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• The Army wants its installations to be energy islands

  18-04-2025 22:14 via defenseone.com
  
  The Army is facing a future where its posts are not safe from foreign attacks, where a strike on deployed troops can be followed up by a cyber attack on an installation, hamstringing the service’s ability to send in back-up. So the service is looking to turn its small cities into energy-independent islands, capable of keeping the lights on and the airfields or railheads running, no matter what. “Our adversaries are watching, they're probing, and they're preparing to disrupt
  
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• Industry eyes ‘wicked hard’ Golden Dome space interceptor challenge

  18-04-2025 21:58 via defenseone.com
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—As defense contractors await firm direction from the Pentagon on Golden Dome, executives say the technology already exists to start developing space-based interceptors capable of hitting missiles in their boost phase—but admit it’s no easy feat.“Golden Dome” surfaced in almost every conversation at this year’s Space Symposium here, with aerospace giants to startups pitching their wares for President Trump’s next-generation missile
  
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• Army expands access to encrypted Wickr platform in aim to curb insecure comms, bolster integration

  18-04-2025 19:39 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The greater use of the Army-approved tech comes on the heels of the Signal-gate encrypted messaging controversy.
  
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• As Army leaders reconsider needs and rumors swirl, industry braces for potential ground vehicle cuts

  18-04-2025 18:31 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “[We’re] trying to figure out what’s going to happen,” an industry official told Breaking Defense. “I joke about the crystal ball, but it’s kind of anybody’s guess right now about what could come out.”
  
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• The D Brief: State of Defense, service by service; US strikes Yemen port; DEI is out at DOD; Shakeup week for OSD; And a bit more.

  18-04-2025 17:10 via defenseone.com
  
  Bye-bye, DEI. The Pentagon has shuttered and reassigned all personnel working in diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs. A Government Accountability Office report released Thursday announced that all DEI positions across the Defense Department had been “abolished” as of April to comply with recent White House executive orders. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth even celebrated Defense One’s coverage of the development Friday morning on social media. Fine print: Most of the role
  
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• NGA field testing new processor to speed imagery to US regional commands

  18-04-2025 15:28 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “COCOMs reported after these tests that J-REN and SlimGIMS not only met the capability gap, but also reduced the time to create a collection request from an hour to 5 minutes,” an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
  
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• State of the Army 2025

  18-04-2025 11:59 via defenseone.com
  
  The Army is going all-in on its effort to finally crack the code on rapid acquisition in a giant bureaucracy.Transformation in Contact is in its second wave this year, expanding beyond infantry brigade combat teams to Stryker and armored units with planned expansion for protection and sustainment troops to get their chance to test the latest technology in the field and report back with their suggestions.“So in the Army, we like to say they're only lessons observed—they're not lessons
  
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• State of the Air Force 2025

  18-04-2025 11:59 via defenseone.com
  
  The Air Force is in the midst of a large-scale endeavor to prepare for a potential showdown with China—an effort that will necessitate cutting-edge technology like stealthy jets and AI-powered drone wingmen. Just two months into the new presidential administration, it learned it will have a new tool in its arsenal: the first-ever sixth-generation fighter jet, the F-47. President Donald Trump, flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a rendering of the F-47 peeking through a shado
  
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• State of the Space Force 2025

  18-04-2025 11:58 via defenseone.com
  
  When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role as "warfighters”—arguing for new gear to defeat enemy satellites and control the heavens.From Chinese satellites that can “dogfight” other satellites to Russia’s development of a nuclear weapon designed for space, the Space Force says its adversaries are becoming
  
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• State of the Navy 2025

  18-04-2025 11:55 via defenseone.com
  
  After years of navalist hand-wringing, could this be the year the U.S. Navy gets the support, and the changes, that enable a substantially larger fleet? Maybe.Let’s start with Congress, where the bipartisan SHIPS Act was introduced to general applause in December. The bill aims to revitalize U.S. shipbuilding—naval and commercial—along with the U.S. shipping industry and the Merchant Marine workforce. A chief sponsor was Mike Waltz, a Florida congressman before he became Presid
  
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• State of the Marine Corps 2025

  18-04-2025 11:54 via defenseone.com
  
  The Marine Corps in 2025 is about halfway through its decade-long, top-to-bottom modernization plan, trying to balance that with staying ready for its core mission as the Defense Department’s crisis-response force, which is “is wicked hard to do,” Gen. Eric Smith, the service’s commandant, told Defense One in March.This is particularly true as the service stares down the barrel of a full-year continuing resolution, keeping the budget flat as the Marine Corps stands up new
  
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• Australian thinktank warns of ‘less reliable’ America, high pricetag for AUKUS sub program

  18-04-2025 11:35 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “The spend, still seven years or so from the first Australian-flagged nuclear submarine, already has the submarine arm of the ADF on its way to becoming a fourth service: this newcomer is outpacing the Army, Air Force and surface Navy in its spending, complexity and risk,” the report’s summary notes.
  
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• Shuttering of State office leaves US largely defenseless against foreign influence warfare, officials say

  18-04-2025 05:09 via defenseone.com
  
  A small office in the State Department tasked with monitoring foreign disinformation threats was shuttered Wednesday by the Trump administration, the latest in a series of steps the White House has taken since January to dismantle entities that monitor foreign influence and information campaigns, or respond to them. As that effort continues, experts say, the United States and audiences around the world could be left virtually defenseless against increasing Chinese and Russian efforts to turn glo
  
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• There’s no more DEI at DOD, watchdog finds

  18-04-2025 04:50 via defenseone.com
  
  The Pentagon has officially eliminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs, to comply with White House executive orders, according to a watchdog report. But Congress had already done the heavy lifting last year.The Defense Department went from 115 to just 41 DEI jobs by July 2024 per a provision in the 2024 annual defense policy law, according to a Government Accountability Office in a report released Thursday.The Defense Department “reduced its civilian workforce” after implem
  
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