Topic: Pentagon

Eyeing China, Pentagon plans larger, 'more lethal' navy

Eyeing China, Pentagon plans larger, 'more lethal' navy

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 17 06:35 AM

WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced Wednesday an ambitious plan to expand the US Navy with a range of unmanned and autonomous ships, submarines and aircraft to confront the growing maritime challenge from China. Read more »

Pentagon sticks with Microsoft for cloud computing contract

Pentagon sticks with Microsoft for cloud computing contract

Kate Conger, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 06 11:38 AM

The Defense Department on Friday reaffirmed its decision to award a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft, despite protests from Amazon, which had argued that President Donald Trump interfered to prevent it from winning the $10 billion contract.   Read more »

Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public

Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public

Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 24 11:35 AM

Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles. Read more »

US lawmakers aim to regulate UFO information

US lawmakers aim to regulate UFO information

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 24 08:09 PM

WASHINGTON - The US Senate intelligence committee is aiming to regulate a Pentagon UFO program so that the public is better informed of its activities and the country's intelligence branches can more easily share information. Read more »

US Navy confirms demotion of captain of virus-hit carrier

US Navy confirms demotion of captain of virus-hit carrier

Sylvie Lanteaume, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 20 09:35 AM

WASHINGTON, United States - The US Navy said Friday it would not reinstate the captain of a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, saying he was in part to blame for the severity of the crisis on the warship. Read more »

US Navy removes captain of aircraft carrier stricken by coronavirus

US Navy removes captain of aircraft carrier stricken by coronavirus

Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt and Emily Cochrane, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 03 08:38 AM

WASHINGTON — The US Navy removed the captain of the stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt on Thursday, only days after he implored his superior officers for more help as a coronavirus outbreak spread aboard the ship. Read more »

Pentagon halts overseas movement for US forces over coronavirus

Pentagon halts overseas movement for US forces over coronavirus

Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali, Reuters
Posted at Mar 26 04:56 AM

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Mark Esper has issued a stop movement order to the US military halting all travel and movement abroad for up to 60 days in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus through the ranks, Esper told Reuters on Wednesday. Read more »

US deploys submarine armed with 'low-yield' nuclear weapon

US deploys submarine armed with 'low-yield' nuclear weapon

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 05 03:38 PM

The W76-2 has an estimated explosive yield of five kilotons, compared to the 455-kiloton and 90-kiloton yields of nuclear warheads already deployed on US submarines, according to William Arkin and Hans Kristensen, writing on the Federation of American Scientists website. Read more »

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