Pentagon's New Role for JIEDDO Counter-IED Agency The Joint IED Defeat Organization will have its funding and personnel cut in a diminished role at the Defense Department.
Carter Awards DoD’s Improvised Explosive Device Agency Unit Award Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the Joint Meritorious Unit Award to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat...
Pentagon Identifies Sailor Killed Supporting Mosul Offensive The DoD has released the name of a decorated sailor killed in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Iraq.
1st Cav Soldiers Among 4 Americans Killed in Afghanistan The U.S. Defense Department identified the two soldiers killed by a suicide bomber at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Scholarship Fund to Honor Soldier Killed by IED in Iraq Friends have started a scholarship fund to honor Army 1st Lt. Weston Lee.
NATO Soldier Killed in Suicide Attack North of Kabul A NATO soldier was killed in a suicide attack a day after two U.S. troops in a NATO convoy were killed near Kandahar.
Pentagon Identifies Soldier Killed in Iraq from 10th Mountain Division Spc. Alexander W. Missildine, 20, died Oct. 1 as a result of injuries sustained when an IED detonated near his convoy.
Deadliest IED Back on Iraq Battlefield The roadside bomb that killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq last week was an explosively formed penetrator, a top U.S. general said.
ISR Task Force's Murky Future Gets Clearer The Pentagon is looking to preserve a host of rapid-development programs and war zone-specific procurement practices.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...