DoD Acknowledges Domestic Military Drone Use
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The Pentagon admits operating military drone flights over US, fewer than 20 from 2006 to 2015, reports The Washington Times.
US Navy to give overweight sailors a second chance at fitness tests, reports The Telegraph.
These are the 11 most game-changing aircraft of the 21st century from the Business Insider.
China says its militarization in the South China Sea is purely defensive. USNI reports a US intelligence assessment says not so. A four-ship US strike group was followed by Chinese warships in the disputed South China Sea, reports the Navy Times.
Struggling to keep its B-21 strategic bomber on schedule, the Air Force tells Congress the penalty for breaking Northrop’s B-21 contract is $300 million, reports Flight Global.
Lockheed announces a voluntary layoff program designed to cut 1,000 mid-level positions, reports Inside Defense. The offer is available at Patuxent River, MD, as well as Fort Worth, TX; Marietta, GA; Palmdale, CA; Meridian, MS; Clarksburg, WV; and Edwards Air Force Base, CA., reports Inside Defense. Lockheed has cut 20,000 from 132,000 employees five years ago.
Wired reports on remodeling an aircraft carrier.
Navy helicopters carried Air Force para-rescuemen to an Army reconnaissance plane that made a hard emergency landing in Iraq on Saturday, reports The Washington Post.
Why bombers are the key to nuke modernization, reports Breaking Defense, calling them a central tool to maintain a credible strategic deterrent.
Amazon to lease 20 Boeing 767s to expand its own delivery network, reports Bloomberg.
Rolls-Royce Corp. of Indianapolis, IN, is being awarded $47,515,467 for modification P00003 to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery, requirements contract (N00019-14-D-0016) to exercise an option to provide an estimated 37,015 flight hours of intermediate, depot-level maintenance, and related logistics support for approximately 223 in-service T-45 F405-RR-401 Adour engines. Work will be performed at the Naval Air Station Meridian, MS (47 percent); NAS Kingsville, TX (46 percent); NAS Pensacola, FL (6 percent); and NAS Patuxent River, MD (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2016. No funds will be obligated at time of award; funds will be obligated on individual delivery orders as they are issued. The Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River is the contracting activity.
