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Leucadia resident Barbara McQuiston was up for a top Defense Department position in 2012 when she enrolled in culinary school

USNI News Navy Creating ‘Sandbox’ to Evaluate Work from Tech Companies May 24, 2021 2:57 PM U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alberto Ramirez, an infantryman with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division uses a communication system during Urban Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 (ANTX18) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 19, 2018. Marines are testing next generation technologies to provide the opportunity to assess the operational utility of emerging technologies and engineering innovations that improve the Marine’s survivability, lethality and connec...

This week in Congress: More questions about the Afghanistan drawdown 17 hours ago U.S. special operations service members conduct combat operations in support of Operation Resolute Support in Southeast Afghanistan in April 2019. (Sgt. Jaerett Engeseth/Army) Congress’ review of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan continues this week with a series of hearings on the topic featuring Defense and State Department officials. On Thursday, David Helvey, acting assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the ...

By Lauren C. Williams Apr 21, 2021 The Pentagon has launched a new steering group dedicated to synchronizing innovation efforts, according to the Pentagon’s top research official. Barbara McQuiston, DOD’s acting under secretary of defense for research and engineering, told senators that the new steering group would “articulate changes that need to take place internally in order to become more rapid in adaptation of technology and to be more flexible in being able to do that.” “What we’re doing in innovation is looking across the DOD and transforming a lot of the processes in order...

The Pentagon revealed last year that such weapons were at least under consideration. Hypersonic missiles are widely seen as a weapon of the future. The United States is developing its own, with the Air Force’s ARRW hypersonic missile failing its first test earlier this month. A recent report stated that the U.S. military is working on seventy different hypersonic weapon efforts, for which it has requested $15 billion in funding. ARRW stands for Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, and it has been described as “a boost-glide type hypersonic missile that is supposed to reach Mach 20 speeds b...