Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Riordan, 6th Maintenance Squadron metals technician, heats up a tripod jack at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, Jan. 25. The heat treatment expanded the joining metal, allowing the pieces to separate with ease. This new process reduced the separation time from eight hours to 20 minutes.
Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Zachary Foster
The House Armed Services Committee’s draft National Defense Authorization Act indicates lawmakers may not be ready to privatize more barracks, as Military.com reported. “Members aren’t completely bought into privatizing all housing,” a senior Republican committee aide...
The House Armed Services Committee’s draft National Defense Authorization Act raises concerns about whether Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base, California can accommodate an expected growth in commercial and military space...
The House Armed Services Committee released its draft fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act this week. Among many other provisions, the draft bill: Sticks to the $883.7 billion topline budget figure established in last year’s budget deal Requires a DOD...
President Biden signed an order to block a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining firm from owning land near Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, AP reported. The order was in coordination with the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States....
The House Armed Services Committee will not hold separate subcommittee hearings pertaining to individual portions of the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, Military Times reported. It will roll that work into the full committee’s marathon markup,...
Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota is set to receive $850 million for upgrades to its nuclear weapons facilities, The North Dakota Monitor reported....
House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) hopes that his committee will know by the end of next week how much funding it plans to...
DOD’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs is hosting a webinar Wednesday, May 15 at 4 p.m. ET to discuss artificial intelligence and cybersecurity....
The Army has proposed legislation that would allow it to lay out demolition and consolidation ideas for five locations over the next three years,...
Registration is now open for ADC Connect, “a unique opportunity to be ‘in the room’ as we define the future of partnerships,” according to the event...
The DOD Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program has released an RFP for REPI Challenge grant funding for fiscal year 2025,...
There’s some bipartisan talk on Capitol Hill of raising the fiscal year 2025 defense budget above the levels agreed to in last year’s spending deal....
Defense leaders, policymakers and community representatives from across California are meeting in Sacramento May 15 and 16 for the California...
President Biden told reporters last week that “order must prevail” when protests become violent, as some pro-Palestinian demonstrations have on...
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell steps down from his Senate leadership role after the November elections, he’ll have at least two more...