The Pentagon released new rules for how close troops should be to blasts from explosions and their own weapons and announced a program of long-term cognitive testing for troops from early career onward to spot the effects of blast exposures. The Aug. 8 guidance from Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks aims to limit the health impacts of exposure to heavy blasts — what the military calls “blast overpressure” — and give military doctors before-and-after data for troops who spend their careers around such blasts.
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As the Department of Defense is working to connect all the disparate data sets and sensors from each service, standardization will be a critical component to realizing the vision in the future.
The effort is associated with Combined Joint-All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2), which envisions how systems across the entire battlespace from all the services and key international partners could be more effectively and holistically networked to provide the right data to commanders, faster. The word “combined” in the parlance of CJADC2, refers to bringing foreign partners into the mix.
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Rheinmetall will deliver 14 Leopard 2 tanks and a Buffalo recovery vehicle to the Czech Republic, which will offer equipment to Ukraine.
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CONTEXT: As of 2023, women constitute an average of 17.5% of all active-duty military personnel, totaling nearly 229,000. An additional 231,741 women (21.4%) serve in the Selected Reserve and the National Guard. DOD also employs ~224,000 civilian women (32%)—for a total of 684,741 women across the Department of Defense. https://www.gao.gov/productsgao-23-105284#)
Women were first granted the ability to serve as permanent members of the military under the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of June 12, 1948.
Norway has received authorisation from the US to procure M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and its related equipment.