The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act that passed both the House and Senate would authorize the Defense Health Agency to manage over 400 military hospitals and clinics that the Air Force, Army and Navy
MoreThe U.S. Army will test an armored multipurpose vehicle demonstrator BAE Systems built as part of a contract to replace the military branch’s fleet of M113 armored personnel carriers. BAE was awarded a potential $1.2 billion contract in
MoreThe National Institutes of Health has appointed James Gilman, a retired U.S. Army major general, as the first CEO of NIHâs clinical research center in a move that takes effect January 2017. NIH said
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended the Defense Department define the role of chief military officers and deputy chief military officers in the militaryt’s strategic planning process. According to a report published Wednesday
MoreThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program that seeks to help small-unit ground combat forces to control multiple unmanned air and ground vehicles. DARPA said Wednesday it aims to develop and demonstrate more than 100 swarm tactics
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Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tennessee) has been selected to serve as chairman of the House Veteransâ Affairs Committee beginning next session, Military Times reported Friday. Leo Shane III writes Roe will succeed Rep.
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The U.S. Army has broken ground on a new facility at Fort Gordon in Georgia designed to combine the service branchâs cyber, education, training and capability development operations. Army Secretary Eric Fanning and Lt.
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Brig. Gen. William Cole, program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation at the U.S. Army, has said that the service branch will launch a project to construct a new cyber training range for offensive
MoreA group of more than 200 U.S. sailors, airmen and soldiers worked with the Operational Test Command at West Fort Hood in Texas to test the service members’ ability to respond to
MoreHouse and Senate lawmakers have reached a compromise on a bill that would allocate $619 billion in defense budget for fiscal year 2017, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. writes
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