The Navy has awarded a $22.9 billion contract to Raytheon to develop Tomahawk missiles. The U.S. has used missiles like these, which are capable of flying low to the ground to evade detection and can carry 1,000-pound conventional warheads to accurately strike targets up to 1,000 to 1,500 miles away,…
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The height/weight standards used in the military for decades to measure body composition were never able to distinguish between muscle mass and body fat. This is perhaps the biggest reason the military has made the universal change from measuring weight to measuring waist circumference. However, the new method does not…
L3Harris Technologies’ board of directors has promoted Sam Mehta to chief executive from his former role as president of space and mission systems in an abrupt leadership change announced Monday.Chris Kubasik, L3Harris’ CEO since June 2021, stepped down from that position and his other roles as chairman and member of…
U.S Naval Forces Central Command has denied there is a shortage of hygiene products for women aboard the USS Boxer. The USS Boxer is a Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault. The 844-feet-long vessel carries between 1,200 to 1,600 Marines when fully deployed, and functions as a floating airfield and landing base…
Just when I thought I’d heard it all. I’ve spent years listening to military job seekers navigate a brutal civilian job market: competing against thousands of applicants for a single opening, being told they’re overqualified, getting ghosted by employers deep into the interview process. These are painful but familiar stories.…
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It’s possibly the most important job of any Israeli prime minister: maintain good relations with the United States while pushing back on demands seen as undermining Israel’s security. No one has managed the balancing act longer than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader. But with the Iran war at…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The sprawling Golden Dome missile-defense program is in peril because the White House decided to seek the vast majority of its 2027 funding via a controversial budget maneuver, the program’s leader said Tuesday.Gen. Michael Guetlein didn’t explicitly call out the administration’s decision to propose using reconciliation to fund about…
German U-boats operated along the American East Coast in the first half of 1942 with something close to impunity. Merchant ships loaded with fuel and supplies bound for the war in Europe were being torpedoed within sight of beachgoers in New Jersey and the Carolinas. The Navy, still ramping up…
After several years of the Army and Navy publicly missing their recruiting targets by thousands of people, the Defense Department’s five military branches had hit or exceeded their fiscal year 2026 recruiting goal as of July, months ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline. It’s a genuine turnaround — one the…
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A former U.S. Marine whose family said just days ago that he was near death in a Russian hospital has been freed after more than four years in custody and is on his way to a military hospital in Texas. Robert Gilman, 32, was released after Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Expect to see the solicitation for the next iteration of the Pentagon’s main cloud-computing contract on Aug. 24.The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract is the Defense Department’s vehicle for buying cloud services from the main hyperscalers: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Azure and Oracle. The Defense Information Systems Agency announced the date as part of its…
The military knows the dangers that boredom can bring to the workplace. Structured routines, maintenance schedules and organized recreation keep service members’ minds and bodies active. Deployments, training, testing, evaluations, PCSing, combat readiness prep and countless other activities keep time moving fast. Even downtime feels structured. Boredom can drive creativity…
Shuttle run-type fitness tests are becoming more popular in military fitness testing. Multiple types of them test different components of fitness, such as the Army’s sprint-drag-carry, the Air Force’s and Space Force’s 20-meter high aerobic multi-shuttle run (HAMR), a.k.a. the “beep test,” and the service academies’ 4×10-yard shuttle run. Depending…
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Coast Guard forces have suspended a search some ten days after a vessel with nine people on board went missing in the Hall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). USCG and Sector Guam had received news of the 20-foot skiff on July 31 as it was scheduled to return to…
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