Tag: USA

Army to Open Centers For Reporting Sexual Assault, Harassment (Caitlin M.Kenney, Defense One)

The Army will open seven centers for sexual assault and harassment survivors in a bid to improve reporting, care, and justice, service officials said...
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Bell Picks Rolls-Royce Engine for V-280 Valor in Army Black Hawk Replacement Contest (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

Bell plans to install a version of the Rolls-Royce-made V-22 Osprey engine in the V-280 Valor— an aircraft the company is pitching in a...
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Active-Duty Suicide Rate Hit Record High in 2020 (Caitilin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The suicide rate for active-duty troops rose to 28.7 per 100,000 last year, up from 26.3 the previous year, according to the latest edition...
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How Well Can AI Pick Targets From Satellite Photos? Army Test Aims to Find Out (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Two live GBU-32 bombs will be dropped on range targets selected by an artificial-intelligence tool on Thursday, part of a U.S. Army effort to...
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The Pentagon’s New Climate Plan Aims to Manage the Unavoidable (John Conger, Defense One)

The Pentagon’s new Climate Adaptation Plan, released Oct. 7, is in many ways a follow-on strategy to the 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Having led the development...
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NSA Cyber Chief Spells Out Near-Term Priorities (Brandi Vincent, Defense One)

Ensuring the U.S. has next-generation encryption necessary for the post-quantum era and reversing the recent increase in fallout from ransomware attacks are among National...
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Keep The US Retreat from Afghanistan From Emboldening China (C. Anthony Pfaff, Defense One)

China lost no time in attempting to use the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to weaken Taipei’s faith in Washington’s ability to deter Beijing and...
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Debate on ‘no first use’ of nukes mushrooms in Washington (Joe Gould, Defense News)

Five years after President Barack Obama turned back from declaring a “no first use” as U.S. policy for nuclear weapons, opponents say the Biden...
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency boss reveals data strategy (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has a new strategy for tackling the torrent of data pouring into the organization from all over the world, and...
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Austal USA wins first steel shipbuilding program with T-ATS towing ship contract (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

Austal USA has received its first contract to build a steel ship after revamping its aluminum-only construction yard in Alabama, with the U.S. Navy...
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Expansion into the Pacific must come with more defense funds, says British lawmaker (Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News)

The United Kingdom’s involvement in a new trilateral deal involving the U.S. and Australia indicates the British government’s rising concern over Chinese activities in the Pacific...
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NGA taking a ‘try before you buy’ approach to commercial solutions (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

Using a little known contracting method, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is now able to test out the commercial capabilities it’s interested in before it...
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Report: US Army could field two new vertical lift aircraft if service lives within its means (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The U.S. Army can simultaneously field two clean sheet-designed future vertical lift aircraft, assuming costs remain affordable, according to an Oct. 6 report by the...
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Palantir scores US Army contract to build out intelligence data fabric (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

The Army has awarded Palantir an $823 million contract to enable an intelligence data fabric and analytics as part of an effort to modernize...
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Israel willing to give maritime talks with Lebanon another try (Rita Bassist, Al-Monitor)

Israel welcomes the new mediator to the US-sponsored talks with Lebanon over their mutual maritime border in the Mediterranean Sea. Energy Minister Karine Elharar spoke to Al-Monitor...
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Russian FM, Blinken discuss reviving Iran deal (Al-Monitor)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed ways to salvage the Iranian nuclear agreement during a phone call Wednesday,...
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