Author: Michael

Defense officials recently used the Pentagon’s enterprise-wide generative artificial intelligence platform to create 100,000 agents amid a broader push by department leadership to speed up AI adoption, according to a senior member of the research and engineering directorate.
The Pentagon first introduced its GenAI.mil platform for its workforce in December, with the aim of providing commercial tools to millions of personnel across the DOD. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CTO Emil Michael have both championed the capability and encouraged its widespread use.

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An Army veteran attempting to wield South Carolina law to sue a military contractor won a major Supreme Court victory Wednesday, carving out a narrow legal lane for those seeking to hold wartime contractors to account.
The ruling allows a former soldier to use state injury laws to sue Fluor Corporation, a contractor whose Afghan employee gravely wounded him in a 2016 suicide bombing.

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After decades of flying the AV-8B Harrier II and the F/A-18 Hornet, the Marine Corps is going all in on the F-35.
Besides being stealthy, the jet has far more advanced sensing and data-sharing tools than anything the Marine Corps has flown in the past, an asset that service officials say will be vital on future battlefields.
But the F-35 is as complicated as it is capable, and bringing a jet that advanced into the demolition derby of expeditionary warfare requires a shift in how the Marine Corps thinks about aviation logistics.

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Michael Kofman joined Ryan at a live event earlier this year to discuss the performance of American defense technology in Ukraine and why it often falls short. They examine the challenges of fielding and iterating systems in combat, from poor implementation and weak feedback loops to deeper mismatches between design and battlefield reality. They also explore what it takes to succeed in this environment and what it means for future conflicts. Thanks to Leonid Capital Partners for hosting the event at which this podcast was recorded.

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The National Guard tends to be the butt of a lot of jokes from fellow service members and civilians alike.
It’s not without merit, as a lot of times, the jokes write themselves. Especially if you’ve deployed overseas and seen how some National Guard units are put in the tower-guard-and-sandbag-filler pigeonhole.
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But what the National Guard doesn’t do very often is defend itself by parading around its own history.

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