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A total of 181 candidates with military experience won primaries for House and Senate seats this year, according to an analysis from Military Times.
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A defense company making high-powered microwave systems that melt drones announced a new iteration of its product last week.
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Former Navy lieutenant, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and President of the United States Jimmy Carter turns 100 today, October 1. He is the first American president to reach that age.
The 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, Carter reached the milestone Tuesday while in hospice care, where he has been since February 2023. Carter has survived two kinds of cancer and several falls.
Today is Carter’s first birthday in 78 years without his late wife Rosalynn Carter, who died in November.
Two military bases in Georgia are under partial evacuation orders after Hurricane Helene knocked power and water out on both installations, damage which officials say could take at least a week to remedy. Commanders at Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, Georgia and the Army’s Fort Eisenhower near Augusta, Georgia gave the go-ahead for thousands of troops to leave the region while power and water are widely out.
The U.S. military’s technological edge is increasingly defined by software: It rapidly creates new capabilities for tanks, planes, and weapons systems to outsmart and outmaneuver the enemy without fielding new hardware. While America’s adversaries pour billions into artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Department of Defense has yet to fully embrace its most powerful ally: the world-leading innovation of America’s commercial tech sector. Take the department’s many software factories like the Air Force’s Kessel Run and Space Force’s Space Camp.
LONDON — The AUKUS trilateral security partnership is making progress in new discussions with Japan about deepening collaboration to jointly advance the interoperability of their militaries’ maritime drone systems.
Additionally, the partnership — launched in 2021 between Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. — is also in ongoing consultations with Canada, New Zealand and Korea to pinpoint possible new areas of cooperation under AUKUS Pillar 2, which entails the co-development of disruptive defense technologies across six focus areas, members of Defense Sec.
Navy Capt. Bradley Geary, who oversaw the infamously grueling training school for Navy SEALs, will face a board of inquiry on Nov. 11 for the death of a recruit following the Hell Week portion of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, or BUD/S, his attorney said.
Geary led the Naval Special Warfare Center’s Basic Training Command at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in San Diego, California, which directly oversees BUD/S, when SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen died of pneumonia on Feb. 4, 2022 within hours of finishing Hell Week.
As the Army is shifting for potential conflict against sophisticated nation states at much greater distances, senior leaders have expressed the need to move network complexity up from brigades and into their parent division headquarters.
With that overall strategic imperative, the 3rd Infantry Division is taking it upon itself — using existing capabilities and tools without purchasing anything additional — to produce a new network architecture that will unburden brigades and make units more mobile for large-scale combat operations.