Military & Defense

The U.S. Navy said last week that, despite the coronavirus pandemic upending its recruiting efforts, it has exceeded its retention targets for the fiscal year 2020 and will now reduce its ranks in overmanned ratings.

The Air Force is expected to make its decision on the preferred location for U.S. Space Command headquarters in early 2021. 

The Air Force and Army could begin major experiments on their systems beginning as early as March 2021 to allow aircrafts, sensors and other weapons systems across services to share data instantaneously, according to a report by the Air Force Times. 

According to the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, the Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer “asserted navigational rights and freedoms near Vietnam in the vicinity of the Con Dao Island in the South China Sea” on Thursday. 

We have to show veterans – and others in our communities who are facing obstacles – that they are not alone.

The $2.3 trillion omnibus spending bill and COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress Monday night includes an extended timetable for how soon U.S. troops and federal employees have to pay back deferred Social Security taxes, thereby reducing the hit to their paychecks next year.

When fielded, the ERCA cannon should be able to fire and take out targets from a position out of the range of enemy systems.

More than 70 cadets training at the U.S. Military Academy to be Army officers have been accused of cheating on a math exam taken online when they were studying remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic.

After months of negotiations, Congress has passed a massive spending package Monday evening, which includes $900 billion in COVID-19 relief and $1.4 trillion to avoid a government shutdown. The bill includes roughly $696 billion in funding for the Pentagon for fiscal year 2021, according to a summary of appropriations. 

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the move establishes a new process to "assist exporters in screening their customers for military end users.”

"Like any pilot, Artuμ (even the real R2-D2) has strengths and weaknesses," Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper tweeted Wednesday. "Understanding them to prep both humans and AI for a new era of algorithmic warfare is our next imperative step. We either become sci-fi or become history."

The Army currently leads as the branch with the highest total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 34,089, followed by the Navy at 19,773, the Air Force at 17,682, and the Marines at 11,380.