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The Pentagon is reducing the funds withheld from Lockheed Martin Corp. for F-35s jets by $1.

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Will the Trump administration try to break the so-called “axis of upheaval”?  The Russo-Ukrainian War has catalyzed the consolidation of two sets of adversarial geopolitical alignments, however loose or imperfect they might be. On the one hand, a pan-Eurasian group of authoritarian or revisionist powers, comprising Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, has colluded in armed aggression and territorial conquest in Europe. As others have noted, Beijing, Pyongyang and Tehran have enabled Russia’s war machine and defense industrial base in a variety of ways both directly and indirectly.

The Air Force will soon require airmen and Space Force guardians with medical profiles for shaving to be evaluated every year by a healthcare professional to renew their waivers, according to an Air Force memo shared on social media.
The change represents a rollback of the waivers, which since 2020 have been issued for five years without annual renewals.
An Air Force official confirmed to Task & Purpose that the memo is authentic.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday night tasking the Pentagon to build a plan for a multilayered missile defense system underpinned by both space-based sensors and interceptors.
Under the directive, titled “Iron Dome for America,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is required to develop “a reference architecture, capabilities-based requirements and an implementation plan” to address emerging aerial threats against the U.S. homeland.

A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. Chinese start-up DeepSeek recently made headlines with the release of its latest AI large language model, prompting much handwringing in the United States as policymakers and technology leaders expressed concern that China might be surging ahead in commercial AI competition.

Almost as soon as 1st Sgt. Michael Meegan entered the room, the bad guy was on him.
Meegan, then a private with just a few months in the Army, was among a handful of other young soldiers training in a shoothouse during Ranger Assessment and Selection Program, or RASP, in 2010.
The bad guy was another student and a friend of his — and was wearing a supposed ‘knock-out proof” suit designed to let the wearer take heavy blows during hand-to-hand training.
“They are supposed to be knockout-proof. I can tell you they’re not,” Meegan told Task & Purpose.

President Donald Trump issued two orders to the Pentagon Monday, one declaring transgender service members as disqualified for military service, and the second abolishing all offices in the Department of Defense dealing with diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.
The two orders were among a flurry of edicts signed by Trump Monday night, including a third aimed at the Pentagon that cleared the way for troops booted from the military over COVID-19 to be reinstated with back pay.

The use of cope cages to deter threats by small drones on the battlefield is being actively trialled by the UK on its Challenger 2 tanks.