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Special operations seeing growing demand amid planned cuts: commander – Defense One

Even as the U.S. Army makes plans to cut up to 3,000 special operations soldiers, the demand for such forces is growing around the world, …

Congress wants US Air Force to better explain reorganization plans – Defense News

But in a summary of the compromise version of the fiscal 2024 Defense Appropriations Act, publicly released Thursday, lawmakers said the Air Force …

William & Mary to name building after former Defense Secretary Robert Gates – WVEC

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will have an academic building named after him at William & Mary, the Williamsburg, Va. university …

Firefly Aerospace Selected to Demonstrate Launch and On-Orbit Services for U.S. Defense

… U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to conduct a trade study on its capabilities to rapidly launch Firefly’s Elytra …

US Congress releases $1.2 trillion spending package to avert shutdown – Reuters

After days of delay, U.S. congressional leaders unveiled a $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending measure for defense, homeland security and other …

Defense Innovation Unit would get major funding boost in spending bill – C4ISRNet

Northrop, DARPA envision moon ‘railroad’ for lunar logistics · Project Overmatch budget details too sensitive to share, Navy says · US Air Force …

Choo Choo on the Moon: US DoD, Northrop Grumman team up to build railways on the … – Firstpost

DARPA, the research and development wing of the US Department of … DARPA’s Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) mission.

‘Lunar railroad’ concept to put trains on Moon gets backing from US government

DARPA program manager Dr Michael Nayak said that there is a “large paradigm shift” coming over the next decade for the lunar economy. A lunar rail …

Northrop Grumman to Develop Concept for Lunar Railroad – WebWire

DARPA’s LunA-10 Capability Study is designed to quickly create new technology ideas shifting from individual scientific projects to shared …

DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First

Research agency DARPA tasked aerospace company Northrop Grumman with looking into the merits, risks, and costs of a lunar railway network.