Author: Michael

In order to attract and retain more cyber talent in the future, the Department of Defense wants to reevaluate the personnel system that creates barriers to leaving service and reentry.
The just released DOD Cyber Workforce Strategy aims to provide a roadmap for how the department will grow and keep a cyber workforce in an increasingly competitive field amid a global shortage of cyber talent that organizations are vying to recruit and retain.

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According to authorities, Russia has launched a barrage of missiles at energy infrastructure across Ukraine, striking homes and killing at least five people in the biggest such attack in three weeks.
Four people were killed in the Lviv region after a missile hit a residential area, Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said. After the attack, three buildings were destroyed by fire, and rescue teams searched the rubble for more possible victims.

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al-Shabaab fighters walk through Mogadishu, Somalia in 2012. (Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP via Getty Images).

With the 20-year War in Afghanistan over, Somalia has become the next major front in the United States’ ongoing Global War on Terror. 
Since the start of 2023, the U.S. military has conducted at least a half-dozen operations in Somalia, mostly against the militant group al-Shabaab, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.

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AURORA, Colo. — As he executes on his at times “daunting” responsibilities to steer the United States’ newest high-tech military branch, Space Force leader Gen. Chance Saltzman is applying lessons and tactics from innovative leaders who served decades before this modern, digital age.
He personally writes and regularly sends Chief of Space Operations notices to guardians at all levels, for example, to share his evolving thoughts on priorities and invite discussion and debate on topics he views as critically important to the young force.

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U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Elias E. Pimentel III

When asked what the F-35’s massive upgrade initiative known as Block 4 will bring to the table, Air Combat Command boss Gen. Mark Kelly made it crystal clear that the new electronic warfare capabilities it will acquire under the effort tops his list. The stealth jet’s future relevancy in high-end conflicts may even depend on it.
These upgrades will greatly enhance what is already regarded as a powerhouse of an electronic warfare suite aboard the F-35s flying today.

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The UK is upgrading and expanding the size of its Shadow special mission aircraft fleet. (Crown Copyright)

The UK programme to upgrade and expand the size of its Raytheon Shadow

special mission aircraft fleet has passed its critical design review (CDR), the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on 9 March.

In announcing a GBP11.5 million (USD13.6 million) training contract for the capability with Raytheon, the MoD said that the Shadow R2 upgrade and its efforts to increase the fleet from six to eight aircraft had successfully passed its CDR.

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Romania plans to seek parliamentary approval to procure a battalion of M1 Abrams tanks, seen on exercise in the country in 2016. (Romanian MoD )
Romania plans to seek parliamentary approval to procure a battalion of M1 Abrams tanks under a government-to-government agreement, Lieutenant General Teodor Incicaș, the national armaments director, told the podcast of the Ministry of National Defence’s weekly Observatorul Militar (Military Observer).

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President Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget request aims to hasten the U.S. military’s acquisition of advanced combat drones as part of a broader push to modernize the force and pursue cutting-edge technology, according to documents released Thursday.
The White House proposes increasing the Defense Department’s total discretionary budget authority to $842 billion, a 3.2% boost from the 2023 enacted level.

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Having perused the latest technologies and hearing the challenges the modern soldier faces today at the Future Soldier Technology conference, 6-8 March, there was a common thread that weaves the latest and greatest military systems together.
The soldier has come to rely on actionable insight that comes from the automated services of artificial intelligence (AI).

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We remember Steven Seagal, the once-famed action movie actor who bestowed the glorious film “Under Siege” upon us before slowly driving his career into obscurity, making progressively worse movies. Today, Seagal is more of a joke than anything else, known more for talking like a Cajun gator hunter for some reason, running weird, and pooping his pants after getting choked out by a Judo master. 
Seagal has long been a friend of Russia, being made an official citizen of the country by presidential decree in 2016.

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