In today’s military, it’s not enough anymore just to be able to shoot the guy who is trying to shoot you. With what military planners call “unmanned aircraft systems” (UAS) — drones — rapidly revolutionizing age-old warfighting theories, the Army wants counter-drone capabilities to be in the toolkit of even the lowliest private on the …
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon will deploy more than 1,100 troops to five vaccination centers in what will be the first wave of increased military support for the White House campaign to get more Americans inoculated against COVID-19. President Joe Biden has called for setting up 100 mass vaccination centers around the country within a …
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Imagine being able to turn exposed muscle cells into skin cells to help cover a wound. Scientists at the Air Force Research Lab are looking at ways to “reprogram” a person’s cells to heal wounds more than five times faster than normal, the service said in a Jan. 28 release. In partnership with the AFRL, …
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The Biden Homeland Security Department has concluded that eight agreements signed by the Trump administration giving states and localities a stake in federal immigration enforcement are “void, not binding and unenforceable,” and is moving to cancel them as quickly as possible, according to a memo seen by The Washington Times. The Jan. 29 document from …
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WASHINGTON — The cost of deploying about 26,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. Capitol in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riot is nearly $500 million, U.S. military officials said Thursday. The deployment brought troops in from all 50 states and four territories as law enforcement agencies tried to lock down the …
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