Defense officials are moving to institute a new and more data-informed performance management process to ensure that the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley-headquartered innovation hub can fully morph into its third iteration and speedily deliver commercial capabilities that get after the military’s most critical operational needs, two government officials told DefenseScoop on Thursday.
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Concealed carry is becoming a game-changer for military spouses. Not because they’re afraid but because they like having options. Just like PCS planning, Tricare workarounds, and knowing exactly which number to call when finance messes up your LES, concealed carry is another way to take control of the things that matter. And the more you dig into it, the more you realize it comes with perks that most civilians never get.
On the same day the UK government spoke of Ukraine’s “irreversible path” to join Nato, US President Donald Trump took a different stance.
Gene Hackman passed on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at the age of 95, along with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, and their dog at their home in New Mexico. At this time, no foul play is suspected, and they were found by local sheriff deputies conducting a welfare check on them. Gene and Betsy had been together for decades since their meeting in the mid-1980s and lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hackman leaves behind three adult children, Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean and Leslie Anne Hackman from his first marriage to Faye Maltese. Gene and Besty did not have any children from their marriage.
His lobbying efforts appear to violate The Hatch Act and Department of Defense Directive 1344.10
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On Monday, February 24th, Montana’s Adjutant General, Major General Hronek, provided the state’s House Energy, Technology, and Federal Relations committee members a tour of National Guard Aviation facilities in Helena and took them on a helicopter flight. This visit was coordinated with the committee’s Chairman, Representative Gary Parry of Colstrip.
Newly installed Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on Thursday issued a memo calling for all Defense Department components to scrub any diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) content from their websites and social media platforms.
By March 5 — next Wednesday — DOD components must take down all “news and feature articles, photos, and videos that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)” from the web, it states, calling the effort a “digital content refresh.
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On 29 June 2022, LTG Steven Gilland became the 61st Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. On 1 July 2022, just 2 days later, he attended his first quarterly Board of Visitors meeting where sexual harassment statistics and mitigation/prevention strategies were discussed as they have been for a long time. To be fair, the unacceptable problem has existed long before his tenure as Superintendent began in 2022.
The problem, sadly, is ongoing.
With a thunderous bang, a Navy F/A-18 slammed onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Feb. 16, snagging a steel wire with its tailhook to complete a “trap,” the Navy’s term for a safe landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Though carrier traps can be famously terrifying, the pilot of this F/A-18 was probably not particularly nervous. For Rear Adm. Michael Wosje, the landing was his 1,000th time piloting a plane onto a carrier deck, a milestone that put Wosje into one of the most exclusive lists in the U.S.
John Phelan, President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next secretary of the Navy, told Senate lawmakers that he sees opportunities for joint technology development on next-generation capabilities to support manned and unmanned platforms.
If confirmed, Phelan — a businessman and co-founder of MSD Capital — would take the helm of the department as it pursues new drones and a “hybrid fleet” of manned and unmanned systems, among other modernization efforts. Service leadership is also in flux in the wake of Trump’s firing of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti last week.