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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled broad plans on Friday to shake up the Pentagon’s approach to Foreign Military Sales, marking a cornerstone in the Trump administration’s disruptive new effort to reform the U.S. military’s processes for supplying technology and weapons systems to international buyers. 
“Transforming requirements and acquisition alone is not enough. We must also improve the way our department and the industrial base supports weapon sales to our allies and our partners.

Some military leaders are telling their troops to prepare for their on-base commissaries to close by early December if the government shutdown continues. As many as 168 locations at bases across the continental U.S. could be affected.
But officials with the agency that runs the military-only grocery stores insisted to Task & Purpose this week that the stores will be open through Thanksgiving.
“Our stores will be open to serve our customers through Thanksgiving,” Kevin Robinson, a spokesperson for the Defense Commissary Agency, or DECA, told Task & Purpose.

A new movie trailer just dropped for soldiers fortunate enough to survive a month of “war” in the Mojave Desert against one of the Army’s most enduring foes.
“Atropia,” a military satire named after the fictional, corrupt nation favored by U.S. forces during a simulated, but major war at the National Training Center in California, follows a troupe of role-players helping prepare soldiers for combat in Iraq. Or to spend several hours looking for a company commander’s pistol only for it to turn up inside a wretched porta-potty.

The Army intends to buy a million drones in the next two to three years and step up its industrial capacity to keep soldiers supplied with millions more in the years to come. The ambitious shopping list comes courtesy of Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, who outlined the acquisition plan to Reuters. 
Currently, the Army purchases about 50,000 drones per year, Reuters reported, but the new order over the next three years would be 20 times that. 
Driscoll and Maj. Gen. John Reim, commander of Picatinny Arsenal, told Reuters that scaling up the acquisition would be a “big lift.

Lawmakers in both congressional chambers are calling for the creation of a new whole-of-government plan to confront emerging national security threats associated with expanding cooperation between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and to ultimately help ensure the U.S. is prepared to counter concurrent challenges from multiple adversaries in the years to come.
Introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.

‘Twas about two months before Christmas, when all through the base, privatized housing residents got a message that their Yuletide decorations were out of place.
The message, which was sent to troops and their families assigned to Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, was posted earlier this week on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page.
“While driving [through] the neighborhoods yesterday, it was noticed that Christmas decorations have already begun to appear within the community,” the message said.

First created as an observance to commemorate World War I’s end, Armistice Day evolved into a day to honor and celebrate all veterans on November 11. Just as its name and purpose changed over the years, so too has the way that people mark Veterans Day. Americans continue to dream up creative ways to thank veterans —not just at parades or ceremonies—but at places like restaurant tables, gas pumps and amusement parks.
This year, November 11 is on a Tuesday, which means that many Veterans Day offers can be enjoyed over the long weekend.

Project Shamer is intended to replace the old L115A3 sniper rifle in service, although a tender is only expected by 2026 at the earliest.

Rheinmetall has reported a 22.9% growth in backlog in the first three quarters of FY25, following several major orders.

British soldiers will finally be able to deploy the Ajax armoured fighting vehicle following its declaration of IOC.