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The Army is looking for a team-of-teams approach for vendors to self-organize on its critical Next Generation Command and Control effort.
An entirely new way of doing business, officials have noted that Next Gen C2 will be a clean-slate approach rather than continuing to either bolt on or work within the confines of existing systems and processes. NGC2 aims to provide commanders and units a new approach to information, data and command and control through agile and software-based architectures.

Major William Edward Adams was a member of the United States Army. He is a posthumous recipient of the military’s prestigious Medal of Honor. Major Adams earned his medal through a show of courage in Vietnam, where he ultimately lost his life.
Background
Adams’ passion for the outdoors started in childhood growing up near Casper, Wyoming. So, it was no surprise that after graduating high school, he found himself at Wentworth Military Academy. This is where his military journey began. In 1962, Adams joined the Army.

“It must not be killed or shot at except in an emergency arising out of self-defense.” That was one of the U.S. State Department’s cardinal rules for American fortune seekers, proto-cryptozoologists and adventurers who were making the trek into the Himalayas and hoped to encounter the Abominable Snowman – also known as the Yeti. 
The Yeti, like its legendary North American relative Bigfoot, is a mythical ape-like creature that many have claimed is real.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military services to develop “sex-neutral” physical standards for combat arms jobs, which involve service members directly participating in ground combat.
As part of the review, Hegseth has ordered the military branches to “develop comprehensive plans to distinguish combat arms occupations from non-combat arms occupations,” the March 30 memo says.
Each service may define combat arms differently, a defense official told Task & Purpose on Monday.

Three of four missing U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division were found dead, an Army spokesperson confirmed, after an all-hands effort by U.S. and Lithuanian forces pulled their M88 Hercules recovery vehicle from a deep bog in a Lithuanian swamp Monday.
One soldier remained unaccounted for a week after the four-man crew went missing during an exercise in the Pabradė training area.
The four soldiers disappeared March 25 when their M88A2 armored recovery vehicle vanished after being dispatched to repair and tow another immobilized tactical vehicle.

The destroyer USS Spruance recently helped the Coast Guard and agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, take 13 people into custody as part of the ship’s mission to bolster security on the southern border, according to U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM.
The Spruance left San Diego on March 22 to assist U.S. government agencies assigned to combat transitional crime, piracy, illegal immigration, and other activities, a NORTHCOM news release says. An embedded Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment is aboard the Spruance during its border security mission.

One of the most highly anticipated confirmation hearings in recent memory is scheduled for Tuesday, when retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine — President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Caine is more of a mystery than some previous nominees for the post who held more high-profile positions prior to being picked for the job.

Judson, DNews
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Reported improvements to Russian and Chinese artillery systems present a challenge to the U.S. Army.

Seth Cropsey, RealClearDefense
investments today are critical, not simply to field a small number of nascent hypersonics, but to build the foundation for a long-term U.S.