Author: Tom Roeder, The Gazette
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Colorado bases would see building boom under Pentagon’s 2020 budget plan
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Schriever Air Force Base would see a $148 million building boom, and $71 million would go to Fort Carson under a budget proposal offered by the Pentagon on Tuesday. The $750 billion Defense Department budget aims to deter growing threats from China and Russia, said Elaine McCusker, the military’s top accountant. “China and Russia will…
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Pentagon’s mad scientists coming to Colorado to test underground robots
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The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency will take over a Colorado mine in April to test robots designed to seek out underground enemies. “Nine qualified teams will attempt to remotely navigate the dark and dirty corridors of Edgar Experimental Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado,” the Pentagon’s mad science arm, known by the acronym DARPA, said…
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Ahead of North Korea summit, Tipton wants captured USS Pueblo returned
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Ahead of President Donald Trump’s next visit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a Colorado congressman wants a lingering topic addressed. U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton says Pueblo wants its boat back. The USS Pueblo, an antenna-laden spy ship, was seized by North Korea in 1968 in a raid that killed one of the crew,…
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Trump border-wall emergency: Impact on Colorado military projects is unclear
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President Donald Trump’s plan to use emergency powers to pay for a Mexican border wall involves pulling an estimated $3.5 billion from planned military construction work. It’s unclear whether the wall work would cancel construction projects in Colorado. The Pentagon planned $101 million in Colorado this year, including a vehicle maintenance shop and Special Forces…
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Doug Lamborn moves up on powerful military readiness panel
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In office since 2006, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn is finally getting the kind of position that federal lawmakers spend their career waiting for: a top post on a powerful subcommittee that controls a mind-boggling amount of money. Lamborn served his time as a back-bencher on the House Armed Services Committee, but moved up this year…
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Fort Carson soldiers return from Afghanistan with optimism, wariness as pullout looms
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As U.S. Army troops have streamed home to Colorado’s Fort Carson from Afghanistan in recent weeks, their leaders have said the nation where America has battled for nearly 18 years is increasingly ready to stand on its own. But even as signs point to an end to America’s longest war, veterans worry that the finish…
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Sex assaults on women at Air Force Academy increasing, Pentagon report says
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The number of women who faced unwanted sexual contact jumped last year at the Air Force Academy, following a trend that included West Point and Annapolis. The jump was documented in a new Pentagon report released Thursday. For the academic year that ended in 2018, 15 percent of academy women reported unwanted sexual contact, up…
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Gardner: No rift with Trump over reopening government, border wall
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Despite the firestorm that erupted when he became the first Republican senator to call for reopening the federal government, Colorado’s Cory Gardner said Friday that he hasn’t changed his position on shutdowns. Gardner, who faces a tough re-election battle in two years in a state won by President Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in…
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Trump revives U.S. Space Command, likely based in Colorado
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U.S. Space Command was put back in business Tuesday with a memo from President Donald Trump. The memo ordered the Pentagon to re-establish the four-star command, which will likely again call Colorado home. U.S. Space Command was headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs for two decades until it was folded to establish…
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Senators request FBI probe of ex-US Olympic Committee boss
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Two U.S. senators have asked the Justice Department to probe whether the former boss of the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Olympic Committee lied to Congress in written testimony about his response to the Larry Nassar scandal. Scott Blackmun, former CEO of the Olympic Committee, told lawmakers in June that he consulted with SafeSport officials after learning…