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Raytheon, an RTX business, has reached full manufacturing capacity for the latest SM-3 Block IIA ballistic missile interceptor iteration.

Infrastructure failure is inevitable. National defense missions rely upon infrastructure — such as water, electricity, communications, and logistics — and those systems are guaranteed to fail under sufficient stress. Hazards range from weather, cyber attack, equipment faults, assault, disinformation, and curious animals. When infrastructure fails, mission systems and personnel will scramble to adapt — especially during critical activities, such as a mobility surge. At the same time, infrastructure operators will rush to recover their systems.

After years of supporting your spouse’s career, navigating PCS orders, and adapting to military life’s rhythms, it’s finally time to focus on you. Maybe you’ve set up homes in San Diego, Virginia Beach, Okinawa, or somewhere entirely different. No matter where you’ve lived, you’ve put so much energy into creating a life around the military, but now that chapter is closing. You get to decide what the next one looks like without the uniform shaping it. Whether you’re pumped or feeling a little lost, it’s totally normal.

Balancing military life with a side gig might seem like an impossible task, but with the rise of creator marketplaces and AI tools, juggling both is now more manageable than ever. Whether you’re an active service member looking to supplement your income or a military spouse seeking flexibility, today’s tech can help streamline your workflow, save time, and maximize productivity. We’re bringing you the best tools and strategies for balancing military life and side hustles, with a focus on platforms and AI tools that are making a real difference.

A 10-year-old retired military working dog has finally been reunited with his beloved handler after more than two years apart.
In 2018, U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Fletcher, a K-9 handler, was paired with Dasty (rhymes with “nasty”), a Dutch Shepherd, while stationed at Fort Huachuca in Cochise County, Arizona – but it wasn’t love at first sight for the pair.
There was a period of adjustment and bonding and it took about three months before Dasty began to trust and listen to Fletcher, who had previously been paired with two other dogs.

Alisha Houston is a real estate professional in the Atlanta area, a West Point grad and former U.S. Army officer.
She also is a contributor to CDM’s Armed Forces Press, and The Georgia Record.
Houston talked shop with President Trump at the recent Georgia town hall for women, and asked him about foreign policy and asked him to ensure he picks non-woke generals in the future.

A force restructuring that shifted soldiers from other jobs into air defense more than doubled last year. In fiscal year 2024, 173 soldiers voluntarily reclassified into air defense positions, up from just 73 the year before, officials told Task & Purpose. The Army has specifically been prioritizing moving soldiers into long-range air defense positions over short-range, Col. Don Fagnan from Army Human Resource Command told Task & Purpose. The restructure targeted overcrowded military occupational specialties like cavalry scouts.

The Army’s chief information office is about to publish a memorandum that establishes two pilot efforts aimed at streamlining the service’s continuous authority to operate (cATO) processes, as well as lay the foundation for other programs to join in.
Speaking during a panel Wednesday at the annual AUSA conference, Army CIO Leonel Garciga said the upcoming memo — set to release in the next two weeks — will approve two continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Search and rescue forces were looking Wednesday morning for the two-man crew of a Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare fighter that crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington on Tuesday. A Navy MH-60S helicopter and other search and rescue crews launched soon after the crash to search for the crew and examine the crash site.
A Navy spokesperson told Task & Purpose Wednesday that search and rescue efforts were “ongoing.”
The Navy released no details on the crash other than that the plane went down during a “routine training missing” just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday.

General Dynamics Mission Systems has integrated its electronic warfare kit into the Infantry Squad Vehicle, the first such capability to be outfitted to the light utility platform.
The electronic warfare kit is part of the Tactical Electronic Warfare System-Infantry Brigade Combat Team, or TEWS-I, which was initially a quick-reaction capability built by General Dynamics, providing a smaller system designed for infantry vehicles.