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Adm. Christopher Grady

A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

Grady: DOD preparing for ‘hypersonics 2.0 and 3.0’ to understand operational concepts

“It gets back to the kill web. So, where do hypersonics fit into how we are going to fight?” Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…

Nov 22, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

Photo by Angie Hubert / University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame opens first-ever Mach 10 quiet wind tunnel for hypersonics testing

DefenseScoop received an exclusive first look at the new testing facility, which the Pentagon hopes will address gaps in hypersonics research, testing and workforce development.

Nov 13, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) defeats a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea, Oct. 19. Carney is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)

Adm. Grady: Escalating Houthi-led maritime drone and missile assaults are ‘not just a U.S. problem’

In the vice chairman’s view, the incidents on Dec. 3 mark “a first for attacks on international shipping — and that's a big deal.”

Dec 4, 2023 By Brandi Vincent

Pentagon’s newly elevated Innovation Steering Group preps for first Replicator event

DefenseScoop obtained a memorandum that charters the Deputy's Innovation Steering Group to "rapidly evaluate, identify, and execute innovative solutions for key operational problems facing the Joint Force…

Sep 25, 2023 By Brandi Vincent

Adm. Christopher Grady, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, views the Navigation Seamanship Surface Trainer during a tour of the Mariner Skills Training Center Atlantic, June 7, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class James D. Mullen)

US military publishes new joint warfighting doctrine

"It marks a distinctive paradigm change," Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady said at AFA’s Air, Space and Cyber conference.

Sep 13, 2023 By Jon Harper

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Englehardt, the noncommissioned officer-in-charge of the operations section for the 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, which is deployed to support 1st Theater Sustainment Command, gauges wind speed near the Camp Buehring, Kuwait, drop zone for the April 22, 2021 air drop of four bundles using the Joint Precision Air Delivery System, JPADS. Englehardt said JPADS uses the Modular Autonomous Guidance Unit, or MAGU, to manipulate the the parafoil’s rigging to steer it using GPS to reach its programmed coordinates. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

Pentagon alters oversight of PNT enterprise in new guidance

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks signed off on an update to how the Pentagon oversees its positioning, navigation and timing enterprise.

Apr 26, 2023 By Jon Harper