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Audrey Decker, Defense One
Spokesman says Col. Charles Clegg’s removal “is not directly related” to the program’s ballooning costs.

Harrison Kass, TNI
The B-52J, the latest variant of the B-52 Stratofortress, will begin test flights in 2028 and become operational by 2033.

A.C. Karp & N.W. Zamiska, Washington Post
Autonomous weapons will be built. The only questions are who will build them and for what purpose.

U.S. troops who were convicted under a now-defunct military law that targeted gay service members will receive formal pardons, the White House announced Wednesday.
“Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “Despite their courage and great sacrifice, thousands of LGBTQI+ service members were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The hypersonic arms race is in full swing: Countries around the world are investing staggering amounts of money into hypersonic weapons. And these are no longer limited to Russia, China, and the United States. The United Kingdom launched its own hypersonic initiative in 2023, while the Japanese defense ministry requested about 80 billion yen ($547 million) for the development and production of hypersonic weapons in fiscal year 2024.

A bell rang eight times as a small crowd of Army Green Berets and family members stood by silently. After each bell, a voice called out a Combat Diver’s name, each a soldier who died during the six decades that the Army’s most elite soldiers have trained for at Special Forces Underwater Operations school in Key West.
The simple ceremony earlier this month at the Florida compound dedicated a memorial to those students, the first of its kind in the Army’s small but tight knit Combat Diver community.

Data from the ADS Group reveal the scale of Defence’s contribution to the UK economy, and chart the progress over the last 10 years.

BAGHDAD – Two soldiers deployed to Syria jumped in to save a local man from a grisly fate after one of his arms became stuck in a running generator.
The incident took place on March 24 at a U.S. military base in northeast Syria where Sgt. Lauren Shalabi and Spc. Heather Tarasewicz are both assigned. The two soldiers spoke to Task & Purpose last week
Shalabi, who is assigned to the New Jersey National Guard’s 250th Brigade Support Battalion, said she was about to eat a salad at an on-base market when its owner came looking for help.

BALTIMORE — As it begins transitioning to a zero-trust cybersecurity framework, the Defense Department is looking to implement a new process that will continuously assess and validate zero-trust solutions after they are fielded.
The Pentagon’s zero trust portfolio management is moving quickly to assess and validate zero-trust solutions created by industry vendors to reach what it considers “target levels” of zero trust before the end of fiscal 2027.