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The Pentagon is moving to reform senior military education and today issued a memorandum outlining changes to PME fellowships and certificate programs.
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on ‘Aligning Senior Service College Opportunities With American Values’
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Following Israel and the Untied States’ initiation of a coordinated large-scale military assault against Iran, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has conducted large scale ballistic missile attacks against Israel, and also targeted U.S. military bases in the Gulf region including in facilities Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Footage from countries across the region have shown explosions at the targeted bases, although the extent of the damage remains unknown.
The Department of Defense is blocking active-duty troops from attending graduate-level education at Ivy League schools and other top universities, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Friday.
Hegseth announced the move Friday afternoon in a video posted to social media. He accused the universities of being “breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination” and said that the ban would go into effect for the 2026-2027 academic year. The move effectively ends troops’ participation in higher learning at some of the top universities in the country.
Near a small town in Texas Wednesday, troops used a counter-drone system to shoot down an unmanned aerial system operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection which was launched without coordinating with the military task force assigned to the U.S.-Mexico border, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
Joint Task Force-Southern Border, the military entity charged with carrying out the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement in that area, was authorized to employ the anti-drone capability, according to the sources.
Summary and Key Points: Steve Balestrieri, a former US Army Special Forces officer and national security columnist, evaluates the Type 003 Fujian, China’s first aircraft carrier equipped with an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS).
-Despite its 280,000-horsepower propulsion and capability to launch the J-35 stealth fighter, the Fujian suffers from a flight deck layout that prevents simultaneous launch and recovery.
China’s Aircraft Carrier in Port. Image Credit: Chinese Navy.
A U.S. government task force focused on countering small unmanned aerial systems has launched a commercial solutions opening as it hunts for new technologies that could aid its mission.
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 was stood up by the Army last year at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has made drone and counter-drone tech a top modernization priority for the military.
On Thursday, the Pentagon issued a special notice on a government contracting website about the commercial solutions opening for JIATF 401.
AeroVironment has secured a $186m order from the US Army for its Switchblade 600 Block 2 and Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munitions.
The post Trump Goes After Anthropic Over AI Usage – ‘There Will Be Consequences’ appeared first on Armed Forces Press.
Anthropic is holding its ground on specific ethical restrictions for classified military use of its Claude AI products, as the Pentagon’s deadline to resolve their heated dispute looms.
After its CEO announced on Thursday that the company “cannot in good conscience” accede to certain demands that would permit the military to deploy its models for “all lawful use cases” without limitation, it’s unclear on Friday if the Pentagon will uphold its leaders’ threats to blacklist Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.
L Todd Wood sits down with the CFO of Castelion Andrew Kreitz, an innovative defense contractor building the ‘Blackbeard’ cruise missile. The product is an order of magnitude less expensive and will be produced at scale at their new production facility ‘Project Ranger’ in New Mexico.
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