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Courses that were a part of the minor included ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Society,’ ‘Diversity and Security,’ and ‘Gender and Sexuality in History.’
The decision comes right on the heels of West Point also shutting down its Diversity and Inclusion Studies minor.

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The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado has removed the “Diversity and Inclusion Studies” minor from its official list of “majors and minors.” 
The minor was available on the website as late as Jan. 9, but as of Jan. 24 is no longer being offered.

The Army UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter that fatally collided with an American Airlines passenger plane Wednesday night over the Potomac River was not equipped with experimental autonomous flight capabilities, defense officials familiar with the ongoing federal investigation told DefenseScoop.
There’s said to be no survivors in the aftermath of the tragic crash, which happened around 9:00 p.m. local time on a notoriously highly-congested flight path in the National Capital Region. The Army is closely supporting the U.S.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Building out the Navy’s maritime operations centers is a top priority for the service and will be critical to enabling successful operations across vast battlespaces and against sophisticated adversaries, according to senior officials.
The chief of naval operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, in her Navigation Plan released late last year outlined that the MOC will be the “center” to how the Navy fights in a distributed manner.

A former armor officer and Ivy League lawyer in line to be the next secretary of the Army said that he spent the night before his Senate confirmation hearing studying up on an Army’s field manual: FM 3-0, Operations. The 350-page manual, which is written by senior Army leaders and updated every few years, is the central planning document that lays out the doctrine and goals that define the jobs of the service’s million-plus soldiers.

The Navy is preparing to create a new unit focused on small unmanned surface vessels amid a push by the chief of naval operations to bring more robotic and autonomous systems into the fleet.
Unmanned Surface Vessel Squadron 7 is slated to be established in May in San Diego, California, according to service officials.
The organization will be “primarily tasked with operating and maintaining” a variety of small USVs, a Navy official told DefenseScoop.
That includes Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft and “future RAS systems,” the official said.
Maritime Applied Physics Corp.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — As part of ongoing efforts to modernize its network, the Marine Corps wants more centralized monitoring to alleviate the burden for forces on the battlefield.
Commands at the tactical edge don’t always have the resources or the know-how to deal with the sophisticated digital threats facing the network.
“Our adversary is certainly not standing still. They’ve been watching us for quite some time and they’re up to some things and they’re evolving quite a bit … What we know now is that the adversaries will get into the systems and they’ll go dormant and sleep.

Flat-earthers tend to get all the attention these days, and I don’t begrudge them their fame. But I regret that it comes at the expense of the hollow earth crowd, whose driving geologic theory is at once far more plausible and far more insane. For those who did not spend the last several hours following the same internet rabbit hole I did all the way down into the center of the earth, the basic tenets of the hollow earth theory are: The Earth is hollow. The hollow part can be accessed via giant holes in the North and South Poles.

One grandfather in Michigan isn’t letting distance or regulations get in the way of supporting his grandchild. 
Retired small business owner Mark Rantz knows what it takes to be an entrepreneur, so when he found out his granddaughter, Eloise, 10, was selling Girl Scout cookies, he knew they would place an order – they just didn’t know it would be for two dozen boxes.
Earlier this year, the West Point Garrison Commander denied the Girl Scouts on base the ability to conduct cookie sales door-to-door as it goes against the solicitation policies of the esteemed military academy.

Daniel Driscoll, nominee to lead the Army during President Donald Trump’s second term, told lawmakers that the service should purchase more non-developmental solutions for drones and other technologies to help speed the delivery of new capabilities to soldiers.
The commander-in-chief has said he expects Driscoll to be a “disruptor and change agent” at the Pentagon as secretary of the Army.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Following the establishment of a dedicated work role for cyber personnel, the Navy is beginning to focus on building a full career path for sailors in that field — all the way up to flag officer — which also involves the creation of a new task force.
For years, the Navy was the only service that didn’t have its own work role for cyber warriors conducting operations as part of its contribution to the cyber mission force, the teams each service provides to U.S. Cyber Command.