Air Force Gen. Dan Caine has been sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a flurry of paperwork was finished to allow him to fill the job nearly two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor. A formal White House ceremony is expected to take place this week.
Russia on April 14 claimed its deadly missile attack on Ukraine’s Sumy that killed and wounded scores including children had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops, while European leaders condemned the attack as a war crime.
Yemeni militias are planning a ground offensive against the Houthis in an attempt to take advantage of a U.S. bombing campaign that has degraded the militant group’s capabilities, Yemeni and U.S. officials say.
A new way to train factory robots could revolutionize how militaries make drones and other weapons, enabling high-volume manufacturing close to front lines. And beyond the battlefield, it shows a possible path forward in the next era of manufacturing, a topic central to the competition between the United States and China, which the National Defense Strategy calls the “pacing challenge.”
The Space Force is exploring options to use its new Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve to facilitate on-demand launches for getting much needed capabilities on orbit quickly.
NATO announced April 14 that it has awarded a contract to Palantir to adopt its Maven Smart System for artificial intelligence-enabled battlefield operations. Through the contract, which was finalized March 25, the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) plans to use a version of the AI system—Maven Smart System NATO—to support the transatlantic military organization’s Allied Command Operations strategic command.
A budding effort between the Defense Innovation Unit, Air Force, and Army to shore up homeland installations with nuclear energy powered by microreactors is moving forward after the DOD determined eight vendors are now qualified to proceed with demonstrating the technology.
We have gotten a new look at China’s enigmatic KJ-700 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft in service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). This latest addition to China’s rapidly proliferating family of AEW&C platforms remains somewhat mysterious, although it appears to be something of a ‘multi-intelligence’ aircraft, combining both airborne radar as well as an array of electro-optical and infrared sensors, likely intended to track targets across air, sea, and potentially land domains.
Adm. Daryl Caudle—a longtime admiral who has demanded accountability from America’s ailing shipbuilding industry—has emerged as the front-runner for the Navy’s top officer post, according to five people with knowledge of the process.
On Dec. 10, 1954, John Stapp, a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and researcher, hopped into an experimental decelerator sled. It would be his last ride in the sled, testing the limits of gravitational forces on the human body as it accelerates and decelerates. He reached a speed of 632 miles per hour that day, experiencing 46.2 g. It was then the most ever experienced by a human and it made Col. John Stapp “The Fastest Man on Earth.”