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Three years after the suicide bomber attack at Afghanistan’s Abbey Gate that killed 13 U.S. service personnel and about 170 Afghan civilians, the network behind the perpetrator is “pretty degraded” but not eliminated, the Pentagon’s civilian commando chief said.

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U.S. still hunts attackers who killed Americans during Afghan exit

August 24, 2024 at 10:45 a.m.

Three years after the suicide bomber attack at Afghanistan’s Abbey Gate that killed 13 U.S. service personnel and about 170 Afghan civilians, the network behind the perpetrator is “pretty degraded”...

Defense secretary warns U.S. military at risk by Senate block over abortions

May 10, 2023 at 3:12 p.m.

The U.S. military faces "unnecessary and unprecedented" risk from a Republican senator's block on officer promotions aimed at protesting the Pentagon's abortion policy, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. Austin detailed...

Congress orders Pentagon to review use of label to keep public from learning about bad news

January 4, 2023 at 2:33 p.m.

Congress has given the Defense Department until the end of January to look into whether bureaucrats are overusing a document designation known as "Controlled Unclassified Information" to keep the public...

Microsoft’s army goggles left U.S. soldiers with nausea, headaches in test

October 14, 2022 at 3:18 p.m.

U.S. soldiers using Microsoft Corp.'s new goggles in their latest field test suffered "mission-affecting physical impairments" including headaches, eyestrain and nausea, according to a summary of the exercise compiled by...

Launch-and-landing failures add to $13 billion Gerald R. Ford’s troubles

July 27, 2019 at 1:27 a.m.

The Navy's costliest warship, the $13 billion Gerald R. Ford, had 20 failures of its aircraft launch-and-landing systems during operations at sea, according to the Pentagon's testing office. The previously...

Faulty bomb elevators on the USS Gerald R. Ford making aircraft carrier deal difficult

July 27, 2019 at 6:36 a.m.

The new head of the Senate Armed Services panel says he's leery of backing the Pentagon's plan to buy two aircraft carriers in one contract so long as contractor Huntington...

Navy’s $11 billion carrier falling short on reducing labor costs

July 31, 2019 at 6:44 p.m.

Huntington Ingalls Industries, the sole U.S. builder of aircraft carriers, continues to fall short of the Navy's demand to cut labor expenses to stay within an $11.39 billion cost cap...

The Navy said it needed more Boeing Super Hornets. Trump is seeking 24 in the budget.

August 6, 2019 at 11:36 a.m.

President Donald Trump's fiscal 2019 budget will request 24 Super Hornet jets built by Boeing, reversing an Obama administration decision to stop buying the fighter after this year, according to...

The U.S. Navy wants to delay “shock testing” the USS Gerald R. Ford for 6 years

August 6, 2019 at 12:12 p.m.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is weighing a Navy request to delay for at least six years the shock testing intended to determine how well its new $12.9 billion aircraft carrier...

Lockheed F-35’s reliability progress stalled, tester says

August 4, 2019 at 8:18 p.m.

Efforts to improve the reliability of Lockheed Martin's F-35 are "stagnant," undercut by problems such as aircraft sitting idle over the last year awaiting spare parts from the contractor, according...

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