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Labor shortage still pinching aerospace and defense sector
A new study found 70% of companies in the aerospace and defense sector saw increased turnover in the last 12 months.
Boeing’s cost overruns on KC-46 now exceed initial contract with US Air Force
Pressures on Boeing's commercial business during the pandemic have permeated the KC-46 program.
By Valerie Insinna
Excerpt from ‘Call Me Commander’ by Jeff Testerman and Daniel M. Freed
"Call Me Commander" shows how reporters revealed the U.S. Navy Veterans Association was a scam, and uncovered how the man who operated it was a Harvard Law School graduate and former U.S. Army intelligence officer who had been wanted since the 1980s.
By Jeff Testerman and Daniel Freed
Excerpt from ‘A Shot in the Moonlight’ by Ben Montgomery
"A Shot in the Moonlight" by Ben Montgomery is the true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow South.
By Ben Montgomery
Pennsylvania county will evaluate 9 mistakenly discarded military ballots
The local elections board in Luzerne County will carefully consider nine mistakenly discarded military ballots, which have been linked to specific voters.
9 discarded military ballots weren’t fraud, Pennsylvania election chief says
Workers in the elections office in Luzerne County are getting training on handling mailed-in military and overseas ballots, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said,
Probe into ‘discarded’ mail-in military ballots becomes campaign outrage fuel
The news release from a U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania was provocative: Nine mailed-in military ballots had been “discarded” by the local election office in a swing county of one of the most important presidential battleground states.
By Christina A. Cassidy, The Associated Press
Moving US F-16s from Germany will ripple far outside the Black Sea region
Former defense and military officials weighed in on the decision to transfer F-16s from Germany to Italy.
By Valerie Insinna and Aaron Mehta
Taliban warns Kabul against attacks on prisoners freed as part of Afghan peace talks
Ahead of an upcoming release of Taliban detainees held in Afghan prisons, the insurgent group warned the government in Kabul on Tuesday against any attacks on those released, saying such incidents would jeopardize the peace talks.
Afghan council frees 400 Taliban prisoners to set up peace talks laid out in deal with US
The move looks to bring the United States a little closer to bringing home its troops and ending its longest military engagement.
The US Space Force is getting an official second in command
A familiar face is set to become the service's first vice chief of space operations.
By Valerie Insinna