The Navy has announced that a new destroyer will be named for Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for jumping on a hand grenade in Afghanistan to save his friend.
“In 2010, Cpl. Carpenter went above and beyond the call of duty to shield a fellow Marine from a grenade blast in Afghanistan,” Navy Secretary John Phelan posted on X on Monday, announcing the new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the USS Kyle Carpenter.
“May this warship represent his valor, resilience and devotion to our Nation,” Phelan wrote.
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Charleen Laughlin has moved from the Joint Staff to the Space Force to become the new deputy chief of space operations for cyber and data — a key role as the service pursues digital modernization.
Laughlin took the position a few weeks ago, according to Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear.
Laughlin previously served as the chief digital and AI officer for the Joint Staff and vice director for the Joint Staff’s J-6 command, control, communications, and computers/cyber directorate.
The Army is looking to strengthen soldiers’ abilities in the “spiritual domain,” which encompasses mental and emotional health. As such, the service rolled out a new Spiritual Fitness Guide this month to help soldiers develop greater internal resilience alongside physical endurance.
The Army released the new guide, and a “battlebook” to go with it, on Aug. 1. The nine-chapter guide functions like a physical fitness guide, but for the spirit.
The CGS25 task group has welcomed the Australia
Eurosam, a joint venture between MBDA and Thales, tested the Aster B1 NT missile for the second time in France.
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Pentagon leadership recently tapped four major tech companies for separate contracts — each worth up to $200 million — to accelerate the Defense Department’s enterprise-wide adoption of some of the most advanced commercial algorithms and machine learning capabilities and deploy them against contemporary national security challenges.
Also called foundation models, frontier AI refers to sophisticated, constantly evolving, cutting-edge systems that are becoming increasingly intelligent at completing tasks like natural language processing, computer vision and reasoning.
A new commission has been established to chart a path toward developing an independent Cyber Force for the U.S. military.
The commission was started by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in partnership with the Cyber Solarium Commission 2.0 project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
While there have been calls historically to create a new dedicated, standalone cyber service, the effort has gained steam in recent years.
Congress has sought to address these shortfalls, mostly through studies, previously.
More than a year before the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack, Britain’s Royal Navy gave the world a preview of the future of warfare when carrier-based torpedo-bombers launched a surprise attack on the Italian navy, damaging and destroying several vessels.
Now, Ukraine and Israel have both shown that small drones launched from behind enemy lines have the potential to devastate an adversary’s most valuable weapons systems.
The Pentagon recently announced a series of new initiatives that are meant to catapult the U.S. military into the forefront of small drone warfare.
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