Congress Halts Army Plan to Close Museums Holding Irreplaceable History

Congress Halts Army Plan to Close Museums Holding Irreplaceable History

The U.S. Army has frozen plans to close more than two dozen of its museums after Congress passed legislation barring the service from doing so without formal justification and lawmaker approval. The U.S. Army Center of Military History said in a statement it “has paused all previously announced changes to the Army Museum Enterprise, including […]

Pentagon Holding Back on Hypersonic Weapons' Risks, GAO Says

The Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., shown in 2011.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon isn’t giving Congress and the public a full assessment of its difficulties and challenges developing hypersonic weapons to counter those already deployed by China and Russia, according to congressional auditors. Despite test failures with Air Force and Army systems that were supposed to become operational already, the Pentagon “is not comprehensively […]