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In August 2023, the United States Military Academy hosted the 2023 West Point Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Conference. The opening of the conference featured in person endorsements of the conference by LTG Steven Gilland (Superintendent), BG Robinson (then Commandant), and BG Reeves (Dean). The following is the speech LTG Gilland gave to open the conference on the first day:
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The Marines are preparing to conduct technology demonstrations to inform the next phase of its Mounted Assured Resilient Navigation program, according to the Corps.
Plans are moving forward as the Defense Department seeks more robust tools to mitigate adversaries’ jamming tactics against GPS.
“All military services, including the Marine Corps, have been actively involved in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)/Global Positioning System (GPS) modernization efforts that will culminate in the fielding of critical Assured PNT capabilities to their warfighters.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday that he’s in close contact with Elon Musk and will soon host the tech mogul and his Department of Government Efficiency team at the Pentagon to start sorting out plans for tackling areas of bureaucratic waste and redundancy.
The Invictus Games took a star-studded turn as
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Microsoft is proposing to hand over industry leadership of the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System program to Anduril, the companies announced Tuesday.
IVAS has been one of the service’s highest-priority modernization initiatives, with Microsoft as the prime contractor. The system — which includes ruggedized headgear and software with night-vision, thermal-sensing and augmented reality capabilities, among others — was inspired by the company’s HoloLens 2 device. The Army aims to use the equipment for training and battlefield operations for dismounted troops.
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The Pentagon has clarified that service members can have their out-of-state travel costs for in-vitro fertilization treatment covered, after previously announcing on Jan. 29 that the program had been revoked.
In late January, the Department of Defense announced that it would cancel the Biden Administration-era policy, which authorized funding for service members and their dependents to travel to states where abortion procedures are legal. The policy had also covered other reproductive treatments like IVF and birth control that were not covered under military insurance.