The Defense Department issued its own Exceptional Family Member Program, a move that ensures consistency across the services for military families with special needs.
American and Italian service members working together around the world are the living symbol of the strong bonds that tie the United States and Italy together, defense leaders from both countries said.
Nearly 9,000 American troops are expected to participate in the Defender 23, an exercise that demonstrates the U.S. military’s ability to rapidly deploy combat-credible troops and equipment.
Defense Department officials are focused on understanding the industrial base and what it would take to expand production, as well as finding better ways to collaborate with industry.
The Chinese social media company TikTok is a potential threat to the United States, John F. Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy and principal cyber advisor to the secretary of defense, said during testimony on Capitol Hill.
Taking the parallel versus sequential route in the acquisition process, might speed up the way the Defense Department gets new systems into the hands of warfighters, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Climate change is literally warming the Arctic; figuratively, the region is becoming a theater of great power competition.
Russian forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine — where the bulk of the fighting is taking place — are suffering from poor command and control, low morale, and less than ideal logistics, a senior Defense Department official said.