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Washington, October 05, 2021.- The Coast Guard cutter Healy and its crew are on a multipurpose mission taking them through the Arctic as they circumnavigate North America via the Northwest Passage and the Panama Canal. Coast Guard officials say the deployment aims to strengthen regional partnerships and support scientific explorationContinuar Leyendo

The Defense Logistics Agency awarded six contracts with a combined maximum value of just over $2.78 billion for up to 150 million at-home and 400 million point-of-care COVID-19 test kits in support of White House initiatives to defeat COVID-19. Washington, October 03, 2021.- DLA Troop Support Medical Director of CustomerContinuar Leyendo

The Taliban remains dangerous and is harboring al-Qaida, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Washington, September 30, 2021.- Army Gen. Mark A. Milley told the panel that when President Joe Biden was inaugurated in January the situation in Afghanistan was at a stalemateContinuar Leyendo

«We helped build a state, but we could not forge a nation,» Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III told the Senate Armed Services Committee today, encapsulating America’s 20-year involvement in Afghanistan. Washington, September 28,2021.- Austin gave context to U.S. decisions in Afghanistan and also detailed U.S. actions during the fallContinuar Leyendo

The Defense Department hopes, within the decade, to have a meshed network of low Earth orbit satellites — linked together and to warfighters — providing real-time global awareness of missile threats and the ability to respond. Washington, September 28, 2021.- However, that goal was once considered cost prohibitive, said theContinuar Leyendo

The United States is a global superpower and this means global reach. Washington, September 24, 2021.- «There isn’t a scrap of Earth that we can’t reach out and touch when we need to,» Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said during a press conference in Qatar on Sept. 7.Continuar Leyendo

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III sat down at the Pentagon today to discuss how the enhanced trilateral security partnership with the two nations and the United Kingdom will move forward. Washington, September 22, 2021.- Morrison, who met with President Joe Biden yesterday, isContinuar Leyendo

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks met with U.K. National Security Advisor Sir Stephen Lovegrove to reaffirm the U.S.-U.K. bilateral relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, a Defense Department spokesman said. Washington, September 21, 2021.- «I met with U.K. National Security Advisor Sir Stephen Lovegrove yesterday toContinuar Leyendo

The Australia-U.S. alliance is stronger today than it ever has been, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said today, and the steps taken during the Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations at the State Department are aimed at keeping it that way. Washington, 19 de Septiembre de 2021.- Austin was joined inContinuar Leyendo