Author: Michael

A day after the Defense Department announced a new deal with OpenAI, an official with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office said announcements about additional partnerships with companies for “frontier AI” projects are on the horizon.
In its daily list of new contract awards, the department announced Monday evening that the CDAO had awarded a $200 million prototype other transaction agreement to OpenAI Public Sector to “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.

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The Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Information Officer is considering reducing the number of Pentagon employees who have Microsoft 365 E5 licenses, as it works with the Trump administration to rein in federal spending.
The DOD currently maintains more than 2 million Microsoft 365 E5 licenses across two separate programs — the Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) and the Enterprise Software Initiative (DOD ESI).

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The history of the U.S. special operations forces is filled with legendary missions like the battle of Mogadishu in 1993, SEAL Team 6 killing Osama bin Laden in 2011, and the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. But none of those would have been possible if it weren’t for a failed mission in 1980 that forced the U.S. to rewrite the special operations playbook.
In 1978 and 1979, Iran underwent their Islamic Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the installation of an Islamic Theocracy led by Ruhollah Khomeini.

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