Air National Guard dangles $7,500 bonus for eligible reenlistments
In an effort to fill its ranks, the Air National Guard is appealing to eligible service members to remain in uniform with a $7,500 bonus in exchange for a three-year reenlistment. The “Summer Surge Incentive,” announced this week with other recruiting reforms, is open to...
Marine Corps hackathon announced for fall
The Marine Corps is bringing artificial intelligence developers together this fall to build tools that can be quickly refined or immediately moved into use, the service announced in an administrative message this week. The event, scheduled for Oct. 26-30 at the Naval Postgraduate School in...
Senate confirms new chief of space operations
The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess on Thursday as the next chief of space operations, making him the third officer to hold the position since the U.S. Space Force was established in 2019. Schiess will succeed Gen. Chance Saltzman, who has served as...
Pentagon ready to deploy Salesforce AI agents for admin tasks
The San Francisco-based Salesforce said that the Defense Department and the Army’s Human Resources Command approved its autonomous AI agents for a range of mission sets involving sensitive military information. In Wednesday’s announcements, the company explained that its Missionforce National Security platform received Impact Level...
An Air Force robot made the C-17 part no vendor would
A C-17 Globemaster III that was facing two years out of service is airborne again after the U.S. Air Force built a replacement part itself, using a robot. The airlifter, tail number 01-0194, assigned to the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio,...
Boeing wins first production contract for jet-powered JDAM
The U.S. Air Force has committed $75 million to an initial production run of a jet-powered guided bomb that can fly more than 300 nautical miles, Boeing said Wednesday. Boeing’s BSU-111/B Payload Delivery Unit is a wing-and-turbojet engine kit that converts a 500-pound Joint Direct...
