Navy: Maintenance Backlogs Improving Despite Long Waits for Submarines Navy officials sought to reassure lawmakers that the service's backlog for ship and submarine maintenance is improving.
Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant Helicopter Won't Fly This Year: Officials The Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant helicopter program will miss its first scheduled tests due to "minor technical issues."
Coast Guard Commandant Boosts Plan to Outfit Cutters with ScanEagle Drones Sea trials have proven the worth of having ScanEagle aircraft aboard Coast Guard cutters.
SecNav Voices Support for Space Agency, Offensive Cyber Ops Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer pledged his support Thursday for an organization dedicated to space operations.
Lawmakers Question Pentagon's Strategy Focusing on Russia, China Senators voiced concern that the Pentagon's new defense strategy could hurt the counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan.
Army Tests Handheld Device for Detecting Liquid Chemical Agents U.S. Army research officials have developed a new, handheld chemical agent detector that can "taste" suspicious liquids.
More BACN, Please; Data Node for Global Hawks in High Demand In the skies above Iraq and Syria, warfighters are achin' for some BACN: the communications relay, not the breakfast delight.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
