NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – In the age of hypersonic weapons, commanders will have milli-seconds to act on information gathered from the data flooding in during combat, a former director of command...
https://news.usni.org/2024/04/10/jadc2-network-clear-to-managing-forces-across-the-world-says-panel
The following is the March 27, 2024, Government Accountability Office report, Military Readiness: Comprehensive Approach Needed to Address Service Member Fatigue and Manage Related Efforts. From ...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/27/gao-report-on-fatigue-in-u-s-military
The U.S. military will perform a live fire test of its prototype for a joint fires network in the Valiant Shield exercise later this year, a top official told lawmakers this week. Adm. John Aquil...
The following is the March 13, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S. Policy, and Options for Congress. From the report On October 7, 2023...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/14/report-to-congress-on-israel-and-hamas-conflict-u-s-policy-options
Flights of U.S. and Japanese MV-22B Osprey flights could resume as early Thursday, the Japanese Ministry of Defense said in a Wednesday statement. The announcement follows a Friday MOD joint pres...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/13/japanese-v-22-flights-could-start-as-early-as-thursday-says-mod
The following is the March 8, 2024, Congressional Research Service report General and Flag Officers in the U.S. Armed Forces: Background and Considerations for Congress. From the report In the ex...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/12/report-to-congress-on-general-and-flag-officers
Throw out the budget-making process that has been in place in the Pentagon since the Kennedy administration for a “defense resourcing system” to tie spending to strategy, was the key recommen...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/08/pentagon-budget-panel-outlines-options-for-acquisition-reform
After more than three months probing the fatal V-22 Osprey crash that killed eight airmen off the coast of Japan, investigators say they know what failed aboard the Air Force tilt-rotor, but they...
The following is the Feb. 28, 2024 Congressional Research Service report, Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress. From the report The emergence over the past deca...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/08/report-to-congress-on-great-power-competition-9
The following is the March 6, 2024, Implementation Plan for the Recommendations from the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform’s Interim Report. From the report S...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/07/report-from-pentagon-budget-reform-commission
The following is the March 6, 2024, Congressional Budget Office report: How the Military’s Basic Allowance for Housing Compares With Civilian Housing Costs. From the report The U.S. military ha...
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/06/cbo-report-on-military-basic-housing-allowance
Strategic Command’s commander pledged to “ensure there is no gap” between the delivery of the Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines and the complete retirement of the Navy’s leg of ...
The long-awaited overhaul of the idle attack submarine USS Boise (SSN-764) is in jeopardy if Congress does not pass a budget, the Navy’s number-two civilian told reporters Wednesday. Should the...
The French ambassador to the U.S. warned a “real war is possible” for NATO countries on the border with Russia. Laurent Bili, speaking during a Washington Post online event Tuesday, connected...
The following is the Feb. 9, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report The United States has actively pursued the develo...
https://news.usni.org/2024/02/16/report-to-congress-on-hypersonic-weapons-12
SAN DIEGO – The Marine Corps will soon test a prototype logistics supply drone inspired by drug smuggling narco subs, a service official said Tuesday. The upcoming month-long Project Convergenc...
https://news.usni.org/2024/02/13/marine-to-test-logistics-drone-inspired-by-drug-running-narco-subs
Discovery of a cockroach infestation on the heels of reports of black mold in a Camp Lejeune, N.C., barracks prompted the chairman of a key House panel to say, “I want Marines doing bad things ...
https://news.usni.org/2024/02/07/house-panel-questions-pentagon-on-military-housing-problems
The following is the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) 2023 annual report. It was released on Feb. 1, 2024. From the report In 2023 this office celebrated 40 years of ...
https://news.usni.org/2024/02/01/pentagons-director-operational-test-evaluation-2023-annual-report
An air base in the Philippines is set to receive a major upgrade to accommodate U.S. aircraft under a plan to strengthen deterrence against China. Already the site of many U.S.-funded improvement...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Marine Corps’ first new armored infantry landing craft in more than 50 years is almost ready to deploy, the service’s number two officer said on Thursday. The firs...
Identifying specific battlefield challenges – such as overcoming layered standoff weapons and securing theater entry – will be key for the U.S. and U.K. militaries when defining concepts to o...
https://news.usni.org/2024/01/25/new-study-outlines-parth-for-u-s-u-k-human-machine-teaming
Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) deployed this week from San Diego, Calif., with a detachment of C-2A Greyhounds from the East Coast filling in for the grounded CV-22B Ospreys, US...
https://news.usni.org/2024/01/12/carrier-uss-theodore-roosevelt-deploys-amid-v-22-grounding
The following is the National Defense Industrial Strategy that was released on Jan. 11, 2024. From the introduction of the report With the publication of the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NOS),...
https://news.usni.org/2024/01/12/pentagon-industrial-base-strategy
In his New Year message, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Taiwan will be reunified with China. Meanwhile, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met with his military commanders on the last day of 2023 and...
https://news.usni.org/2024/01/01/xi-jinping-pledges-reunification-with-taiwan-in-new-years-message
Effective Thursday, commanders will no longer decide if a case involving murder, sexual assault, child sexual assault and intimate partner violence should go to court-martial. Instead, special tr...
Japan’s Defense Ministry has secured funding to build two new Aegis destroyers, the country’s defense minister announced Tuesday. In a press conference, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said he...
https://news.usni.org/2023/12/20/japan-locks-in-funding-for-2-new-aegis-destroyers
The Senate has cleared the last slate of 11 four-star general and flag officers whose nominations had been blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R, Ala.), for months. On Tuesday, the Senate used a vo...
The MV-22B Osprey squadron embarked aboard the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group has special permission to operate the grounded tilt-rotor in case of emergencies, the Marine Corps told USNI News on F...
The No. 1 challenge facing U.S. military recruiting is the American public’s lack of familiarity with its armed services, the Pentagon’s and services’ civilian personnel leaders testified W...
The following is the Inspector General of the Department of the Air Force investigation into the disclosure of classified information by Airman 1st Class Jack D. Teixeira over an online game chat...
https://news.usni.org/2023/12/12/air-force-investigation-into-leak-of-classified-information