A Defense Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely with the media, said Friday that there were three attacks by Iran-backed militias on U.S. facilities in Iraq and Syria.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/11/17/israel-poised-to-expand-ground-offensive-beyond-northern-gaza-strip/

Amazon Web Services on Monday announced its Modular Data Center, a cloud offering now available to Defense Department customers operating in austere, low-latency conditions, such as battlefields and areas in crisis.

Source: https://www.nextgov.com/technology-news/2023/02/aws-touts-modular-data-center-defense-department/382875/

But a Pentagon spokesman raised the possibility that the Defense Department could eventually declassify and release video it has of the collision.

Source: https://capitolhillblue.com/node/93920

Congress has also placed language in more than one of the annual defense policy bills, calling for the Defense Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a human health assessment.

Source: https://www.govexec.com/defense/2023/03/pentagon-halt-use-firefighting-foam-contains-pfas-cleanup-costs-mount/384170/

From 1898 until the late 1960s, however, the current airport location was a military installation, first an army outpost and then, after WWII, Olmstead Air Force Base, which housed both the air base and other Defense Department operations.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahlovich/2023/01/25/dont-fret-about-empty-office-space-repurpose-it/

“If these instructors want to play King of the Hill to improve fitness, they do not need a Defense Department pamphlet filled with silly rules.”

Source: https://www.wnd.com/2023/12/throwback-u-s-army-spent-20000-publishing-rules-kids-game/

In briefings, State and Defense Department officials have described the balloon as having an inflated envelope about 200 feet high, carrying an instrument payload about the size of a small jetliner.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2023/0210/The-spy-balloon-that-gripped-a-nation-and-how-it-may-affect-China-and-US?icid=rss

In November, the USS Mississippi made a port visit to the western Australian city of Perth, where it conducted training with members of the Royal Australian Navy, the US Defense Department said.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/national-world/cnn-national/2023/04/05/in-the-dark-depths-of-the-pacific-us-submarines-patrol-with-an-eye-fixed-firmly-on-china/

“I told the Defense Department I wanted to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate,” Mr Biden told reporters this week.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/china-chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-video-pentagon-b2278711.html

Of the four action items listed in the letter, Defense Department leaders can point to some progress.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition/2023/06/industry-leaders-band-together-to-ask-dod-for-acquisition-reform/

Slotkin, a former CIA analyst and Defense Department official, largely has the Democratic Senate primary field to herself.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/new-2024-headaches-for-house-democrats/article_73132b2e-140e-51b4-ad9d-d708b9b33eb9.html

The Daily Signal asked the State Department, the Defense Department, and the director of national intelligence about the overdue reports and whether they have communicated with the appropriate congressional committees about their noncompliance.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/18/biden-admin-failing-comply-legislation-taiwan-gop-senators-say/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biden-admin-failing-comply-legislation-taiwan-gop-senators-say

The Defense Department estimated in 2016 that the “total cleanup liability” — only a portion of which applies to PFAS cleanup — was $27.3 billion.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/28/inside-the-pentagons-painfully-slow-effort-to-clean-up-decades-of-pfas-contamination/

The Defense Department is spending $1.5 billion over 5 years on AI, and final yr Congress added one other $200 million.

Source: https://basquiatstrings.co.uk/chatgpt-has-thrown-gasoline-on-fears-of-a-u-s-china-arms-race-on-ai-bt-news

The Defense Department tapped Doug Beck as the new director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Tuesday.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition/2023/04/defense-innovation-unit-finds-new-director/

The office is seeking input on whether the proposed basic service meets or exceeds what the Defense Department offers now, and if it should include additional capabilities.

Source: https://spacenews.com/commerce-department-outlines-plans-for-basic-space-traffic-management-service/

The package pulls $425 million from existing Defense Department stocks, and $1.75 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds.

Source: https://azeritimes.com/2023/02/04/us-announces-new-2-17b-security-assistance-package-for-ukraine/

“There is an absolutely clear awareness this can be considered a brain health threat,” said Kathy Lee, director of casualty management for the Office of Health Affairs at the Defense Department, who oversees the initiative.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artillery-isis-pentagon.html

The U.S. Defense Department had previously recommended against sending the Abrams vehicles, arguing the German Leopard 2 tanks were better suited to the conflict.

Source: https://1010wcsi.com/fox-politics/us-evaluating-2-ukrainian-pilots-for-attack-aircraft-after-ukraine-pleas-for-f-16s-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-evaluating-2-ukrainian-pilots-for-attack-aircraft-after-ukraine-pleas-for-f-16s-repo

This is evident in contrast with a State Department fact sheet issued just three days earlier that dealt with using Presidential drawdown authority to release materiel from Defense Department stocks.

Source: https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/02/price-tag-protect-freedom-sovereignty-runs-billions-counting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=price-tag-protect-freedom-sovereignty-runs-billions-counting