Dr. Steven Walker, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DARPA just awarded a $14 million task order to a technology company that provides engineering and technical solutions to national security organizations in support of U.S. aims to get a nuclear thermal rocket up and running to boost its ability to monitor the goings-on in Earth-moon space.

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Colonel Chris Karns, USAF, Director, U.S. Africa Command Public Affairs

The leader of a coup in Mali was U.S.-trained, but Africa Command says counterterrorism training remains vital in the region.

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Colonel Amy Ebitz, USMC Commanding Officer, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Camp LeJeune

Colonel Ebitz noted the milestone of a National Guard soldier who has become the first female to graduate from Special Operations trainings and complete Special Forces Qualification Course, as women now play important roles throughout the U.S. military.

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Chad Sbragia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China

The Chinese Navy is the largest in the world, with a fleet of more than 350 ships that include a fast-growing armada of destroyers, carriers and submarines, a reality which raises concerns with Pentagon and Navy weapons developers, according to a new Pentagon report.

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Lieutenant General JT Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, U.S. Space Force

Catching up or surging ahead of rivals in space comes down to a simple, self-evidence concept: speed, says Lieutenant General JT Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile Center.

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Barbara Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force

Exactly 112 years after the Wright Brothers delivered their first military aircraft, top Air Force leaders gathered with others to watch the latest flying vehicle—a car!

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Ellen Lord, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment

The Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter should finally go into full production by next March, said Ellen Lord, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.

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David Norquist, Deputy Secretary of Defense

The Defense Department is putting Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist in place to help oversee a new task force to investigate UFOs.

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Admiral Charles Richard, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command

Defining military deterrence in 2020 can be difficult, Admiral Charles Richard said, adding, “strategic deterrence is more than just nuclear deterrence, particularly now, today. It is non-kinetic space, cyber; it is your conventional piece of this,” and “all of this has to be integrated together.”

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General Frank McKenzie, USMC, Commander, United States Central Command

The commander of CENTCOM told an interviewer that the Afghan government is trying to do everything it can in negotiations with the Taliban, but the Taliban is still attacking Afghan forces across the country.

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