Space Command

Integrating the U.S. Space Command Into the Armed Forces System

By Samir Naqvi – Dec. 26, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence recently appeared at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to announce that the long-anticipated U.S. Space Command will become the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces by 2020. And while not yet confirmed by the Trump Administration, some draft documents leaked from the Department of Defense indicate that …

DoD Expands the Reach of its International Schools

By Troy Barnes – Dec. 17, 2018 The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is most often associated with wartime military action and ensuring the security of U.S. borders. But DoD’s many collateral missions encompass everything from promoting civilian cybersecurity to promoting educational innovations by building high-tech schools abroad and offering STEM scholarships to graduate students. Recently, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) …

President George H.W. Bush Leaves Powerful Military Legacy

By Samir Naqvi – Dec. 10, 2018 The United States last week laid to rest its last surviving presidential war hero — President George Herbert Walker Bush. One of the Navy’s youngest fighter pilots, Bush was shot down about 700 miles south of Japan during World War II. Of the nine young men who wound up in the Pacific after this …

How Direction Finding Systems Continue to Revolutionize Military Intelligence

By Troy Barnes – Dec. 3, 2018 For more than a century, direction finding systems have been one of the military’s key tools for detecting and intercepting enemy signals. But even with today’s technological advances, which have largely traded trench warfare for cyber warfare, directional finding systems have maintained their relevance. Learn more about how direction finding systems work and how they’ve …