Defense Innovation Board experts might soon conduct new studies delving into complex military drone topics, two officials confirmed following a closed-door meeting this week in which uncrewed systems-related challenges dominated much of the discussion.
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Project 2025, a policy guide that could be the blueprint for a Donald Trump second term, would revamp the Department of Veterans of Affairs with proposals to increase privatization, narrow the eligibility criteria for health benefits and replace civil service-style employees with political appointees in its leadership ranks. The document begins with an historical summary of the Department of Veterans Affairs and its current challenges meeting an aging, migrating population of veterans while modernizing and keeping costs within its budget.
Project 2025, a series of policy recommendations for the next Republican president facilitated by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, has moved to the center stage of the U.S. presidential election. The plan’s authors include dozens of conservative from the first Trump administration, while it has been assailed by Democrats.
A Task & Purpose review of Project 2025’s plan for the Pentagon and active duty troops finds a number of starkly partisan changes already pushed by Republicans.
Some Pentagon components appear to be unaffected by outages to Microsoft systems caused by a faulty update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software, but the Department of Defense says it is still closely watching its IT systems in the meantime.
“DoD is aware of the reporting and personnel are monitoring our networks for possible impacts. For operational security reasons, we do not comment on the status of our network operations, information systems or operations to assess cyber threats,” a department spokesperson told DefenseScoop in an email.
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A recent exercise in the Pacific region provided the U.S. military and international partners one of the first chances to truly game out the Pentagon’s new warfare concept for connecting forces and capabilities on a grand scale.
Valiant Shield, which occurred in mid-June, is a biennial exercise focused on integration between the services in a multi-domain environment in the Pacific region. This year’s exercise, the tenth such event, involved multinational partners for the first time. It allowed American forces and foreign militaries — including participation from U.S.
Air defence systems were specifically mentioned as being an early targeted for procurement using the new UK-backed revenue stream.
A sailor from a landlocked state and a soldier from a state with the country’s second longest coastline are trying to accomplish something transformative for American seapower. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) are leading an important bi-partisan and bi-cameral effort to revitalize American shipbuilding and maritime strategy. They were kind enough join Ryan for a substantive and wide-ranging conversation. Read their report on national maritime strategy. Image: Midjourney
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Taiwan is upgrading its military in response to provocations from China, with a specific emphasis on its Army, Air Force, and Navy.
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