A new veteran-founded nonprofit is trying to turn race registrations into a route back to structure, purpose and community. Operation WarriorFit, based in North Carolina, provides free or substantially discounted entries to veterans, active duty service members, National Guard and Reserve members, and first responders. Founder and Executive Director Jonathan…
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) announcement earlier this month of 11 nations’ support for the procurement of Saab GlobalEye aircraft as NATO’s new Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is drawing varied reactions, with one former U.S. official warning that the path forward is an “easy button” that puts…
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The Marine Corps has selected Allen Control Systems’ Bullfrog autonomous weapon station for integration into its Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (L-MADIS) under the Ground-Based Air Defense (GBAD) program, according to a company announcement this week. The move pairs the AI-powered robotic mount with the M240 machine gun already…
00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal as though public land employees don’t have it hard enough these days with staff cuts and slashed budgets. Two seasonal workers with the Forest Service were…
The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced a change in its cybersecurity strategy, suspending a phase of a pre-existing plan to strengthen cybersecurity compliance over concerns about the cost and bureaucracy involved in implementing it. DOD said in a release that it was suspending phase two of the Cybersecurity Maturity…
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BERLIN (AP) — The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said. Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a…
CAIRO (AP) — The United States paused its attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done so too, as efforts continued to bring the countries back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire deal largely undermined by recent exchanges of fire. It was not…
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The debate about lethal autonomy—core to the Trump administration’s fight with Anthropic—obscures a deeper danger of the Pentagon’s rapid adoption of commercial AI tools: they might weaken the U.S. military’s ability to tell fact from fiction.New research suggests that relying on AI to do various tasks can erode one’s native ability…
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The Army is sprinting to field drones and counter-drone systems throughout its units, but there are a handful of capabilities they’re still looking for in order to make these new systems viable in combat.That starts with the training environment, Col. Burr Miller, of Security Assistance Group-Ukraine, said Tuesday at…
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The Pentagon’s equity stake in critical minerals company MP Materials seems to be paying off. “We were on the verge of an economic shutdown” last year as China restricted rare earth magnetics exports to the U.S. said James Litinsky, the CEO of MP Materials, during the Hill & Valley Forum on…
