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The Pentagon’s proposed $1.5 trillion budget for next fiscal year includes funding to fix longstanding problems with barracks, defense officials recently told reporters.
The budget calls for spending $57 billion on U.S. military bases and other facilities, a large portion of which would go toward addressing “critical updates” identified by the Pentagon’s barracks task force established by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a senior military official told reporters on Friday.

President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced Ed Yeilding to the SR-71 Blackbird. Thus began a wonderful, long-lasting relationship.
When LBJ announced the development of a “super plane” capable of traveling at more than 2,000 mph, Yeilding was still in high school and living in Alabama. He couldn’t turn away from the news conference.
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Yeilding was so intrigued that he made a vow to himself that day.

Soldiers in the 1st Cavalry Division will soon get their hands on the latest versions of the Army’s Abrams tank and the first prototypes of the infantry combat vehicle.
Soldiers with the division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team at Fort Hood, Texas, will begin training with prototypes of the new XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle and M1E3 Abrams tank this fall.

China controls 99 percent of the world’s primary gallium, a critical mineral and semiconductor crucial for building the microchips of the future. In 2023, it placed export controls on gallium to retaliate against American restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China. In December 2024, China escalated to an outright ban on gallium exports to the United States. The U.S. National Defense Stockpile had zero gallium reserves when that ban landed.The United States has been here before. The United States pioneered and scaled modern silicon semiconductor infrastructure.