The Pentagon plans to issue a solicitation for the next iteration of its high-dollar enterprise cloud initiative in the first quarter of calendar year 2026, according to a senior official at the Defense Information Systems Agency.
In December 2022, Google, Oracle, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft were awarded contract spots on the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program and have been competing for task orders. To date, more than $3 billion in task orders have been awarded, according to John Hale, chief of product management and development at DISA.
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A soldier assigned to Fort Bliss, Texas, has been arrested and charged with espionage for allegedly trying to provide the Russian government with sensitive information about M1A2 Abrams tanks and other armored vehicles, the Justice Department has announced.
Spc. Taylor Adam Lee, 22, is accused of trying to send the information to Russia’s defense ministry starting in May, according to a Justice Department news release, which also says that Lee holds a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance — one of the highest levels of access granted.
Marsha Four was an Army nurse working in an intensive care unit not far from the front lines of Vietnam.
Four said everyone she worked with and all her patients were young people who were thrust into war, unaware of the horrors they would face. She recalled seeing gruesome combat injuries and having to decontaminate troops that came back with uniforms doused in Agent Orange. She also remembered troops using jet fuel to burn waste from latrines, dioxin to defoliate base perimeters for better visibility, and burn pits for trash from the base and hospital.
After an Army sergeant opened fire with his personal firearm at Fort Stewart, Georgia, on Wednesday, wounding five others, six unarmed soldiers tackled the gunman, subdued him and tended to the wounded.
On Thursday, the soldiers who intervened in the attack were recognized and awarded medals for their “heroism” and “selfless service,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said at a Fort Stewart press briefing.
Master Sgt. Justin Thomas, a senior enlisted maintenance supervisor and Sgt. Aaron Turner, an automated logistical specialist, worked together to restrain the shooter.
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CACI International has recorded $8.63bn in revenue for fiscal year 2025 (FY25), marking a 12.6% growth from the previous year’s $7.66bn.
BAE Systems is investing in enhancing the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) by integrating a series of rapid capability kits.
The more than three-and-a-half year old war could be moving towards a ceasefire as the US puts pressure on Moscow.
Israel’s initiation of open hostiles with Iran on June 13, which culminated in a ceasefire 11 days later, has served to draw considerable attention to the deficiencies of Iranian air defence capabilities, and the highly uncertain future of the country’s fighter fleet which is today considered long since obsolete.
The VA can keep veterans on edge with its policies and procedures, but its Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) increases over the last five years have been consistently positive. The projected increase for 2026 ranges from 2.1% to 2.7%, with a likely increase of 2.6%, although some predict an increase as high as 4%.
The VA’s own SITREP YouTube channel talked about the earliest projection in July 2025.
Any increase is helpful, but COLA rates have been on a decline in recent years, following a 2023 high of 8.7%. In 2025, the COLA increase was 2.
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