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Air Force Academy Cadet 3rd Class Hunter Brown died on Jan. 9, 2023. (U.S. Air Force Academy).

A coroner has determined that Air Force Academy Cadet 3rd Class Hunter Brown died of a blood clot in his lungs that was caused by an injury to his left foot that he sustained during football practice weeks earlier, according to a copy of Brown’s autopsy report that was provided to Task & Purpose.
El Paso County Coroner Jarod Murdoch has ruled that Brown’s Jan. 9 death was accidental, the autopsy report says. The Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper first reported on Murdoch’s findings.

The Irish Naval Service has decided to place its two 1,700 tonne Róisín (PV 80)-class OPVs into operational reserve as a result of ongoing staffing shortages. (Irish Navy)
The Irish Naval Service (INS) has been forced to mothball its two Róisín (PV 80)-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) as a result of ongoing recruitment and retention issues.

A recently surfaced video, supposedly by Wagner Group, tries to convince American veterans to fight for Russia in Ukraine.
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The FBI is greatly expanding its headquarters, which leaves many wondering if it will be expanding its ranks as well. The FBI is planning to build a new headquarters building, which is expected to be twice the size of the Pentagon.
One cannot help but wonder if the Bureau will be expanding the number of agents to fill such a massive building and what the FBI needs such a huge headquarters for anyway.

A design from General Atomics for the Liberty Lifter X-plane. (General Atomics).

It’s a boat. It’s a plane. It’s both. The Liberty Lifter X-plane is a concept for a ground effect vehicle for “seaborne strategic and tactical heavy lift” according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Now, two companies — Aurora Flight Sciences and General Atomics — have been selected to build it. 
The requirements for the Liberty Lifter call for a plane similar in size and cargo capacity to a C-17 Globemaster III.

The Thetis-class patrol vessels completed their mid-life upgrade in 2017, extending the units’ in-service date for another 10–15 years. (Maritime Photographic)
The Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet: SVN) is expected to announce the formal replacement of its ocean patrol vessels this year, a Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) official said at the 2023 Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance Technology conference held in London on 1 and 2 February.

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded a contract to Lumen Technologies for secure, mission-critical communications services.
The $223m contract will support the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) mission both at home and overseas.
It has been awarded under the 15-year, $50bn Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) programme of the General Services Administration.

The contract has a one-year base performance period and three one-year options. It can be extended further by six months.

Aurora Flight Sciences’ Liberty Lifter concept. (Aurora Flight Sciences)
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on 1 February selected two companies to design wing-in-ground effect (WIG) concepts for Phase 1 of the Liberty Lifter programme.
The 18-month contract is intended to advance designs from both General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) and Aurora Flight Sciences through preliminary design review (PDR), plus an additional three months for presentation and manufacturing planning.

The former Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo could find its final destination at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after discovering that its condition might be too poor for transit to be scrapped and after it was denied entry into ports in Turkey and Brazil. 
The 870-foot-long (265 m) aircraft carrier, which had served the French Navy as Foch before being transferred to Brazil in 2000, still contains a significant amount of harmful asbestos, raising concerns about new plans of the country’s environment minister, among others.

Currently destined for retirement in 2025, the UK’s Tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoon force could be extended according to BAE Systems. (Janes/Patrick Allen)
There is no technical reason why the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) could not upgrade and retain its fleet of Tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft, BAE Systems told the country’s parliamentary Defence Select Committee in January.