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INDOPACOM brings AI to wargaming exercise
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has long sought to realize the potential of artificial intelligence to help commanders; now U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is about to use AI-powered decision aids in a signature tabletop exercise.INDOPACOM will put its…
Army scrambles to improve drone training
As drones move toward the center of modern combat, U.S. Army units are scrambling to invent ways to give soldiers the training they need.That includes exploring virtual and small-scale, home-station training environments to get more…
The D Brief: Aid cuts hinder AFRICOM; Fighter-jet warning; State cuts, detailed; Army’s recruiting…
After Trump pulled aid to allied countries, AFRICOM asks for help deterring terrorism. U.S. Africa Command, which does everything from helping the Somalian military target strikes on al-Shabaab to sending Army civil affairs soldiers to…
‘The federal government is gone’: Under Trump, fighting extremist violence is up to the…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.Under the watchful gaze of security guards, dozens of people streamed through metal detectors to enter…
Air Force Reserve faces steep fighter cuts, uncertain future
The Air Force Reserve is on track to lose nearly half of its fighter jets by the end of the decade, a course its top general warns could sideline the force in conflicts and deepen the military’s pilot crisis. “It takes us out of the…
AFRICOM asks for help deterring terrorism, after Trump pulls aid to allied countries
Deterring the spread of terrorism in Africa and countering China’s push to influence African governments got a lot harder after the Trump administration cut off billions in foreign aid earlier this year, officials say. U.S. Africa…
New plans detail State Department layoffs and changes
The State Department is moving forward with a plan to eliminate or consolidate more than 300 of its offices and bureaus, according to documents provided to lawmakers and employees on Thursday, leading to a reduction of more than 3,400…
Pentagon aims to save money by reducing consulting contracts
A new edict orders the Defense Department to reduce the number of IT consulting and management services contracts, part of a push to take on more of that work in-house.In a memo sent Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed DOD…
The US Army is too light to win
How can we have forgotten the terrible lessons of the early 2000s, when losses in Iraq and Afghanistan prompted a scramble to deploy up-armored HMMWVs and Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles? Today’s Army, far lighter than the one that…
The D Brief: Cuts to DOT&E; Uncrewed F-35?; Qatari jet’s a mess; Border gets barracks funding;…
Hegseth halves Pentagon testing office. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo directing cuts to the office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. The DOT&E workforce will shrink from 94 employees to 30…
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