, the hometown of the Taliban. Every Tuesday night, I would make a…
