Top cyber officials on Tuesday outlined the stakes around the military’s digital hiring pipeline as the broader force attempts to implement a sweeping new talent-management model and the war with Iran nears its one-month mark.
In early March, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told reporters that members of U.S. Cyber Command were among the “first movers” in the current war against Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury.
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A major update to Army recruiting regulations this week raises the maximum age a recruit can join to 42, and removes a barrier to joining for recruits with a single legal conviction for marijuana or drug paraphernalia possession.
The Army’s previous limit was 35, though exceptions are occasionally made. The higher age limit brings the Army in line with other services’ limits of 41 in the Navy and 42 in the Air Force and Space Force, Kate Kuzminski, who studies military recruiting for the Center for a New American Security, told Task & Purpose.
The Army on Tuesday announced the official launch of a new online marketplace for the procurement of drones, as the service moves to boost its unmanned systems arsenal and the U.S. industrial base.
The Army collaborated with Amazon Web Services in developing the digital storefront, according to a press release.
AWS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Marketplace includes tools that “allow users to compare system functionalities, provide direct feedback, and place orders with ease,” officials wrote in the release.
All soldiers will now need approval from their supervisors before they can receive financial assistance under the Army’s Tuition Assistance program, which helps soldiers pay for taking higher education classes.
The new requirement for the program was one of several recent policy changes to the service’s regulation for the Army Continuing Education System, which oversees educational programs and services.
Federal agencies are being asked to do something deceptively complex: modernize their workforce and day-to-day business operations while remaining compliant, secure, and fiscally responsible.
Technology is often at the center of that conversation, but modernization is about more than swapping old systems for newer ones. It’s about choosing an architecture that can adapt over time—and continuously—to changing missions, policies, and workforce realities.
That’s where configuration outperforms customization in both the near term and the long term.
In a Defence Committee session, UK defence industry experts urged the Government to “ring fence” certain sovereign defence programmes.
The number of U.S. military personnel wounded in Operation Epic Fury continues to rise as the campaign against Iran approaches its fourth week.
As of Tuesday, 290 American service members have been wounded in the war, according to Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, U.S. Central Command’s spokesperson.
Hawkins told DefenseScoop that 255 of those injured troops — or about 88% — have returned to duty so far, while 10 remain seriously wounded.
Around two weeks ago, in mid-March, Centcom reported that at that time approximately 200 U.S.
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Amid speculation that President Trump could seek to force open the Strait of Hormuz by some kind of ultra high risk Kharg Island takeover operation, Fox chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has posted the following:
Fox News has learned that the Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division Maj Gen Brandon Tegtmeier and his “command element,” members of his headquarters staff, have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East as the Pentagon and White House weigh whether to send the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East for possible land operations.
The nuclear non-proliferation regime is a global framework of norms, practices, and diplomatic agreements — underpinned by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) — designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The regime has had both failures and successes over the decades. Perhaps the biggest challenge in recent years came from Iran. The country’s nuclear activities raised international concern, prompting diplomatic, economic, and covert efforts to constrain it.
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.