By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said Monday that AeroVironment Inc’s Switchblade-600 loitering munition was the first weapon to be publicly confirmed to be part of the Replicator initiative, which aims to rapidly deploy thousands of military drones. The Switchblade-600 has gained notoriety because the Ukrainian military is using it to strike Russian […]
New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. The incident was a gruesome coda to America’s longest war, leaving dead 13 United States military service members […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — On the floor of Sea-Air-Space, the U.S. Navy’s largest annual trade show, Mark Massie pointed to a table with three metal parts. These were no ordinary metal widgets, argued Massie, who is a program manager for additive manufacturing — another term for 3D printing — at Naval Sea Systems Command. The […]
Sean Kirkpatrick doesn’t seem too thrilled to be chatting with me about UFOs. Since taking over the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022 – government-speak for UFO hunting – Kirkpatrick has received violent threats, social-media smear campaigns, and even had to call the FBI after a UFO fanatic showed up at his home. […]
A group of Democratic lawmakers wants to know more about steps the Pentagon is taking to restore military honor and benefits to LGBTQ+ veterans who were dismissed because of their sexual orientation, asking for oversight of the process in a new letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Last September, the Pentagon announced it would […]
Insufficient Evidence In one of his first times speaking out since stepping down as the Pentagon’s chief UFO hunter, the former head of the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is revealing the truth — and sorry, but it’s kinda dull. In an op-ed for Scientific American, former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick wrote that […]
By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt EMMAUS, Pa. (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that he has confidence in Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin despite what Biden agreed was a lapse in judgment by the Pentagon chief over his secret hospitalization. Biden spoke to reporters in Pennsylvania, a hotly contested state in the […]
Fallout continues after the news that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was quietly hospitalized. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks didn’t know about Austin’s condition when she took over. It was also several days before the White House was informed, according to reports. The backlash over the hushed hospitalization of US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. […]
Washington — The deputy secretary of defense was not told that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized when she assumed some of his duties on Tuesday, two defense officials confirmed to CBS News. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was informed of Austin’s hospitalization on Thursday, the officials said. Hicks was in Puerto Rico […]
The Pentagon has established new procedures for preventing and responding to civilian harm during U.S. combat operations, following up on a pledge by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III to overhaul the system. The 52-page document, issued last week, delineates responsibilities across the Defense Department and its military commands around the world and requires that possible […]