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  • 1 day ago | defenseone.com | Lauren C. Williams

    Another problem: The Navy is decommissioning amphibs faster than they can build them. Wittman said the situation is akin to “a track meet that it's hard to win when your competition is running faster than you are.”Vice Adm. James Pitts, deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting requirements and capabilities, agreed, but noted the Navy is new ways to keep ships on a maintenance schedule. “The procurement piece—we're actually in a good position, I think.

  • 5 days ago | realcleardefense.com | Lauren C. Williams

    INDOPACOM Brings AI to Wargaming Exercise After nearly half a year of focusing on new tech, commanders get to pit decision-making tools against operational plans Read Full Article »

  • 1 week ago | defenseone.com | Lauren C. Williams

    WASHINGTON—While the Pentagon is still figuring out how to use generative AI for daily operations, one combatant command is about to use the tools in a signature tabletop exercise. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command will put its work on the Thunderforge project to use during the second half of its annual Pacific Sentry exercise, in which headquarters staff and command components square off against a simulated enemy, INDOPACOM’s director of requirements and resources said Thursday.

  • 1 week ago | defenseone.com | Lauren C. Williams

    Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports May 27, 2025 04:47 AM ET Drones Industry As concerns about homeland drone attacks persist, the Pentagon is looking for ways to combat everything from nuisance hobbyists to adversarial drone activity—including options that don’t include shooting them down.

  • 2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Lauren C. Williams

    The Pentagon’s IT agency will lose nearly 10 percent of its total staff as part of the Trump administration’s push to slash the federal workforce, the agency’s director told senators Wednesday. But the workforce reduction may have its upsides. “It's giving us an opportunity to ruthlessly realign and optimize how we are addressing what is an evolving mission,” Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday.

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