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Currently, the Army is working on four other versions of the PrSM designed to replace the older ATACMS.

Sam LaGrone, USNI News
Delayed and skipped amphibious warship maintenance has prevented Marine Corps units from training and deploying on schedule, reads a new Government Accountability…

The gruesome ongoing war in Ukraine should have shattered any remaining illusions that the U.S. military can count on swiftly and decisively defeating any capable adversary in a future war. History is filled with examples of states that planned to fight a short, sharp war, only to become ensnared in conflicts that dragged on inconclusively for weeks or months or years — and which consumed vast quantities of munitions, equipment, and lives in the process. Since 2018, the Department of Defense has focused primarily on a possible future war with China.

Chuck Taylor is a name associated with basketball sneakers that are still a pop culture and fashion icon. The shoe brand is now owned by Nike, which is not a surprise; however, the shoe was conceived in 1917, over 107 years ago, and the exact Chuck Taylor All-Stars debuted in 1922. That is a pretty good lifespan for shoes made before computer engineering and synthetic fabrics.
A classic dark blue pair of Converse All-Stars resting on the Black & White Ed. Shoebox (1998-2002). Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office has awarded Anduril a $100 million other transaction agreement to scale its “edge data integration services capabilities” for the U.S. military, the Defense Department announced Tuesday in its daily list of major contract awards.
The work on the three-year production deal is estimated to be completed by November 2028. The production OTA was previously competed as a prototype other transaction, according to the DOD.

The Pentagon’s Chief Information Office achieved a major milestone last week via a joint pilot project with its Canadian counterpart that’s meant to pave the way for a first-of-its-kind technology solution that federates identity, credential, and access management (ICAM).
In an exclusive interview Tuesday, Department of Defense acting Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers briefed DefenseScoop on this unfolding pursuit — and the overarching aims for expanding it to enable the U.S.

Northrop Grumman announced Tuesday that it has handed over mission operations and completed activation of Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) constellation, expanding access to satellite communications in the High North for both the U.S. Space Force and Norway.
Built by Northrop Grumman and launched by SpaceX in August, the two-satellite constellation includes two Enhanced Polar System — Recapitalization (EPS-R) payloads and others for Space Norway, a state-owned firm that develops and manages space-based services for government and commercial use.

A growing chorus is calling for cuts to Veteran Affairs disability benefits as a way to save federal dollars — a move that ignores the very real costs of two decades of war, and could cause irreparable harm to generations of veterans, experts warn.
The most recent call for cuts is a widely-criticized opinion article in The Economist on Nov. 28 that described veterans’ disability benefits as “absurdly generous.

Pfc. Dillon Easton died in his sleep on Nov. 17 at his home in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, five months after being assigned to the 34th Infantry Division, better known as the Red Bulls. Due to a backlog of the Army’s latest dress uniforms, the Army Green Service Uniform, Easton wasn’t going to have one for his funeral on Nov. 22. 
But the soldiers in his unit did everything in their power to ensure that he did.
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