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The Defense Information Systems Agency is exploring new partnerships with small businesses that can supply “a wide range of information technology” services to support its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program office as it continues to mature, according to a federal contracting notice published Thursday.
“JWCC requires highly skilled services to support office operations, and the delivery of modern enterprise cloud services and related technologies.

The Army has solved its drone problem. What you do is: you shoot them with a tank.
Problem solved, right?
Not quite, but that describes some of the reaction after the service released its latest update to its “Tank Platoon” manual, known as ATP 3-20.15, late last week, and a set of diagrams deep in the appendix caught the eye of many online. It’s not hard to see why.

Taken by themselves, the diagrams do come across as a bit… optimistic.

The easy answer is often the best answer

Commander Salamander Substack
On Monday, the Congressional Research Service came out with its latest, Navy DDG(X) Next-Generation Destroyer Program: Background and Issues for Congress.
This is worth your time, as we need to get this right.
We have to get this right because we have yet to cut steel on a successfully designed surface warship since Ronaldus Magnus was CINC.

Robert D. Kaplan, The National Interest
America’s policy class has been obsessed for decades with presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.