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The Pentagon’s next Global Information Dominance Experiment — GIDE 12 — will put the minimum viable capability for Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control that officials have been collaboratively refining in recent years via this rapid experimentation series, to its most international test yet.
Roots of the Defense Department’s GIDE series trace back to 2020, but in 2022, it was revamped when Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks tasked the Chief Digital and AI Office with strategically enabling technologies that could help realize the U.S.

At long last, the Navy has awarded a contract for the next portion of its premier airborne electronic attack capability.
The Defense Department announced on Aug. 26 that L3Harris won a five-year, $587.4 million contract for the engineering and manufacturing development of the Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) system. The NGJ family of systems is a replacement for the decades-old ALQ-99, that will be mounted on the EA-18G Growler aircraft.

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Antiquated information technology and modern capabilities are colliding at the Defense Department, where officials are using artificial intelligence to try to make old-timey software code more user-friendly for IT modernization.
Much of the DOD’s tech is decades old, which isn’t helpful as the Pentagon pursues cloud migration and other digital transformation efforts.

In the whirlwind of military life, nourishing your family with healthy meals can seem like an uphill battle. Between the PCS moves, deployments, and daily demands, prioritizing nutrition takes creativity and planning. But with a few innovative strategies, you can keep your family well-fed and energized in ways that go beyond the ordinary.
Local food resources
While the commissary is a staple, exploring other local food resources can bring variety and freshness to your meals. Consider the convenience of joining a Community Supported Agriculture Program (CSA).

In 2020, Sam Wilkins wrote “Does America Need an Africa Strategy?” where he argued that U.S. policy regarding Africa is insufficiently flexible and does not take into account the diverse circumstances of the many countries on the continent. In the wake of numerous geopolitical shifts in Africa, we invited Sam back to reflect on his article. Read more below. In your 2020 article, “Does America Need an Africa Strategy?” you argue that U.S.

The U.S. is looking to West African countries to counter regional terrorist threats after American forces were told to leave Niger and Chad, the commander of U.S. military forces in Africa said.
“We’re in talks with Cote d’Ivoire and in talks with Ghana and Benin as well as we start to reset and recalibrate some of our assets,” the commander of U.S. Africa Command, Marine Corps Gen.

A brand-new study published by the Brownstowne Institute makes it clear: President Donald Trump was right about the early treatment of COVID with Hydroxychloroquine:
Early in the pandemic, President Donald Trump and White House senior official Peter Navarro arranged the donation of 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to America’s strategic drug stockpile to combat Covid-19. The government began securing HCQ in March 2020, after Trump, on the advice of his medical and scientific advisors, lauded HCQ as “very encouraging,” “very powerful,” and a “game-changer.

This is Chapter 6 in the Grief Memoir. Catch up with previous chapters here.
The months following my mom’s death were marked by a lot of logistics helping my dad. I returned home after he had stayed in the hospital and quickly went to a lot of doctor’s appointments with him. I needed, and wanted, to learn all that I could about his health. None were at any level of significance like cancer, but a lot of little things and a few major things, added up to a complicated picture. 
His trips to the ER ranged from a few hours to days.

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PARIS — It’s the shell everybody seems to want.
Since the war began in Ukraine the demand for the relatively low-tech 155mm ammunition has skyrocketed, with the nation firing as many as 8,000 rounds per day, according to some published estimates.
From Asia to Europe to the United States, arms manufacturers are building new facilities to boost the capacity to produce the shell, not only to supply Ukraine but also to replenish domestic stocks.