The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command and European Command are first in line to receive new generative artificial intelligence capabilities delivered by Scale AI and its industry partners via the Thunderforge initiative, the Defense Innovation Unit announced Wednesday.
DIU — a Silicon Valley-headquartered organization which has embedded personnel at Indo-Pacom and Eucom to help tackle some of the combatant commands’ tech-related challenges — issued a solicitation for Thunderforge last year via its commercial solutions opening contracting mechanism.
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If you’ve ever done a PCS, you already know: damages happen. Something will break, get lost, or show up looking like it got run over by a tank. And the worst part? You’re already drowning in paperwork, unpacking chaos, and the existential crisis of figuring out where the forks went. Filing a PCS damage claim is the last thing you want to deal with, but if you don’t do it right (and fast), you’re leaving money on the table.
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The U.S. Navy has used more missiles for air defense since combat operations in the Red Sea began in October 2023 than the service used in all the years since Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s, said retired Navy Cmdr. Bryan Clark, of the Hudson Institute.
Over that 15-month-period, which ran from Oct. 19, 2023 to Jan. 19, 2025, the Navy saw the most combat at sea since World War II, Clark told Task & Purpose.
“It’s kind of amazing how the Navy has held up with no losses, but the cost has been pretty enormous,” Clark said.
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“He [General Berger] and his staff offered thin public evidence of objective analysis to justify big decisions like divesting tanks and artillery.
Owen West & Nathan Ecelbarger, RealClearDefense
Given an hour to solve a problem, Einstein quipped, “I’d spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about…
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Although the Pentagon says it intends to deploy its first hypersonic weapon by Sept.
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Trump wants America to bend steel and build like it used to.
On Feb. 20, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced, per guidance from the Department of Government Efficiency, an 8 percent reduction to programs not related to 17 priority items he has identified to spare from the downsizing efforts. He emphasized that the department is particularly looking to cut “non-lethal programs.” In accordance with the emphasis on lethality, the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Plan and its associated Center for Excellence have been tagged for elimination.
“In a world characterized by unpredictability and increasingly frequent surprise, there are heavy penalties for ponderous decision making and slow execution.” –Richard Danzig The U.S. Air Force is losing the race to field a crewed sixth-generation fighter jet to China. If it loses this race, it will be qualitatively outmatched by the Chinese air force. The U.S. Air Force needs to resurrect the Digital Century Series, which would allow the service to buy and build aircraft using a process-centric, iterative acquisitions strategy.