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Black base worker faced racism, told to keep quiet: lawsuit

Wheels was the only Black member of the Skils’kin contract crew at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, which oversees 150 Minuteman nuclear missiles in underground silos in Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado.

4 years ago

A DARPA competition to build underground robot teams to assist troops enters its final challenge this week

Teams of civilians are testing their ground and aerial robots in places where troops would have difficulty going.

4 years ago

Army team wants to put 3D models of target areas into soldiers’ goggles

“It might not be Call of Duty-level graphics and visualization. But it’s going to be darn good," said one Army officer involved in the effort.

By Kyle Rempfer

5 years ago

Marine arrested at airport after bomb joke in security line (no one laughed)

Who doesn’t make a good bomb joke when familial merriment is on the horizon?

By J.D. Simkins

6 years ago

The Army wants a way to map underground tunnels using ground robots and drones

The Army's Rapid Equipping Force expects models or prototypes ready from industry in 30 days.

7 years ago

Tunnel warfare will test the Air Force’s ability to spy — and bomb — a hidden enemy

The possible emergence of a new era of tunnel warfare will challenge the Air Force to think of new ways to find, and defeat, a hidden enemy.

By Stephen Losey

7 years ago