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Defense Department
04/05/2024
Vital Signs 2024: U.S. Defense Industrial Base Still Facing Headwinds
During the last 35 years, six U.S. administrations have worked tirelessly to deter peer conflict. -
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Battlefield Communications
04/03/2024
JUST IN: Air Force Advancing Command, Control in Middle East Fight
While the Defense Department is shifting focus to the Indo-Pacific, action is taking place today in the Middle East where Central Command is conducting defensive — and sometimes offensive — action against Iranian proxies. That action is testing and proving technologies and concepts of the Defense Department’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, said the commander of Air Forces, U.S. Central Command. -
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Army News
04/02/2024
Army Hopeful Troubled Headset Program Is Finally Looking Up
The Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System program has faced numerous setbacks over the last few years, but the service still believes in the technology and is optimistic the latest version can unlock the transformational warfighting advancements the Army and developer Microsoft envision. -
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Special Operations
03/04/2024
JUST IN: Qatar Positions Itself as Special Operations Training Hub
The Qatari armed forces are setting up an international school that will train special operators and counterterrorism units from at home and abroad. -
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Navy News
03/01/2024
Navy's Push for Blended Training Picks Up Steam
While using a blend of live, virtual and constructive techniques to prepare warfighters for battle is not new, Navy officials have said the sea service has lagged implementing the concept. However, that appears to be changing. -
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Marine Corps News
02/16/2024
Marines Going Virtual to Address Lack of Training Grounds in Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific may be vast, but the areas where Marines can train in the region are not. -
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Navy News
02/05/2024
Navy Looks to Industry to Digitize Ships
Most software aboard Navy ships is older than the sailors and less sophisticated than home gaming systems. Bridging the digital gap presents the biggest opportunity for the defense industry since the Cold War, a Navy official said. -
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Battlefield Communications
02/02/2024
Reaching Pentagon’s CJADC2 Goals to Require ‘Bridging Solutions’
The Defense Department has a vision: take each service’s sensors and shooters, tie them all together in a seamless network that lives on a combat cloud and employ artificial intelligence to make decisions quicker than opponents can. The vision is known as Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, and despite the “joint” in the name, the Army, Navy and Air Force are pursuing their own programs. -
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Air Force News
01/08/2024
Air Force Overhauling Training To Take On Near-Peer Foes
The Air Force is undergoing a top-to-bottom reorganization to transition from counterterrorism operations to competition with more powerful rivals, and its training and simulation systems will be a part of the overhaul. -
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems
01/02/2024
Large Language Models Have Pitfalls for National Security
ORLANDO — Generative artificial intelligence: eerie or exciting? Experts suggest the increasingly intelligent large language models are not something to be feared, but rather tools to make human lives easier, revolutionizing how we learn and train. We just need to learn how to use them effectively.
