Pentagon Must Boost Testing for Weapons, Warfighting Capabilities: Report
A nonpartisan government watchdog is calling on the Department of Defense to update its testing policies so U.S. troops can acquire weapons at a quicker scale. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent government agency, published a new report on Thursday highlighting gaps in current weapons acquisitions. It encourages DoD to adopt 13 recommendations to […]
Army Reverses Course and Resumes Remote Entrance Exam Testing After Cutting Off Funding
The Army has reversed its decision to halt travel funding that enabled potential recruits to take the military entrance exam at remote locations and high schools — just a week after cutting off the funding and endangering the program, officials confirmed. Military.com was the first to report that on March 7, reacting to a Pentagon […]
Thousands of Potential Recruits Could Lose Access to Military Entrance Exam Testing with Program Shuttered
Thousands of potential applicants — including high school students — may face challenges in taking the military’s entrance exam after a pair of programs that put testers in high schools and remote testing sites were halted last week. Marshall Smith, a spokesman for Military Entrance Processing Command, on Wednesday confirmed the halt to the programs […]
Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East
The Army has sent at least one “robot dog” armed with an artificial intelligence-enabled gun turret to the Middle East for testing as a fresh counter-drone capability for U.S. service members. Photos published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service last week show a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal-Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or Q-UGV, armed with […]
A Maryland Housing Development Is Going Up Beside Army Land Polluted by Bio-Weapon Testing
A new housing development is going up near Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the Army is considering a series of engineering efforts to protect the homeowners after it contaminated adjacent land throughout much of the 20th century by testing biological weapons. Many of the homes next to what is known as the Area B section of […]
Military Testing Reveals Hundreds of Drinking Water Wells Contaminated with PFAS in Washington
Hundreds of drinking water wells near military bases or other facilities in Washington have been contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, according to a Seattle Times analysis of the past two years of test results published by the military. So far, the military has confirmed the release of these “forever chemicals,” named for […]
The US Military is So Worried About Generic Pills That it Reportedly Wants to do its Own Testing to Make Sure They’re Safe
Read the original article on Business Insider. The U.S. military is reportedly planning to take extra steps to test the quality of the generic drugs it buys for service members and their families. To do that, the Department of Defense is talking with Valisure, a lab that specializes in checking the quality of pharmaceuticals, Bloomberg’s Anna Edney and […]