Military service members charged at least $500,000 on gambling, drinking, nightclubs and online games to their government travel charge cards in recent months without triggering alarms among finance officials, an inspector general report found.
The report, “Audit of the DoD Government Travel Charge Card Program: The Visa IntelliLink Compliance Management System,” tracked not only authorized expenditures using government travel charge cards, but also abuses of the cards, with service members spending large sums of money, including on major holidays.
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Army Technology
L3Harris Falcon IV Family of Radios are part of the Army’s HMS program.
Pomerleau, DefenseScoop
Marines want to leverage 5G capabilities to enhance their tactical operations.
Gary Anderson, The American Spectator
General Eric Smith denied the existence of DEI programming in the Marine Corps, disgracing himself and the entire Corps in the process.
Carter Johnston, Naval News
The U.S. Navy’s premier hypersonic missile program, SM-6 Block IB, based on the SM-6 Block IA, has a new look, seen for the first time at SNA 2025.
The U.S. Coast Guard has started flying detained migrants to deportation sites in Texas and California this weekend, in support of a wider operation to deport undocumented migrants in the United States.
The move follows an emergency declaration by President Donald Trump regarding the southern border with Mexico. In a statement to Task & Purpose, the Coast Guard said that it began “alien expulsion flights” on Jan. 25. The Eleventh Coast Guard District in California is currently the lead command on this, according to the Coast Guard.
Secretary of Defense Hegseth just penned an iconic and historic note
I worked a number of Secretary Rumsfeld Snowflakes. I found them quite appropriate and reasonable. He was trying to get the largest singular bureaucracy in the world, the Department of Defense.
I had Secretary Rumsfeld autograph his last Snowflake for me.
Secretary Hegseth just put this on “X”.
The guidance is clear, simple, actionable, and lawful.
DEI is dead and to be eliminated, period.
Anyone who tries to circumvent this lawful order will be gone.
A defense tech CEO shared a memorable insight with me over coffee last year: “Selling to government is like fighting a toddler.” Just as a toddler needs food and sleep to survive and thrive, the Defense Department has clear requirements for what it needs to deter and win wars, and thereby allow the country to survive and thrive. Yet, navigating that process is exasperating and maddening — like negotiating with a toddler in the middle of a tantrum. Ultimately, this comes down to people and their incentives.
It is no secret that the American commercial shipbuilding industry is struggling. The U.S. Merchant Marine fleet is small, aging, and will be unable to provide the U.S. military with significant additional sealift capability during wartime. China’s large shipbuilding industry and its expanding fleet of dual-use merchant marine vessels are likely to provide it with a strategic edge in the event of a conflict, and its dominance over the United States in shipbuilding has been recognized by both the Biden and Trump administrations.