WASHINGTON -- The United States Department of Defense has taken historic action to advance the application of 5G communications for America's warfighters.In October 2020, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Kratsios announced $600 million in award contracts to 15...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Defense and the Ministry of Defense of the Maldives held their inaugural Defense and Security Dialogue January 5 in Male, Maldives. Mr. Anthony Tata, performing the duties of under secretary of defense for policy, co-chaired the meeting alongside Maldivian...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- An initial shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech arrived at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 31, 2020, and inoculations began the same day.The vaccine is part of Operation Warp Speed, a national initiative to...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Heino Klinck and Mongolia Ministry of Defense State Secretary D. Gankhuyag met virtually to conduct the 17th annual U.S.-Mongolia Bilateral Consultative Council, Jan. 5 (Washington, D.C.) and Jan. 6 (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia). Mongolian...

CAMP CARROLL, South Korea -- Teams at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea (USAMMC-K), working in collaboration with the Defense Logistics Agency, began receiving, storing and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 25.USAMMC-K, the theater lead agent for medical materiel, exercised its...

U.S. Embassy in the Philippines -- During his 1946 inaugural address, President Manual Roxas told a newly independent Philippines and the world, “We have yet a greater bulwark today…the friendship and devotion of America.” For three quarters of a century, Americans and Filipinos have met and...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- The bridge was dark and quiet when Lt. j.g. Grace Miller, from Atlanta, Georgia, the officer of the deck, signed the first deck log entry of the New Year aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) on Jan. 1, 2021, but what was typically a...

WASHINGTON -- The Navy and the Connecticut Air National Guard on Monday will honor Connecticut native son Dan Crowley for fighting against the Japanese in the Philippines 75 years ago.Gregory J. Slavonic, who is performing the duties of the Navy undersecretary, will present Crowley with an honorary...

WASHINGTON -- With two vaccines for COVID-19 — one from Pfizer and one from Moderna — now available to Americans following emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration, Operation Warp Speed has been moving quickly to get those doses out to everyone who needs them, OWS's chief...