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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s policy update all but abandons the longstanding practice of purchasing software that is custom-built for military needs.
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Russian Strike On Ukrainian Ammo Depot Kills 38 Near Kyiv – A Russian drone strike on a Ukrainian ammunition depot west of Kyiv has killed at least 38 people after stored shells, mines, drones and other explosives detonated. The strike became the deadliest overnight Russian attack so far this year.
The strike took place late on Friday, August 28, in the village of Myla in Kyiv Oblast’s Bucha district. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that another 20 people were injured, including two children, while four people were still missing.
Kim Jong Un at expanded Russian-North Korean talks, Vladivostok, April 2019. Photo: kremlin.ru / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Kim Jong Un on Sunday overhauled the top levels of the military commands of North Korea, bringing in a new Minister of National Defense and promoting a top general who had stepped back from front-line duty in recent years back to a senior post on the country’s top military commission.
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Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) and the Javelin Joint Venture (JJV) have agreed to collaborate on the in-country co-production of the Javelin All Up Round (AUR) anti-tank missile system in India.
CENTCOM Confirms U.S. Action Against IRGC Launchers On Larak Island. Earlier today, U.S. forces conducted strikes against two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. This marks the first military action by the U.S. in the region in over a month, reports Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, spokesperson for CENTCOM. “The IRGC had positioned themselves to launch rockets carrying sea mines in the vicinity of international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” said Hawkins.
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Quantum’s hype obscures a reality with real geopolitical stakes: the technology works and is advancing every day. Cameron Chehreh (IonQ), JD Dulny (Booz Allen), and Ben Gianni (GDIT) join Jonathan to discuss the race to Q-Day. They cover the shift to post-quantum cryptography, competing hardware modalities, emerging use cases, and why talent gaps and fragile supply chains mean the United States could be at risk of falling behind.Image: Jonathan Steffen via DVIDS.
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Walk into the Pentagon, climb the escalator, and an Uncle Sam-style poster points at you: “I want YOU to use AI.” It worked. GenAI.mil hit 1.5 million users in six months, and I have heard enough OpenAI-in-disguise pitches to last a lifetime. The adoption really is great, but the poster contains a problem. “Use” is the verb of tools, and the Department of Defense does not win by using tools. It wins by commanding forces.North of the Pentagon, a task force few know about operates in a Maryland basement.
China is rapidly expanding a highly secretive flight-test facility near the Lop Nur nuclear test site, creating a major new centre for the development and evaluation of advanced military aircraft. The expansion is particularly significant because the base has already hosted China’s two known sixth generation fighter types, which have been in flight testing since late 2024, suggesting that the facility is being prepared for a much larger role in China’s next generation air combat programs.