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Rheinmetall’s new initiative in Hungary indicates a wider change as the company strengthens its partnership with the Hungarian government.

We are not yet at a paradigm-shifting moment in the role of autonomous or robotic systems at sea. Nor are we likely to reach a revolutionary precipice within the period in which the U.S. Navy must begin making the transition to a truly hybrid fleet — that is, the integration of autonomous platforms designed to operate as part of an ocean-going battle force. This means the Navy’s approach to acquiring and fielding unmanned systems for deployment at sea should ultimately reinforce and support the maritime domain’s still-dominant weapons system: long-range anti-ship missiles.

Both Army officers and enlisted soldiers are taught that the My Lai Massacre, in which U.S. soldiers killed more than 500 Vietnamese civilians, can never happen again.
The Army charged 25 people in connection with the March 16, 1968 incident, but only one soldier was convicted in a military court martial: Lt. William L. Calley Jr.
News emerged Monday that Calley died in April. Calley’s death at 80 was not publicized by the Army and was first reported by the Washington Post.
In the decades since Calley’s 1971 court-martial, professors at the U.S.

The U.S. women’s rugby team just won its first Olympic medal with the help of an Army captain. 
In a stunning win, the U.S. women’s rugby sevens team upset Australia to win the bronze medal Tuesday, 14-12. Team USA scored on the game’s final play to win.
One of the stars of the team’s run was Samantha Sullivan, an active duty Army captain and 2020 West Point graduate, where she was an All American rugby player for head coach Bill LeClerc.
LeClerc told Task & Purpose that Sullivan came to rugby only after she was cut from the school’s soccer team, but became a starter early on.

Katie Rubin was suspended from a rope 150 meters up a rugged cliffside in a remote Laos jungle when she spotted the human bones. 
“I was attached via a relatively short sewn runner to a fixed line that had been placed by one of our six-foot-something team members,” Rubin said. “I noticed what looked like possible skeletal material on the surface at the edge of a drop-off.”
Rubin was lowering down the face of a sheer mountain that was once Lima Site 85, a top-secret Air Force radio site in the Vietnam War.

An artificial intelligence hub led by the Department of the Air Force and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is opening its doors to Marine Corps participation, according to a Tuesday announcement.
Until recently, the only active-duty members of the military tapped to participate in the DAF-MIT AI Accelerator were airmen and guardians. However, two Marines have been selected to be part of the next cohort of so-called “Phantoms.

Next-generation drones known as collaborative combat aircraft are expected to have major operational impacts on the Air Force — but the commander of U.S. air forces in Europe and Africa also anticipates significant changes for maintenance and training as the systems are integrated into the service.
CCAs are a top modernization priority for the Air Force, which is spending billions of dollars on the technology and hopes to begin fielding the platforms in the next few years.

DAYTON, Ohio — The Air Force is still committed to fielding a manned Next Generation Air Dominance platform, but it’s possible the service could develop an unmanned or “optionally crewed” version of the new fighter jet as well, the department’s top civilian official said Tuesday.
“I’m absolutely confident we’re still going to do a sixth-generation crewed aircraft,” Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said during a keynote speech at the Air Force Life Cycle Industry Days. “There’s a chance it might be uncrewed, but I think that’s not quite ready yet.

Pentagon leadership recently selected longtime strategic planner and military workforce expert Julie Cruz to serve as the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s new director of business operations, making her the first official to take on that job title for the organization.
“The Director of Business Operations is a maturation of the previous ‘resource management’ position,” a CDAO spokesperson told DefenseScoop on Monday. “This transition is part of a broader effort inside CDAO to institutionalize good governance processes.

The Marine who died of his injuries following a Humvee rollover on Saturday has been identified as Staff Sgt. Jerry L. Betzold.
Betzold, 26, was the only Marine injured when his Humvee rolled over at Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Twentynine Palms in California, Corps officials said.
At the time of his death, Betzold was assigned to the Tactical Training Exercise Control Group, or TTECG, at Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Twentynine Palms, according to a Marine Corps news release.