Author: Michael

Morgan Lerette, Real Clear Defense
Private Military Contractors (PMCs) are going through an existential reckoning with their conscience since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended.

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Sexual assaults in the military might be three to four times more frequent than Pentagon estimates, a new study shows. 
While the military reported 35,900 sexual assaults in 2021, the study found that the true number may have been roughly 75,500. For 2023, the Pentagon reported 29,000 assaults, but the researchers behind the study say the true number might have been 73,700.
The report, released by the Costs of War project at Brown University, focused on sexual assaults across the two decades of post-9/11 wars, from the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to 2023.

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Command Sgt. Maj. Harold “Ed” Jarrell has been relieved as the senior enlisted for the Army’s 1st Information Operations Command, an Army spokesperson confirmed, marking the third time within a month that the Army has fired a command sergeant major of a brigade or larger unit.
Jarrell was relieved on Tuesday “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead effectively,” said Army Maj. Lindsay Roman, a spokeswoman for U.S. Army Cyber Command.

Jarrell’s firing comes one week after Command Sgt. Major Veronica E.

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This summer’s massive, multinational Rim of the Pacific military exercise served as a large-scale testbed for technologies connected to the U.S. Navy’s secretive Project Overmatch — a key element of the service’s future warfighting capability that puts a premium on software-defined networks.
Overmatch is part of the Navy’s contribution to the Pentagon’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) effort to better connect the U.S. military’s sensors, shooters, platforms and personnel across the services and with key allies.

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The Pentagon cleared a major milestone Thursday on the path to instituting its cybersecurity standards program for contractors known as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0.
The Department of Defense submitted a proposed rule that, once approved, would incorporate new cyber requirements into all contracts for vendors who want to do business with the U.S. military that involves sensitive but unclassified information.
Under the CMMC 2.

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