MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin spent much of Friday touring the Defense Innovation Unit’s Silicon Valley headquarters, where he observed commercial counter-drone technology demonstrations and participated in closed-door discussions with the hub’s director Doug Beck and several top portfolio leads.
The visit came a day after Austin issued a new classified strategy laying out the department’s contemporary approach for defeating intensifying uncrewed system threats to U.S. military personnel and assets.
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Mark Milley should be recalled to service, court-martialed, punished, and publicly dishonored in order to prevent a resurgence of the corrosive principle of leftist military partisanship.
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In dealing with his enemies in the Deep State, President Trump could follow one of two paths. One would be the path of peace, reconciliation, and forgiveness. This would certainly be easier in the short term and also garner approval from insiders and the media.
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Palantir and Anduril, vendors whose stars are rising in the defense tech world as the U.S. military pursues a sweeping array of new AI tools, announced a new partnership Friday aimed at combining some of their respective platforms for national security use cases.
The teaming initiative, which the companies are calling a “consortium,” is emerging as the firms separately continue to rack up big contract wins with the Pentagon.
The crew of the USS Carney thought they were headed for a normal deployment, and by “normal,” at least some of the crew was thinking about fun off the boat. At least that’s what Fire Controlman 2nd Class Kameron Miller, a Mk. 160 gun console technician on his first deployment, was thinking.
“I’ve only heard stories, but I expected to pull into ports and party a little bit,” said Miller. “That was not quite the case.”
It was not.
Miller and the Carney left Naval Station Mayport, Florida on Sept. 27. On Oct.