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U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, joint force development director on the Joint Staff, has testified during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing for a possible promotion as head of U.S. Africa Command, DoD News reported Tuesday. Jim Garamone writes Waldhauser, who was nominated to serve as Africom commander in April, will …

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.N. Peacekeeping Force will likely assume a bigger role in missions to counter transregional conflicts, DoD News said Saturday. Jim Garamone writes Dunford spoke at a peacekeeping meeting during a visit to the U.N. headquarters in New York …

Navy Medicine posted an updated Zika virus mitigation guidance for U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel on Thursday through a Navadmin message. The Navy said Friday the updated Navadmin requires installation commanders to implement the defense secretary’s guidance to control virus-carrying mosquitoes at Navy installations and in housing areas while installation commanding officers …

U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, U.S. Central Command leader, has visited an army base in Turkey and met with U.S. Marine Corps EA-6 Prowler Squadron representatives as part of the general’s five-country trip, DoD News reported Friday. Votel said operations from the Incirlik Air Base that deploy to Syria work on a 24/7 basis and include air support for …

The first batch of midshipmen who took the cyber operations course at the U.S. Naval Academy will graduate on May 27, the U.S. Navy reported Monday. The Navy said the 27 graduates compose the inaugural class of the academic program, which covers areas such as computer architecture, programming, networks, data structures, information assurance, forensics and cryptography. The …

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to conduct field operations alongside a swarm of gun-wielding micro-drones, driverless cars and self-unloading supply aircraft, Marine Corps Times reported Tuesday. Matthew Schehl writes a panel of industry experts discussed at the Sea-Air-Space expo how U.S. troops could trust autonomous machines and develop strategies for drones that will potentially remove the need …

The Energy Department will add five military bases to join its solar jobs training program that works to help prepare transitioning service members find careers in the solar industry upon retirement from the military. DOE said Tuesday the department will also award a total of $10 million to fund 10 new projects …

NASA has selected the astronauts to join two missions scheduled for 2017 that will head to the orbiting laboratory in the International Space Station. NASA said Friday U.S. Navy Capt. Scott Tingle will participate in his first space flight for the Expedition 53 to launch in September 2017 with fellow U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer; Russia’s Ivan Vagner, …

U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Jackson, chief of the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Joint Information Environment Solutions Division, addressed common misperceptions regarding DISA’s Joint Regional Security Stacks program. Jackson spoke at the 2016 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Defensive Cyber Operation symposium in an effort to address questions about the power of the …

Rear Adm. David Lane, former U.S. Marine Corps medical officer and director of health services, has been appointed as the director for the Defense Health Agency‘s national capital region medical directorate. NCR MD works to exercise authority, direction and control over the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Joint …