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Army officials arrested a “person of interest” Thursday in the death of a Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri soldier whose body was found in a dumpster earlier this week.
Army investigators told Task & Purpose Wednesday that they were investigating the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, 23, as a homicide.
The arrest came hours after Army officials said they had identified a ‘person of interest’ in the case, but gave no details about their identity or connection to Roque.
Roque was reported missing Monday when she did not show for a morning formation.

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Millennium Space Systems will deliver six more satellites for the Space Force’s upcoming medium-Earth orbit (MEO) missile warning and tracking constellation, the service’s acquisition arm announced Wednesday.
Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Millennium, a Boeing subsidiary, a second contract valued at $386 million for the service’s Resilient Missile Warning and Missile Tracking – MEO (MEO MW/MT) effort. Under both the new agreement and one previously given to the firm in 2023, Millennium will deliver a total of 12 space vehicles for the first phase of the program, known as Epoch 1.

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After testing networking and command-and-control capabilities aboard airborne platforms, the Army could be sending those packages outside the U.S. for further feedback from units.
Historically, aerial platforms only had chat functions and could only send position location information. But this summer, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division conducted a 500-mile air assault from its home station at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Fort Johnson, Louisiana, to kick off its Joint Readiness Training Center rotation.

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The Pentagon’s Chief Information Office has become laser focused on migrating the entire department to using stronger cryptographic algorithms that will keep its networks and operations secure.
Among all of the cybersecurity modernization efforts underway at the Defense Department, cryptography has recently moved to the top of Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity David McKeown’s list of priorities. Speaking at AFCEA DC’s annual Tech Summit on Thursday, McKeown said the effort will likely be a big lift for the department given its timeline and scale.

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Generations of Marines graduated boot camp with a litany of ditties and bits of jargon seared into their brain housing group — including “ditty” and “brain housing group” — but few were as memorable as “JJ DID TIE BUCKLE.”
The saying refers to the Marine Corps’ 14 leadership traits: judgment, justice, decisiveness, integrity, dependability, tact, initiative, enthusiasm, bearing, unselfishness, courage, knowledge, loyalty and endurance. However, with the addition of another trait — empathy — it looks like “JJ” will be tying “BUCKLEE.

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A new national security memorandum from President Biden aims to speed up the Pentagon’s and intelligence community’s adoption of emerging artificial intelligence capabilities while addressing security concerns associated with the technology.
The document, released Thursday, includes provisions to accelerate the U.S. government’s use of AI to further national security missions, including by tapping into fast-moving innovation in the private sector.

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In 2021, Sharon Burke wrote, “The Arctic Threat That Must Not be Named,” where she argued that climate change was the main variable driving geopolitical competition in the Arctic. In the wake of increasing focus on the region, we invited Sharon back to reflect on her article. Read more below. 1. In your 2021 article, “The Arctic Threat That Must Not be Named,” you argued that climate change is “the variable that will drive all other calculations in the region.

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Army officials are investigating a “person of interest” in the death of a Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri soldier whose body was found in a dumpster earlier this week, officials said Thursday.
Army investigators told Task & Purpose Wednesday that they were investigating the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, 23, as a homicide.
Roque was reported missing Monday when she did not show for a morning formation. Her unit immediately started searching for her and notified the base’s emergency services and local law enforcement, Maj. Gen.

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