Browsing: All news

Christian D.

Palantir and Anduril, vendors whose stars are rising in the defense tech world as the U.S. military pursues a sweeping array of new AI tools, announced a new partnership Friday aimed at combining some of their respective platforms for national security use cases.
The teaming initiative, which the companies are calling a “consortium,” is emerging as the firms separately continue to rack up big contract wins with the Pentagon.

The crew of the USS Carney thought they were headed for a normal deployment, and by “normal,” at least some of the crew was thinking about fun off the boat. At least that’s what Fire Controlman 2nd Class Kameron Miller, a Mk. 160 gun console technician on his first deployment, was thinking.
“I’ve only heard stories, but I expected to pull into ports and party a little bit,” said Miller. “That was not quite the case.”
It was not.
Miller and the Carney left Naval Station Mayport, Florida on Sept. 27. On Oct.

Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** The recent release of “Gladiator II” was accompanied by a deluge of articles finding fault with its historical accuracy. As a number of historians noted, there really were naval battles in the Colosseum, but there is no evidence of sharks.

A Texas man who pretended to be a former member of an Army Delta Force unit and offered to protect families from Mexican drug cartels was sentenced to 40 years in prison, Department of Justice officials announced.
Saint Jovite Youngblood, also known as Kota Youngblood, 52, defrauded 32 people out of $12 million by offering his protection to families that he convinced were under threat by drug cartels and claiming that “investors” would repay their money with significant returns. Instead, he used a majority of the money to gamble in Las Vegas casinos, federal officials said in a release.

Austin is concerned about Trump’s willingness to use the military to enforce the U.S. border. The Constitution requires the military to do precisely that.

Secretary of Defense Austin admonished cadets to defend the Constitution in a recent West Point, NY speech. His statement comes at a time when Biden administration officials display increasing concerns over Trump using the military to help secure the Southern Border of the United States.

The US State Department will provide a further $4bn in FMF funds to Poland ahead of a transition to the protectionist Trump administration.

Welcome back to The Pentagon Rundown! Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become the next defense secretary may be in jeopardy following allegations of mismanagement when he was CEO of Concerned Veterans for America and reports that his colleagues at Fox News are concerned about his drinking — all of which Hegseth has denied.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering replacing Hegseth with Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to the Wall Street Journal.

UK-based defence technology company Hadean has entered into an agreement valued at up to £20m ($25.54m) with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).

ST Engineering has a partnership with KPE to establish local production capabilities for a new 8×8 amphibious multi-purpose armoured vehicle.