The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency expects to award a contract for the XS-1 spaceplane program “soon,” according to an agency spokesman. Rick Weiss said DARPA is in the final stages of a “downselect” to choose one company to proceed...
A Russian plan to create “de-escalation zones” inside Syria would not impact US operations against ISIS inside that country, the coalition said Wednesday. Last week, Russia announced a proposal, along with Iranian and Turkish officials, to create “de-escalation zones” in...
US-backed forces, with the support of barrages of American airstrikes, have isolated the key Syrian city of Tabqa on their way to seize Raqqa. The US-led coalition said Wednesday that ISIS forces are completely “isolated” in the city, though “their...
The 49th Wing at Holloman AFB, N.M., recently completed an MQ-9 surge designed to test the limits of the volume and speed of possible operations. The wing completed 45 Reaper sorties totaling more than 465 flight hours within five days....
A C-17 and airmen from the 301st Airlift Squadron at Travis AFB, Calif., recently flew four unusual passengers across the country—four highly trained bottlenose dolphins. On April 29, the C-17 took off from NAS Key West, Fla., to the US...
The US may send a Patriot missile battery to Lithuania later this year during a military exercise, a move to show US support for Baltic nations on the edge about Russian threats. US Defense Secretary James Mattis, during a joint...
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis recently released a memo reversing a 2016 Department of Defense policy allowing military service academy athletes to go pro without fulfilling their service commitment. The memo states that academy graduates have “received the extraordinary benefits”...
