The Indian government has informed U.S. officials that it is not interested in procuring the F-35 fighter, according to a recent report by Bloomberg. American officials stated when speaking anonymously that the Indian government appears unlikely to proceed with any major new defence procurements from the United States, despite Washington having lobbied increasingly hard to press the country to increase defence imports.
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Will AI eat the world and America’s defense budget? I think of those who toil at the intersection of AI and national security as being divided into three camps: Sprinters hold the most aggressive assumptions and believe profound disruption via artificial general intelligence is imminent; marathoners believe the technology will diffuse selectively, sector-by-sector; and skeptics draw analogies to the dot-com bubble.America’s near-term AI strategy should align with one of these three approaches.
A new enterprise agreement with Palantir that the Army announced on Thursday is just the beginning of a larger push by the service to gain more flexibility and transparency in how it buys software and be a better steward of taxpayer dollars.
Ahead of the announcement, Army officials told reporters that they’re looking to change the software buying model.
Arlington, VA (August 9, 2021) Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas participates in the swearing in of new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Jen Easterly at CISA Headquarters in Arlington, VA.Public Domain
On Wednesday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ordered West Point to terminate the employment of President Biden’s recently hired censorship czar.
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus recently caused an earthquake on social media when he appeared in an Army video wearing what many hoped was to be an astounding addition to the service’s PT uniform: a tank top.
In the video, Mingus and two other soldiers can be seen rocking a tank top adorned with the star from the Army’s logo along with “EST. 1775” underneath it. After carefully studying the video, Task & Purpose was unable to determine if the tank top was part of a onesie outfit.
The Army is reaching out to industry as it looks for AI technologies to help commanders manage airspace environments that are growing increasingly complex with the integration of new systems like drones.
The service issued a request for information Wednesday to help the program executive office for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors and the program manager for Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) get feedback from industry and identify potential solutions.
The Army wants to mitigate the cognitive burden for commanders and boost their situational awareness.
The song that many of us identify uniquely with the President of the United States has a surprisingly controversial history. Chester Arthur hated it, Ronald Reagan thought it was a necessary tradition for the office, and during his first term, President Trump entered a room to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” more often than not. But this essential piece of Presidential entrance music is almost as old as America itself.
During the President’s Inauguration, “The President’s Own” Marine Corps band plays “Hail to the Chief” after 45 seconds of four Ruffles and Flourishes.
The Marine Corps is looking for enlisted volunteers to get out early.
The move is part of a new program that applies to active duty enlisted Marines who were already set to leave service or had an “end of active service,” or EAS, date in fiscal year 2025, which runs from now until Sept. 30, according to a Marine Corps announcement posted Thursday.
Marines who are approved to leave early will separate earlier than their current contract end date but will still be considered as having completed their full active duty service.
Even though Ukraine does not have much in the way of a navy, it has scored several victories against the Russian military by using drone boats known as unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, providing lessons to the U.S. Navy about the future of naval warfare.
In 2024, explosives-laden Ukrainian USVs sank the Russian missile corvette Ivanovets and the patrol ship Sergey Kotov in the Black Sea. More recently, Ukraine claimed in May that its USVs armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles shot down two Russian Su-30 Flanker fighters.
The question now for the U.S.
The German Bundeswehr will expand by a further 1,000 civilian positions according to the latest outlook from the federal cabinet.