WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news : By Terri Moon Cronk Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks is on a trip to New England to assess the Defense Department's innovation and modernization efforts and partners' capabilities to better enable the warfighter with the latest technology. The deputy secretary began her trip July 8 at Bath Iron Works in Brunswick, Maine, where she met with troops and toured the USS Daniel Inouye, an Arleigh Burke-class  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release on July 7, 2021: Deputy Press Secretary Jamal Brown provided the following readout: Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks met with representatives from Bath Iron Works in Brunswick, Maine, and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Pease Air National Guard, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to discuss and assess efforts to bolster U.S. warfighting capabilities and maintain maritime dominance. While in Brunswick, D  more