Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, embarked aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier CVN 73 USS George Washington, conducted high-intensity land strike training with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) earlier this month in the Timor Sea as part of exercise Talisman Sabre 2015.
The U.S. military, law enforcement and related organizations can use the “Dark Web” for their own purposes, a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report says.
The U.S. Special Operations Command (Socom) should be transparent about its overall Special Operations Forces (SOF) funding, a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
U.S. Marines embarked aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier CVN 73 USS George Washington to introduce the Joint Automated Deep Operation Coordination System (Jadocs) during exercise Talisman Sabre 15 (TS15).
In a country where the government is struggling to pay the wages of its civil servants and the pensions of its retirees, one might think that Greece’s defense budget has taken a backseat to other areas of public spending.
HOUSTON – NASA faces a steep rise in the cost of supporting the International Space Station (ISS), according to a cautionary audit from the agency’s inspector general. It is a trend that threatens to take a prolonged financial toll if a U.S.-backed, four-year extension of operations through 2024 wins support from the orbiting lab’s major partners.
NanoRacks has teamed with Blue Origin to provide payload accommodation for scientific experiments and education projects on the New Shepard suborbital spaceflight vehicle when it begins flying as early as next year.
The International Space Station (ISS) crew took shelter in their docked Soyuz crew transport vehicle early July 16 after a fragment from a former Russian weather satellite threatened to pass close before flight controllers here and in Moscow could arrange an avoidance maneuver.
South Korean program managers may have to trim a plan to modernize 134 F-16s, following U.S. Defense Department confirmation that the proposed work by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman would exceed Seoul’s budget.
Australia may increase its planned force of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrollers under a policy set out in a defense white paper expected within weeks, local media say.
The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth partnered with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer DDG 82 USS Lassen earlier this month to complete their first combined South China Sea presence operations.
While Talisman Saber dates back about a decade, this is the first centered in this area since the major increase in the U.S. Marine presence near Darwin, and the first to include Japanese forces.
Pluto has previously unsuspected mountains of water ice as high as the Rockies, while its moon Charon features spectacular canyons as much as 6 mi. deep.
“This agreement with TASL is significant because it demonstrates Boeing’s commitment to expanding its aerospace manufacturing footprint in India,” says Shelley Lavender, president of Boeing Military Aircraft.
A leading Australian defense think tank is urging Canberra to question the viability of the surface warship before committing to continuous construction of naval vessels in the country.
Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit trying to establish a growing human settlement on the Red Planet by the late 2020s, plans to use team challenge, isolation and rigorous interview strategies to cull its current international roster of 50 men and 50 women down to 24 prospective colonists.
