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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in partnership with the Israel Defense Forces on Jan. 23 kicked off Juniper Oak 23.2, the biggest joint U.S.-Israel exercise in history. An ominous formation of B-52 bombers was seen by plane spotters this week while en route to the event where the aircraft joined a wide array of other assets to support readiness and interoperability between the two allies.
In the awesome clip shared on Twitter on Jan. 25, seven B-52 Stratofortress bombers can be seen flying east across the sky over New Jersey.

The US will send 31 Abrams M1 main battle tanks (MBT) to aid Ukrainian forces. (US Army)
The US will send 31 M1 Abrams main battle tanks (MBTs) to Ukraine in the coming months, but the Pentagon is still weighing how the equipment will get there, the US Army’s top acquisition official said.
Hours after Germany announced it would send Leopard 2s to the battlefield, US President Joe Biden’s administration said it would send enough of its primary tank to make up one Ukrainian tank battalion as part of a USD400 million security assistance package.

Throughout Russia’s 11-month-long war, Ukraine has repeatedly lobbied for US-made fighter jets like the F-15 and F-16. Soon there may be a new push.
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If you have a loved one bound for basic training, you may find yourself struggling to find ways to show your support. If military service isn’t something you’ve done or been around much throughout your life, the transition from civilian to service member can seem awfully mysterious (or even downright confusing). Trust me, it’s a […]
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The Pentagon has provided updated guidance for Defense officials who will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, acquisition, testing, fielding and employment of autonomous weapon systems — and created a new working group to facilitate senior-level reviews of the technology.
The move comes as the U.S. military is embracing artificial intelligence, unmanned platforms and other tech that could give weapon systems much more autonomy than those of previous eras.
The updated DOD Directive 3000.

The Defense Information Systems Agency is adding generative artificial intelligence to its forthcoming mid-year fiscal 2023 tech watch list.
Generative AI can best be exemplified by the ChatGPT function that is taking the internet by storm. Users can give the technology a prompt such as asking it to write a song in the style of an artist or, as Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., recently did for an Op-Ed warning about certain aspects of AI, ask it to “[w]rite an attention grabbing first paragraph of an Op-Ed on why artificial intelligence should be regulated.

Presidents Biden and Trump were both discovered to have carelessly handled classified intelligence reports.
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The Defense Innovation Unit transitioned a record 17 prototypes to fully fielded military capabilities in fiscal 2022 according to a new annual report that broadly spotlights how the Silicon Valley hub is steadily boosting the Pentagon’s adoption of commercial technologies.
And in 2023, DIU fully expects to build on that momentum, acting Director Mike Madsen told DefenseScoop in conjunction with the report’s release.
“DIU continues to see an uptick in the number of projects and organizations understanding the need to modernize and change.

Microsoft Office 365, which is used widely across the U.S. military since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, now supports secret-level workloads across the Defense Department.
The cloud computing giant announced Wednesday that 365 now meets the cloud security requirements set under DOD’s Impact Level 6, which allows cloud vendors to work with the department’s classified data up to the secret level.

A group of M1 Abrams tanks sit in a holding area after being offloaded from the freighter ship “Resolve” at the port of Antwerp April 24. The third-generation battle tanks will move onward to Coleman Barracks in Mannheim, Germany, and will become part of the European Activity Set, a combined-arms group of vehicles and equipment that are pre-positioned in Europe to outfit U.S Army regionally aligned forces when they rotate into Europe for training or contingency operations. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Warren W. Wright Jr., 21st TSC Public Affairs). US Army / Staff Sgt. Warren W. Wright Jr.