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The Defense Department issued new instructions on Tuesday regarding employees’ use of “situational telework,” via a memorandum penned to senior leaders, combatant commanders, and agency and field activity directors.
This guidance comes as organizations across the federal government move to comply with the Trump administration’s far-reaching mandate to terminate all formerly-approved work arrangements that enabled certain employees to operate on-the-clock from outside of approved physical office spaces.

AURORA, Colo. — The Defense Innovation Unit has chosen Anduril and Zone 5 Technologies to move to the next phase of a program aimed at developing an affordable and modular air vehicle for the Air Force.
The two companies announced this week that they have progressed to the second phase of the Enterprise Test Vehicle (ETV) program, beating out Integrated Solutions for Systems and Leidos Dynetics for the follow-on agreement.

USAFA AOG recently held a board election. Concerned over woke policies being implemented in the past by the AOG board, STARRS.us decided to run a slate of candidates to fill the open seats.
The results have been released and all 5 STARRS candidates were selected for AOG board membership.
Congratulations, may our service academies start to heal.

The Association of Graduates board of directors secretary has certified the results of the 2025 AOG election and approved their release to members. Under the AOG bylaws, an election concludes upon certification by the board secretary.

A general officer with Air Force Special Operations Command, or ASFSOC, recently suggested that the OA-1K Skyraider II — which is designed to conduct advanced armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions and carry out precision airstrikes — could be used as part of operations along the U.S. border with Mexico.
“Providing scalable and precision effects is where the Skyraider II will come in,” Brig. Gen. Craig Prather, AFSOC’s director of strategic plans, said in a Feb. 27 news release.

In less than a week, a former Air Force logistician lost 50% of his business revenue and was forced to lay off 45 employees, including other veterans, when the Department of Veterans Affairs canceled a slew of contracts with his business.
Building on his logistics training in the Air Force, Robert Betters opened RB Consulting, Inc., a supply chain and information technology management firm that contracts with the VA and other agencies. Last week, seven of the company’s contracts were canceled by the VA among the $2 billion of cuts ordered by the new VA Secretary Doug Collins.

In 2020, Walker D. Mills, Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine, and Collin Fox wrote “‘Cocaine Logistics’ for the Marine Corps,” where they argued that the Marine Corps could learn from drug traffickers and create covert submarines to supply troops deep inside enemy lines. Four years later, and with significant advancements in unmanned systems, we asked them to reflect on their article.

Bennie Gene Adkins was a soldier in the U.S. Army, who received the Medal of Honor for his action in the Vietnam War. He was serving as a sergeant first class at the time of his Medal of Honor action, which took place in 1966.
SFC Bennie Gene Adkins Background  
Adkins. Public Domain.
Adkins was a native of Waurika, Oklahoma. After entering the military in 1956, he PCS’d to a garrison unit in Germany. He later went on to serve with the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Georgia. There, he attended Airborne School and volunteered for Special Forces in 1961.

Altechna has been chosen to join the TALOS-TWO project, a European Defence Fund initiative valued at €25m ($26.69m).

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Several factors go into demand for immortalization of a West Point graduate in the form of a statue or some other monument. Most seem to revolve around excellence in leadership and/or heroism regarding combat. Statues honoring Grant, MacArthur, Patton, and Eisenhower are some of the better known ones that cadets and tourists enjoy in their walks around the campus. There are other monuments to famous graduates that do not involve combat.

The US Army Applications Laboratory has contracted Mach Industries to create a vertical take-off (VTO) cruise missile named Strategic Strike.