The Space Force has three weeks to come up with an initial organization plan that Congress wants by Feb. 1, a service official said Jan. 10. Maj. Gen. John Shaw, who serves as both US Space Command’s combined force space component commander as well as ...
US intelligence showed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani was just “days” away from an attack targeting Americans when he was killed in a targeted drone strike on Jan. 3, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. The international community and some members of Congress have been skeptical ...
Eric Chewning, the chief of staff to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, will step down this month, the latest in a series of high-profile officials to leave the Pentagon. Jen Stewart, currently the minority staff director for the House Armed Services Committee, will take over the ...
Lawmakers have slowly gotten on board with the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System concept, which is intended to replace the E-8C Joint STARS aircraft, but they still want more information. ABMS will piece together airborne and ground sensors with space systems to better understand ...
After a heated partisan fight over the Pentagon's nuclear modernization efforts, House and Senate authorizers agreed to let the Air Force's key strategic programs move forward relatively unscathed.
The NDAA funded 60 F-35As for the Air Force—12 more than the service originally requested. However, it also the Air Force to provide an aviation force structure acquisition plan by March 1 of 2020.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper meets with ?Air Force and Navy aviators during during a visit to Prince Sultan AB, in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 22, 2019. DOD photo by SSgt. Nicole Mejia. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Oct. 22...
Defense Secretary Mark Esper, on a visit to Afghanistan in October 2019, says the US will "temporarily reposition" forces from northeast Syria to outside of the country "until they return home." DOD photo via Twitter. As US forces withdraw from...
Syrian Democratic Forces commando cadets clear a room during urban operations training in Syria, Aug. 3, 2019. Army photo by Spc. Alec Dionne. The Pentagon is withdrawing most US troops across Syria as Turkey’s invasion across the border to fight...
The Pentagon is deploying two fighter squadrons and an air expeditionary wing to Saudi Arabia, along with two Patriot Missile defense batteries and one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, following reported Iranian-backed attacks on that country. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the ...