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Defence contractors including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to attend classified meeting in Washington on Wednesday.

In a memo issued April 4, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said savings and operational efficiency can be achieved in other ways.

Hicks said they must report at least two times a year to the Defense Executive Resale Board on their cooperative efforts and also keep the deputy assistant secretary of defense for military community and family policy apprised of their efforts. To continue to find savings and efficiency, Hicks directed the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness to "concentrate future efforts on facilitating collaboration" between the four systems. According to Hicks, reviews of the proposal have shown that cost savings and efficiency improvements can be achieved in other ways that don't risk the stores' contributions to the military community.

Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin jointly produce Javelins, while Raytheon makes Stingers. Other top weapons makers are Boeing, Northrop Grumman, ...

The Defense Department's No. 2 civilian official said Tuesday the Biden administration plans to ask Congress for money to pay for U.S. troop deployments in ...

“Given that we’re in the midst of operations now, those operations may continue for some time as they are,” she said. Congress finalized a $1.5 trillion spending bill last month that provides $13.6 billion in new aid for the Ukraine crisis. He previously wrote for Foreign Policy, Al-Monitor, Al Jazeera English and IPS News. We make sure to capture those costs, and we’re working with Congress.” “Congress on a bipartisan basis has been very forward leaning in terms of its interest in making sure they can help us be whole against those requirements,” she said at a roundtable with reporters. Asked about the potential for additional funding to respond to the crisis, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said the Pentagon is working with Congress to backfill the cost of U.S. forces surged to Eastern Europe. Those forces were not included in the FY23 budget request, she said.

The next aid package could be worth $750 million and include Mi-17 helicopters, sea drones, and gear to protect against chemical, biological and nuclear ...

The last independent newsletter in Russia suspended its operations. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration have pleaded for more sophisticated weapons to counter the Russian military’s technological advantages. How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can help support the Ukrainian people as well as what people around the world have been donating. Photos: Post photographers have been on the ground from the very beginning of the war — here’s some of their most powerful work. Russia has used an array of weapons against Ukraine, some of which have drawn the attention and concern of analysts.

They talked about all the things that the United States is doing to help Ukraine defend itself. Minister Reznikov thanked the secretary for that support and ...

But I would just like to remind that, and you certainly can't make up for the loss of a soldier or an individual civilian, so many innocent people have been killed, you can't replace that, you can't make up for that. That's not just due to the fact that the Russians failed on their own accord, and they did. Minister Reznikov reinforced that again today, it’s the kinds of things that they know how to use, or if they don't, like the switchblade, we're getting them what they need to know to use that. We don't have a definitive conclusion one way or another and I think we just need to talk about where things are and now where things might be in the future. There's been so much focus on the equipment that's been sent in, are the forces - are they still able to go in with the same strength that they had at the beginning of the war? What are some of the thought processes that you guys are going through when you weigh response to a chemical attack? And this is something we have had justified reason to be concerned about that in the prosecution of this war that this could be a tactic they might employ, which is to try to mask a potential more serious chemical attack with riot control agents. Are these types of efforts to pay victims or family members of victims, is that going to be part of this review process and is DOD looking to come up with a better way that allows it to make these types of payments? Interestingly -- I mean I'm actually glad you asked the question because it is still relevant to us.And for a lot of reasons, not just about what happened at the end of August, and no we don't have an update on the Ahmadi family, but I can tell you we haven't given up on this idea of trying to get them back to the United States and certainly do right by them financially. Our assessment today is that Mariupol is still contested, and that the Ukrainians are still fighting to defend Mariupol from a Russian seizure of it. And was the Pentagon ever able to get weapons to Mariupol much like it was able to get fortified defenses to Kyiv in time? Do you track if the security assistance actually provided is being transferred to the east and is it not kind of (inaudible)?