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The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday that more than 460 companies have expressed interested in winning government semiconductor subsidy funding in a bid to boost the country’s competitiveness with China’s science and technology efforts. From …
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and HII have been awarded multiyear procurement contracts to build nine Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for the U.S. Navy. According to the Pentagon’s announcements, last week, HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division was awa…
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Next-Generation Interceptor — a weapon being developed to to replace the current ground-based interceptors — has reached a massive milestone. According to a press release from Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s No.1 weapo…
The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (JCREW) Increment One Block One (I1B1) program has achieved full operational capability (FOC) ahead of schedule, the U.S. Navy Program Executive Office for Unmann…
Late last month, the Transportation Security Administration renewed and updated its security directive aimed at enhancing the cybersecurity of oil and natural gas pipelines. The reissued guidance, known as Security Directive (SD) Pipeline-2021-02D Pipe…
The U.S. Army’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) has been approved by the Department of Defense for full-rate production. In a statement to Defense News, a spokesperson for the service’s Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems said the…
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from CNBC: On Tuesday, the Biden administration put the final nail in the coffin for incandescent light bulbs, the result of a decade-plus-long legislative path. The journey began in 2007 when the En…
Last week, the Army accepted delivery of the first 20 prototypes of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System 1.2 variant. The milestone is the latest step in the process of getting the most advanced version of the situational awareness system in the h…
The 1st Marine Aircraft Wing has announced that Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 3, hosted a unit-led ceremony to commemorate the squadron’s years of dedicated effort and work to reach Initial Operational Capability with the MQ-9A Extended…
The US government’s credit rating has been downgraded following concerns over the state of the country’s finances and its debt burden. From a report: Fitch, one of three major independent agencies that assess creditworthiness, cut the rating from the t…