The biennial Talisman Sabre will bring together a record number of troops from 19 countries for joint training across Australia and Papua New Guinea.

President Donald Trump was talking to U.S. Rep. Dale Strong when he seemed to confirm U.S. Space Command’s headquarters was coming to Huntsville, Ala.

The Air Force Aid Society this month added nine categories to the list of needs for which airmen, guardians and their families can seek interest-free loans or grants — including mental health counseling and domestic violence relocation.

A U.S. Space Force officer has been placed on administrative leave, pending separation, under the Defense Department’s new ban on transgender service members, ending her more than 22-year military career.

New military construction would be needed to support a permanent U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, a government watchdog found as lawmakers continue to argue over the final location of the combatant command.

Friday’s mission to launch a GPS satellite is the second that was originally awarded to United Launch Alliance but transferred to SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract. ULA’s delays with its new Vulcan rocket have helped make SpaceX the reliable provider.

Many of the civilians who work for the service, which is the smallest military branch, have highly technical skills and provide expertise that the Space Force does not have among its active-duty service members, the service’s chief of space operations said.

Hawaii conservation groups are voicing their opposition to plans by the U.S. Space Force to conduct cargo rocket testing at Johnston Atoll, a national wildlife refuge in the Pacific.

Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said last week that planning to incorporate space-focused Air National Guard missions into the active duty was underway.

The Pentagon has ordered senior leaders to pull and review all library books at military educational institutions that address diversity, critical race theory or gender ideology by May 21.