Bloomberg
Outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recommended the US government boost defense spending by about $50 billion more than projected in fiscal year 2026 with increases that would…

DefenseScoop
Artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will likely play an even more significant role in determining the outcome of future conflicts as the technology continues to…

Mahon, et al.

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The WarZone
The Air Force could also still proceed with its original sixth-generation stealth combat jet plans, but would need billions more in funding.

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Peace seems to have broken out between India and China. On Oct. 23, 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had their first bilateral meeting since 2019. Statements from the foreign ministries of both countries declared a “resolution of issues that arose in 2020,” referring to the crisis that began when Chinese troops launched a number of incursions across the Line of Actual Control — the disputed border between the two countries — in Ladakh.

At a roundtable with industry and academia at the Defense Innovation Unit, I met a CEO whose company had developed a language translation app that was providing critical support across the Department of Defense. He shared that the department was paying high prices at the last minute across multiple siloed vehicles and customers. It was, he frankly said, a poor business model. He couldn’t plan for the support the department clearly needed, and the department couldn’t leverage enterprise scale and predictability to drive down the cost.

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When a future generation of Navy sailors project American airpower across the high seas, they’ll do it on aircraft carriers named for Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The White House announced the names of the two future Gerald R. Ford-class ships Monday.
“The future USS William J. Clinton (CVN 82) and the future USS George W. Bush (CVN 83) will begin construction in the years ahead,” the White House announced in a statement. “When complete, they will join the most capable, flexible, and professional Navy that has ever put to sea.

In recent months, incoming Trump administration national security adviser Mike Waltz and some lawmakers have suggested that in response to Chinese cyber breaches, the United States needs to prioritize taking more aggressive offensive actions in cyberspace rather than emphasizing defense.
It’s been said before. And it’s easier said than done.
Experts that spoke with reporters for this story note several multifaceted questions regarding enhanced offensive operations, including what form they would take and if it’s an appropriate response to the recent rash of intrusions.

Artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will likely play an even more significant role in determining the outcome of future conflicts as the technology continues to evolve over the next 25 years, according to outgoing Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.
In a congressionally-mandated report submitted to lawmakers in December and set to be published Monday, Kendall outlined his prediction on what security environments and technological advancements will contribute to what both the Air and Space Forces will look like in the year 2050.

Service members who have gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training, or SERE may get flashbacks from the trailer for the upcoming zombie horror film by Danny Boyle, “28 Years Later,” which features a 1915 reading of the Rudyard Kipling poem “Boots.

Personnel leading the Pentagon’s enterprise AI office are setting up a new Budget and Programming Cell amid the presidential transition, and made several previously undisclosed senior-level hires, according to an unclassified internal document recently obtained by DefenseScoop.
Defense Department leadership in 2021 kicked off a process to combine four organizations — the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), Defense Digital Service (DDS), Office of the Chief Data Officer, and the Advana program — to form that hub, the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO).

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With just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, it was thought the US would send a larger military aid package to Ukraine.

For a Private soldier (or equivalent), a Junior

This is Chapter 6 in the Wellness Memoir. Catch up here.
Long-distance relationships are challenging, but adding health issues into the mix takes it to another level. I often found myself wrestling with how much of my health struggles to share with my deployed husband. I wanted him to know the truth but also didn’t want to burden him with stress while he faced his own challenges during the year we were apart.
It felt like I had to navigate recovery on my own because he couldn’t see or fully understand what I was going through.

Ukraine Deputy Minister of Defence brigadier general Anatolii Klochko has engaged in discussions with the Italian Defence Industry Agency.

Rheinmetall Electronics has expanded its stake in blackned by purchasing an additional 11% of shares through a share acquisition agreement.

This is Chapter 5 in the Transition Memoir. Catch up here.
I found Five Minute Friday when my son was about six months old. The goal was to write on a prompt word for five minutes. I didn’t have a blog, I had never shared my writing with anyone outside of emails home to Afghanistan. I decided to join in and started posting in the comment section with other writers. 
For five minutes once a week, I had a new goal and a new focus. 
Leaving the military had left me lost and confused, unsure of what to do next. I had tried to become a fitness coach but that had crashed and burned.

Mattel was founded by Elliot Handler, his wife Ruth Handler and Harold Matson in 1945. Elliot Handler served in the U.S. Army during World War II. The name was created by taking “Matt” from Matson and “El” from Elliot to form Mattel. They first sold picture frames and dollhouse furniture. Matson stepped out of Mattel in 1946 because of health issues and sold his shares to the Handlers. Mattel’s first successful toy was the Uke-A-Doodle, which was a ukulele.

