Author: Michael

The Pentagon’s Chief Information Office is strategically transforming enterprisewide hiring approaches for cybersecurity recruits, staff metrics and technology-enabled HR systems, according to a senior official involved in that work. 
Mark Gorak, the organization’s principal director for resources and analysis, shared new details about those unfolding modernization plans Thursday and discussed areas where new Trump administration-led changes and disruption could help enable or accelerate ongoing efforts.

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As advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities proliferate, the Air Force is using a series of capstone events in 2025 to serve as a proving ground for how the technology can be incorporated into future battle management operations.
Led by the 805th Combat Training Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, the biannual capstone allows the service to test new tech and assess their applicability for battle management and tactical command and control.

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Under a new pilot program, sailors, Marines and their dependents in select locations who are new moms will be able to meet with registered nurses for help with unique maternal physical and mental health conditions that some face throughout pregnancy and after giving birth. 
Active duty mothers and military spouses are at a greater risk of facing mental health challenges during and after pregnancy because of the realities of military life. A combination of cultural stigmas and barriers to health care can exacerbate the problem, a federal watchdog found.

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The Trump administration begins under the shadow of a series of consequential Chinese cyber hacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. While incoming officials grapple with long-standing failures to deter China and other adversaries from launching cyberattacks on the U.S. homeland, the Department of Defense (DOD) faces a startling capability gap: The civilian and military professionals responsible for protecting the same type of assets that China compromised receive inadequate training in recognizing, defending against, and recovering from malicious state-sponsored cyber activity.

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Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** Col. Frederick Gustavus Burnaby never received the fame or geographic moniker enjoyed by men such as Lawrence of Arabia or Chinese Gordon.

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