Marines deployed to Los Angeles will start their mission of guarding federal buildings on Friday. National Guard soldiers who were already in the area will transition to protecting local law enforcement, the commander of the mission announced.
“I would like to emphasize that the soldiers will not participate in law enforcement activities. Rather, they’ll be focused on protecting federal law enforcement personnel,” Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, commander of Task Force 51, the name of the military’s mission in LA, told reporters Friday.
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Four senior executives of tech giants like Meta and Palantir are being sworn into the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers at the unusually high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a new program to recruit private-sector experts to speed up tech adoption.
The Army calls the program to recruit Silicon Valley executives Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps. The program is aimed at bringing in part-time advisors from the private sector to help the service adopt and scale commercial technology like drones and robots into its formations.
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Executives from high-tech firms Meta, OpenAI and Palantir are joining the Army Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel to serve in Detachment 201, a new “Executive Innovation Corps,” the service announced Friday.
The move is the latest push by the department to tap into capabilities and know-how from Silicon Valley and the commercial sector.
The new corps “brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and is “designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation,” the Army stated in a press release.
Indonesia has a LOI with KNDS France, an artillery systems and ammunitions company, to acquire more Caesar artillery and 155mm ammunition.
It’s been a significant week for civil-military relations. Since immigration protests started in Los Angeles on June 6, about 4,000 federalized California National Guardsmen and 700 Marines have been ordered to deploy to the city to protect federal personnel and buildings.
If President Donald Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, federal troops would also be authorized to enforce civilian laws on American soil. First passed in 1807, the Insurrection Act is often confused with martial law, but the two are very different.
MCL, a Cohort subsidiary, is bringing a new detection capability to ISR in defence known as hyperspectral imaging.
The UK’s defence sector has marked a significant milestone with the new BAE Systems factory dedicated to artillery howitzer production.
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The future of the the Navy’s sixth-gen fighter remains uncertain as lawmakers support robust funding for the program while the Trump administration tries to slash spending in 2026
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Look for 28 Abrams tanks on the parade route in Washington, DC on Saturday, June 14 as the U.S.