According to FBI Director Wray, China has been placing cyber bombs in our critical infrastructure. Well then, what was the FBI’s priority stack of operations?

China has a bigger cyber theft and cyber attack program than all other nations combined.
Yes, this is true. So on Day 1 of January 20, 2025, the priority stack of operations that the FBI has been apportioning resources to under Biden needs to be revealed.

The Navy officially named three future ships this past week, as well as the official name for its new class of ocean surveillance ships. The vessels honor two Navy veterans and underwater explorers, as well as a Marine killed in action during the Iraq War. 
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the names at different events on Friday. The amphibious transport dock ship LPD 33 will be named for Travis Manion, Del Toro announced at the U.S. Naval Academy. Manion, an academy graduate, served in the Marine Corps with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and fought in Iraq.

Bloomberg

The GOP chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is aiming to “significantly” increase defense spending this year, and he has a new…

ArmyT
The Army is scouring industry for unmanned aircraft systems to launch from medium- or high-altitude platforms that would perform tasks like intelligence, surveillance and…

MWI
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the war there has been impacted by attritable, cheap drones and rapidly growing roster of unmanned and robotic systems….

Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
Concerns still loom over how the Air Force will pay for its CCA drones, as well as other advanced next-generation aircraft.

Interesting Engineering
The Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) is a sophisticated military platform that enables remote operation of various weapon systems …

As part of the process, the UK MoD has invited industry to participate in a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise.

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On December 18, 1944, Moe Berg — a Princeton graduate, Major League baseball star, and Office of Strategic Services operative — discreetly took his seat in a cramped conference room in Zurich. Masquerading as a studious physics graduate, the hulking Harlem-born Jew listened attentively to the keynote speaker, the Nobel-prize winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg. His instructions were straightforward. Should Heisenberg say anything indicative of the success of the covert Nazi nuclear program with which he was intimately involved, Berg was to whip out his carefully concealed .

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It’s winter and winter means a surge of seasonal flu infections in the northern hemisphere. This year, however, Americans are looking at not just a surge in seasonal flu infections but it is coupled with a surge in three other infections:
A quadruple-whammy of viruses are hitting the US as millions go back to work after the holidays, data shows.

The U.S. military’s Trust Traveler program is once again in effect at bases and installations in the continental United States and Alaska. U.S. Northern Command reinstated the program after a week, following a pause in the wake of two separate terrorist attacks.
“As of 10 January, U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has returned the use of Trusted Traveler program subject to installation commanders’ local policy,” NORTHCOM said in a statement to Task & Purpose.

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January 12th 2000 saw the military ban on lesbi

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More troops from the California National Guard have been mobilized to help the fight against multiple fires in Los Angeles County. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Saturday afternoon that the state was doubling the amount of National Guard personnel deployed, with 1,680 California National Guardsmen now active in the Los Angeles area.
The move comes as the deadly wildfires continue for the fifth day. The Palisades and Eaton fires, around the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, have destroyed more than 36,000 acres and killed at least 11 people, according to the county coroner’s office.

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‘Toxic Loyalty’: “Blind loyalty to bad leaders and protected employees irrationally serves the ego—and has disastrous implications on company culture and the bottom line.”
Toxic Loyalty, according to Fastcompany.com, has 3 general facets that can drive others to support generals irrationally: 
 1. Individuals who have been with the organization for a long time
 2. Individuals who played a key part in the organization’s success at some point
 3.

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Local police and the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division are looking for three Humvees after they were stolen this week from an Army Reserve Center in Southern California.
Unidentified thieves broke into the Army Reserve Center’s storage warehouse in Tustin, California on Wednesday, Jan. 8, the Tustin Police Department announced Friday evening. . They broke several storage lockers and took the contents inside them before making off with three Humvees. One is armored, the other two are sporting cloth doors. The robbery happened between 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m.

A former Army officer covered 566 miles (911km)

Unfortunately due to a frozen pitch this game h

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By Capt Steve Deal, USN ret
In October 1939, just one month after he took over as Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall famously winnowed the ranks of hidebound senior officers to prepare for war.
“Most of them have their minds set in outmoded patterns,” Marshall told his leadership team, “and can’t change to meet the new conditions they may face if we become involved in the war that started in Europe.

The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal
Committing 5% of GDP to defense is a fine idea, for the U.S. too.

Schuler, gCaptain
The U.S.