As the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency adopts artificial intelligence into HR workflows, the organization is taking a prudent approach to ensure its workforce doesn’t become overdependent on the technology.
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The S-400 is Russia’s most advanced operational long-range air defense system and forms the centerpiece of Russia’s integrated air defense network.
Though the S-500, recently put into service, offers some advancements. The S-400 entered service with Russia in 2007 and is the successor to the S-300P series air defense systems.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 199th Air Expeditionary Squadron sits beneath a hangar as the sun sets in Northern Territory, Australia, July 16, 2025, during Talisman Sabre 2025.
Pack-out day, 2026. A crew you did not hire shows up in a truck from a company you have never heard of. They wrap your grandmother’s dining table in one layer of brown paper, scribble “SC” (scratched) on an inventory sheet you can barely read, and ask you to sign.
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Three weeks later, at the new house, the table arrives with a leg snapped off, and the scratch code they wrote that morning is now the reason your claim is being negotiated instead of paid out.
When orders drop, most military families pack for one move. Families who are enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) pack at least three. There’s the household, the boxes, the truck, and the mileage log.
Then there’s the medical move with records transfers, specialty referrals, prior authorizations, durable medical equipment logistics, and the prayer that a pediatric neurologist exists within an hour’s drive of the new duty station.
The movers are in the driveway by 0730, wrapping your sofa in enough plastic to cover a small country. Meanwhile, you’re in the garage, muscling a Rubbermaid tote labeled “KITCHEN, OPEN FIRST” into the back of the Hybrid SUV, right next to the pet crate, the file box, and that bag of random cables and chargers you’ll have for the next 20 years.
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Congratulations. You’re doing a partial PPM; perhaps you didn’t know there was a name for it.
Somewhere inside Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, a 120-person organization is quietly running the most consequential experiment in military relocation since the 1960s. They have been at it for 10 months already, operating as a joint task force. On May 1, 2026, they get a new name, a permanent charter, and a direct line to the Secretary of Defense.
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The Personal Property Activity opens its doors into a peak moving season it did not design, inheriting a system it is still being built to replace.
BAE Systems has started manufacturing and delivering its portable, field-installable NavGuide M-Code GPS receiver.
The 20:1 Paradox: Why the F-35’s Staggering Red Flag Success Still Exposed a Fatal Flaw
At Red Flag 2017, the F-35 Lightning II reportedly achieved a 20:1 kill ratio. On paper, the results are staggering—reinforcing the aircraft’s reputation as a fifth-generation force multiplier. But buried in that success were moments where aggressor F-16 pilots managed simulated kills.
A 35th Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon flies near the Korean peninsula during a dogfighting training scenario during exercise Ulchi Freedom Shield 25 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 20, 2025.
After Robert K. Preston flunked out of flight school in Texas, the United States Army reassigned him to Fort Meade in Maryland.
Preston desperately wanted to fly, and he no longer had any path to do that in the military. Still, he was required to serve two more years—a commitment about which the 20-year-old soldier was less than enthusiastic.
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The disgruntled private also recently broke up with his girlfriend, too, leaving him upset and not in the right frame of mind.
The U.S. Navy is surging to add as many new Virginia-class attack submarines as quickly as possible, something that has been on the service’s radar for many years. As Los Angeles-class submarines retire and Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines begin construction, the U.S. Navy has long been aware of its “submarine deficit,” meaning there simply are not enough operational attack submarines to meet combatant commander demand.
This is particularly true in areas such as the Pacific, given that U.S.