Defense News in Brief: Poland Selected to Host Historic PAC-3 Missile Maintenance Facility, Strengthening Allied Burden-Sharing and Transatlantic Security

Source: United States Department of War

On the margins of the NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors meeting, the United States government, in coordination with Lockheed Martin and European allies, announced Poland as the host nation for the European Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Maintenance Facility.

Defense News in Brief: Department of War’s Critical Technologies Office Partners With In-Q-Tel to Accelerate Technology From Non-Traditional Performers to the Warfighter

Source: United States Department of War

The War Department announced an agreement with the Central Intelligence Agency and In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit strategic investor with a technology scouting platform and portfolio of early stage companies, to rapidly convert commercial ingenuity into military capability.

Defense News in Brief: Readout of 17th U.S.-Qatar Military Consultative Commission and 21st U.S.-Bahrain Military Consultative Committee

Source: United States Department of War

Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Near East and Central Asia Michael P. DiMino IV traveled to Qatar and Bahrain to co-chair the 17th U.S.-Qatar Military Consultative Commission and 21st U.S.-Bahrain Military Consultative Committee, alongside representatives of the Joint Staff, U.S. Central Command, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and the Department of State.

Defense News in Brief: Readout of 17th U.S.-Qatar Military Consultative Commission

Source: United States Department of War

Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Near East and Central Asia Michael P. DiMino IV traveled to Qatar and Bahrain to co-chair the 17th U.S.-Qatar Military Consultative Commission and 21st U.S.-Bahrain Military Consultative Committee, alongside representatives of the Joint Staff, U.S. Central Command, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and the Department of State.

Defense News in Brief: Department of War Issues Legal Waiver to Authorize Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosures to PURSUE

Source: United States Department of War

DOW announced the issuance of a legal waiver that establishes an authorized, legally protected disclosure mechanism for personnel to provide unidentified anomalous phenomena-related national defense information to designated representatives of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters effort.

Defense News in Brief: Readout of the 16th U.S.-Kuwait Joint Military Commission

Source: United States Department of War

Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Near East and Central Asia Michael P. DiMino IV and Kuwait’s Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Khaled al-Shriaan co-chaired the 16th U.S.-Kuwait Joint Military Commission at the Pentagon alongside representatives from U.S. Central Command, the Joint Staff, the Maryland National Guard, and the State Department.