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Pentagon awards Australian rare earths miner Lynas $US120m contract to build plant in Texas

Lynas Rare Earths has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defence to build a processing facility in Texas.

ABC News · Jun 14, 2022

After subcommittees’ work, Pentagon funding remains a question mark

WASHINGTON — Last week, House Armed Services subcommittees approved their portions of the Pentagon’s annual policy bill, indicating support for a big pay raise for troops and some resistance to ship retirements. But the panels left the biggest question unresolved: how much defense funding to authorize.

Tribune News Service · Jun 13, 2022

Two Trump impeachment trials later, Rep. Zoe Lofgren will lead hearing on his Jan. 6 actions

WASHINGTON — Rep. Zoe Lofgren was at work on Capitol Hill each of the four times Congress moved to impeach a president in modern U.S. history, first as a staffer and later as representative — the only member with such experience.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 13, 2022

US Congress Calls for Boosting Regional Defense Against Iran

A group of bipartisan US lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to integrate regional countries' air defense systems to thwart Iran's threats. The "Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defense Act" would authorize the US Defense Department to cooperate with Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other regional…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 11, 2022

NASA is putting together a UFO team

The Pentagon has catalogued a number of UFO sightings over the past few decades. Now, NASA is getting involved

Salon · Jun 10, 2022

NASA UFO probe: Space agency scientists to investigate 'national security issue'

The experts will examine 'unidentified aerial phenomena' or UFOs in the latest sign of the seriousness with which the US government is taking the issue.

Daily Mirror · Jun 10, 2022

NASA announces a new investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena

NASA will fund a "no more than $100,000 study" looking at what astrophysical data exists with unexplained origins led by astrophysicist David Spergel.

Inverse · Jun 9, 2022

Marine Corps Osprey aircraft crashes in Southern California's Imperial County; at least 4 killed, source says

LOS ANGELES — A military aircraft crashed in Imperial County near the Arizona border Wednesday afternoon, killing four people, according to a federal source.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 9, 2022

Marine Corps Osprey tiltrotor aircraft crashes in Southern California's Imperial County, killing at least 4

LOS ANGELES — A military aircraft crashed in Imperial County near the Arizona border Wednesday afternoon, killing four people, according to reports.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 9, 2022

Pratt & Whitney and Lockheed Martin defend costly and troubled F-35 fighter jet and its engine

The chief financial officers of Raytheon Technologies Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. on Wednesday defended the F-35 fighter jet and its engine following another critical government report that said it too often fails to meet targets for mission capable rates.

Tribune News Service · Jun 8, 2022