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The goal of 100K artillery shells per month is in sight, Army says
The U.S. Army is on a path to triple its monthly production of 155mm shells following the passage of the Ukraine supplemental, its vice chief of staff said today. “With the supplemental that just thankfully passed last night, we’ll be…
The D Brief: Aid bill heads to Biden; UK also boosts funding; How will Kyiv use it?; Foreign-policy…
Late Tuesday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to advance a $95 billion foreign-aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan that House lawmakers passed over the weekend after months of delays. The legislation Tuesday passed in a 79-18 vote in…
Army’s 100-day plan to find obstacles to adopting AI
Poisoned data sets, trojan horses, and ever-changing cyber threats could derail the Army’s plan to broadly adopt AI. But a new 100-day plan aims to root out obstacles and prepare the service to scale third-party models and algorithms.The…
How will Ukraine spend its new US aid?
With a long-anticipated supplemental bill passed in the House, Ukraine’s supporters can breathe slightly easier after months of increasing Russian pressure on the beleaguered country’s outgunned and undermanned formations. Still,…
RTX moves away from competing as a prime for space contracts
RTX doesn’t plan on competing to build satellites as a prime contractor, but instead will focus on supplying components to other companies. The company is “going to be shifting away from perhaps being a space prime to being more of a…
Russia exploits Western vacuum in Africa’s Sahel
Tension flared after a U.S. delegation visited Niger in March, prompting the country's military junta to terminate a pivotal military agreement with the United States. That followed Niger's earlier cancellation of two military…
The D Brief: Israel’s next move; Floating-pier progress; China’s stealth bomber; Asia’s climate…
After 199 days of fighting, “Israel has not achieved its primary goals of the war: freeing hostages and fully destroying Hamas,” the New York Times reminded readers Monday in a report on the progress and future of Prime Minister Benjamin…
Human rights violations rising in several countries, State Department says
The last two years have been miserable for basic human rights in several countries around the world, according to a new State Department report. China, Iran, and Russia, whom U.S. officials frequently call out as human rights abusers, got…
Controversial surveillance program gets 2-year extension
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed legislation that extends a controversial surveillance authority by two years, following its passage in an 11th-hour standoff on the Senate floor late Friday that concluded just as the spying power went…
Doctors prefer Pentagon’s old health-records system to its new one
The Department of Defense has deployed its new electronic health record system at all of its military hospitals and clinics around the world but still faces low user satisfaction rates and integration issues with the new software, according…
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