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• Marines say they’re ‘leading the way’ in battlefield autonomy

  03-05-2025 12:49 via defenseone.com
  
  WASHINGTON—There were a lot of big vehicles—some amphibious, with fresh camo paint—on display at the Modern Day Marine conference this week. But the smaller ones with the ability to drive themselves around stole the show. “I think you're gonna see the Army and Marine Corps try to automate more. So you're going to see more remote operations, you'll see more autonomous capabilities,” Chuck Bunton, Oshkosh Defense’s associate vice president for program manag
  
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• ‘Gimmicks’: GOP lawmakers slam Trump’s ‘trillion-dollar’ defense-spending proposal

  03-05-2025 00:05 via defenseone.com
  
  The White House says it has proposed the first trillion-dollar defense budget, but some senators and budget analysts aren’t buying it. “For Defense spending, the President proposes an increase of 13 percent to $1.01 trillion for FY 2026,” White House budget director Russell Vought wrote in a May 2 letter to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who leads the Senate Appropriations Committee. But that topline relies on funding outside of the normal budget-request process. In the
  
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