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Host L Todd Wood speaks to Tom Burbage and Bruce Davey of Calvert Task Group on efforts to save the Naval Academy from Maoist destruction. We preview their upcoming book release – ‘Don’t Give Up The Ship’.
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The Department of the Navy recently changed leadership for two critical information warfare organizations.
On Friday, Lt. Gen. Melvin Carter assumed his new role as the Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for information. He most recently served as deputy director for combat support at the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate.
Carter succeeds Lt. Gen. Matthew Glavy, who has held the position since 2021 and will retire after a 38-year career in the military.

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a defense spending bill for fiscal 2025 Thursday that would provide “full funding” for the Pentagon’s high-profile autonomous systems initiatives known as Replicator — and lawmakers raised the possibility that even more money could be allotted for the effort.
Pentagon officials have already secured roughly $500 million from Congress for fiscal 2024 to move forward with tranche one, and they requested an additional $500 million for fiscal 2025. Tranche one includes kamikaze drones, unmanned surface vessels and counter-drone systems.

Maj. Gen. Ryan Janovic assumed command of the Army Cyber Center of Excellence in a ceremony at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia, on Friday.
Janovic recently served as the director of operations at U.S. Cyber Command.
In his new position, he’ll be responsible for furthering the modernization of cyber, electronic warfare and communications from a doctrine and training perspective.

Two National Guard soldiers died in Iraq from separate “non-combat” related incidents, Army officials said Friday. 
Details of the incidents were not released but both soldiers were in the Georgia National Guard and died in Baghdad on Wednesday, the Army said.
Spc. Travis Jordan Pameni, 23, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, which is based in Macon, Georgia. Spc. Owen James Elliott, 23, was assigned to 1st Battalion, 118th Field Artillery Regiment, in Savannah, Georgia.

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An Army NCO whose full-time job in uniform is teaching soldiers how to shoot won the silver medal in Women’s Three-Position Rifle at the Paris Olympics.
Sgt. Sagen Maddalena, who is a marksmanship instructor at Fort Moore, Georgia, took second place in the Olympic event after setting an Olympic record with her qualification score of 593-45x. Switzerland’s Chiara Leone won the gold with China’s Qiongyue Zhang earning bronze.
Once in the Final, Maddalena held the lead through the first 10 shots.