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Dems make fools of themselves
As Senator Markwayne Mullin pointed out, Senators have shown up drunk, had affairs, and divorced their wives, they never were kicked out of Congress.
Pete Hegseth dominated and the Dems sounded like screeching Karens (not just Senator Kaine)
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For decades, the United States has relied on airpower and the qualitative superiority of its aircraft to gain an advantage over its adversaries. But that advantage is rapidly eroding. The Chinese military is fielding sophisticated air defense networks that include robust passive defenses, challenging sensors, and highly capable missiles and aircraft. In fact, by our calculations, the amount of concrete used by China to improve the resilience of its air base network could pave a four-lane highway from Washington, D.C. to Chicago.
The Army is assessing a range of generative artificial intelligence tools and platforms to determine how the technology can streamline business operations and make them readily available to the service.
Known as Project Athena, the pilot aims to evaluate the use cases and cost models of commercially available genAI tech that can be used to support the service’s back-end office work. The effort is being led by the Army’s Chief Information Officer Leonel Garciga alongside the Office of Enterprise Management (OEM).
The Ukraine-Russia conflict has been the most intense two-way drone war in human history, with unmanned aerial systems being employed by both sides on a large scale for one-way attacks and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
The Biden administration has committed more than $65 billion worth of security assistance to Kyiv since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly three years ago, including thousands of UAS platforms via presidential drawdown authority and USAI funds.
As the Army gears up to begin awarding contracts for its Next Generation Command and Control initiative, it is asking industry for feedback to help guide its program of record.
A request for information, released Monday, seeks vendors’ input that aligns with NGC2 contracting priorities.
NGC2 is a top modernization priority for the Army.
Democratic lawmakers raised questions on Tuesday about Pete Hegseth’s ability to lead the Defense Department based on his past experiences managing two veterans service organizations.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Hegseth, a former Army infantry officer, to be the next secretary of defense. Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing.
Hegseth previously served as executive director of Vets For Freedom from 2007 to 2010, and then CEO of Concerned Veterans for America from 2012 to 2015.
In 1994, Frank Butler was wheeled into an operating room for knee surgery on a torn meniscus — the result of running too hard with his sons at Fripp Island, South Carolina. A Navy SEAL and medical doctor, Butler watched the surgical team prep him for the procedure, feeling the sedatives set in.
But even hazy from the medication, he noticed when they put a tourniquet on his leg.
“I was aware that both the military and the civilian sectors discouraged tourniquet use,” Butler told Task & Purpose. “But when I had my surgery done and they used the tourniquet on me, the light came on.
Two out of the three Humvees stolen from an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California, have been recovered, the Army Criminal Investigation Division confirmed to Task & Purpose on Tuesday.
The Tustin Police Department confirmed that two soft-sided Humvees were recovered after they were stolen earlier this month. An up-armored Humvee is still at large — along with eight machine gun vehicle mounts, seven free-standing machine gun tripods, 18 bayonets, 40 pairs of binoculars, and medical supplies.
Leading up to his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, Pete Hegseth — the network TV presenter who President-elect Donald Trump picked to serve as the next U.S. defense secretary — told lawmakers that he would move to modernize the Pentagon’s data and cyber infrastructure and enable AI adoption for a range of national security endeavors, if he’s approved for the high-stakes role.
DefenseScoop reviewed Hegseth’s answers to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s advanced policy questions (APQs) that were submitted to Congress ahead of his testimony.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a legend in the world of military airlift. It is only the fifth aircraft (after the English Electric Canberra, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker) to reach 50 years of continuous service with its original primary customer, the U.S. Air Force in the case of the C-130. Entering Air Force service in 1956, the Hercules continues to serve as the U.S. military’s primary tactical airlifter. The versatile platform has even been converted for use as an aerial firefighter, gunship, and meteorological aircraft.