Celebrity chef Tyler Florence, host of Food Network’s “The Great Food Truck Race,” and other popular culinary reality shows took his ingredients to the galleys of the USS Tripoli in San Francisco, Calif., for the Navy’s first ever Chow Line Challenge.
The Navy is extending the service life of 12 aging destroyers as the service balances the need to keep ships at sea with the time it takes for new ships to join the fleet.
The findings reveal procurement missteps that allowed Boeing to overcharge for various components of the C-17 Globemaster III. The Air Force paid over 80 times more than it should have for soap dispensers on the cargo planes, a significant part of nearly $1 million in wasteful spending.
The El Segundo, Ca., satellite plant makes large satellites for commercial, government and military customers. In 2018 Boeing acquired Millennium Space Systems, which is also based in El Segundo and has received defense contracts for satellites to detect new threats such as hypersonic missiles.
Blue Origin is flying its own hardware as a payload. Even though it doesn’t have a paying customer, a successful flight would mark the first of two required certification flights needed by the U.S. Space Force so it could potentially be awarded lucrative future national security missions alongside SpaceX and ULA.
The next year will see the development of projects aimed at expanding what the center has to offer. One project for the next four to five years will be a complete redesign of the Soldier Experience gallery, which is in the main public building of the Army Heritage and Education Center.
An Army aviation system is back at its old home at Coleman Barracks in Mannheim, Germany.
The former commander of U.S. troops in South Korea delivered a stark warning this week about China’s ability to weaponize its economic influence over South Korea.
Apache helicopter gunships let loose this week at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex as hundreds of U.S. and South Korean troops took part in drills near the Demilitarized Zone focused on tactical teamwork and readiness.
Three off-duty Navy sailors stranded in a ramshackle sailboat off Hawaii’s coast last month got help from an improbable source: three soldiers in an an Army speed boat.