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New tactical comms system for US ground troops aims to break network silos
General Dynamics revealed a new artificial intelligence-enabled, portable communications system on Thursday called the Vion, a Mission Partner Environment solution. Although its basic purpose is to give ground troops a suitcase-sized platform to exchange messages and files, the company said its real value is how it connects allied systems. In an interview with Military Times, Jason Myers, vice president of…
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Senate committee proposes 3.6% military pay raise, rejecting White House request for more
This article has been updated to include a statement from the Senate Armed Services Committee.Lawmakers must soon hammer out the differences in their proposals for fiscal 2027 military pay raises, as the Senate has rejected the Trump administration’s request for higher, tiered pay raises — a proposal agreed to by…
Beyond the battlefield: How 3 Marine Raiders turned combat lessons into a healing mission
Open this season of the video game “Battlefield 6,” and you might find yourself dropping into a firefight as one of the Strix Raiders, the special operations team at the center of the shooter’s “Nightfall” update. What most players sprinting across the map won’t know is that three of those…
Doorstep grocery delivery expanding to all US commissaries
Eligible customers will soon have access to doorstep delivery from all 178 commissaries in the United States, commissary officials announced Tuesday.The service, through the Commissary Click2Go program, has been offered at 70 commissary locations since January. Starting June 22, the Defense Commissary Agency will begin rolling out the delivery service…
Has the military been miscalculating spouse unemployment?
For decades, military spouse employment policy has revolved around a single, stubborn statistic: unemployment. It’s the standard that leaders cite, programs are built around and progress is measured against. But a recently published report reveals that the Department of Defense has been calculating unemployment differently from typical benchmarks, overstating unemployment…
‘Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War’ is the ultimate OODA Loop wargame
Fifty years ago, a U.S. Air Force colonel named John Boyd offered a profound insight into why battles are won or lost. His famous Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — or OODA — Loop described the mental cycle by which combatants, from fighter pilots to generals, assess and react to a…
Unemployment rate for veterans drops to 3.2%, women vets surge on jobs market
The unemployment rate for veterans dipped to 3.2% in May, bolstered by a gains among women veterans despite fears that artificial intelligence could trigger layoffs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report released Friday.The jobless rate for all veterans fell from 3.7% in April to 3.2% in…