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The U.S. Coast Guard is refining and integrating a new generative AI-enabled platform to help personnel quickly retrieve reliable answers from referenceable internal sources via a secure data environment that is configured to support their specific operations. 
This prototype system — named Ask Hamilton, in honor of the so-called “father of the Coast Guard” Alexander Hamilton — is being designed to streamline information access and improve user efficiency across typically tedious tasks like marine inspections.
“We have 11 missions. There’s a lot of communities out there.

Less than two years after its operational debut abroad, the Marine Corps is looking to replace corroding struts on its Amphibious Combat Vehicle fleet.
With a gross weight of 35 tons, the eight-wheeled ACV is capable of carrying up to 16 Marines (including its three-person crew) from ship to shore and has emerged as a critical tool in the service’s amphibious repertoire since the first batch of vehicles arrived to units in 2020.

In late December, a new wave of protests broke out in Iran — eventually spreading around the country and across many sectors of society. Due to an internet blackout imposed on Jan. 8, information is limited, but reports suggest that thousands of Iranian protesters were killed in the government’s crackdown. The protests came at a time when the Iranian regime looked particularly vulnerable due to a struggling economy, an aging leadership, and a weakened regional position.

After years of testing mishaps and schedule delays, the Army says it has begun the fielding process for its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system.
Fielding activities for the missile, also known as Dark Eagle, began in December and are expected to wrap up in the next few months, an Army spokesperson told DefenseScoop on Tuesday. Once delivery of the entire battery is complete, Dark Eagle will be the United States’ first-ever operational hypersonic weapon system. Although some of the ballistic missiles — such as ICBMs — that are already in the U.

F-15 crews with the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron played a major role in shooting down Iranian drones launched against Israel nearly two years ago in what the Air Force has described as “the largest air-to-air enemy engagement in over 50 years.”
Now, F-15s from the squadron are back in the Middle East as President Donald Trump reportedly weighs military options for possible strikes against Iran for cracking down on anti-regime protests.
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The Defense Department is searching for new acoustic detection capabilities to help soldiers defend themselves against small unmanned aerial systems.
The Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center under the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command is conducting market research to see what tools are available.
A request for information issued Jan. 14 is intended to inform future requirements and prototyping efforts.

In 2024, Brian Petit wrote, “Send in the A Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine,” where he argued for sending the Green Berets into Ukraine for training and assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces. We asked Brian to revisit his argument after talks of a peace deal have yet to produce fruitful change.Image: Sgt. Patrik Orcutt via DVIDSIn your 2024 article, “Send in the A Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine,” you argue that sending the Green Berets to Ukraine to help train, advise, and assist Ukrainian troops “requires little imagination, no adaptation, and few modifications.

In February 1968, American forces in Vietnam were still reeling from the sudden onslaught of the Tet Offensive. The January surprise attack by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong saw strategic but widespread strikes on military and civilian command and control centers throughout the country. 
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Oshkosh Defense has received a contract from the US Army to supply 97 Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles A2 Low-Velocity Airdrop trucks.

The UK’s future main battle tank, Challenger 3, conducted its first crewed live fire test as part of a carefully phased programme.