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• Pentagon accepts Qatari jet to use as Air Force One

  21-05-2025 20:57 via defenseone.com
  The Defense Department has officially accepted a luxury jet from Qatar and has begun planning how to convert the plane into an Air Force One, despite bipartisan concern that accepting a foreign government’s plane is both dangerous and unethical.“The Secretary of Defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations. The Department of Defense will work to ensure proper security measures and functional-mission requirements are considered for
  
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• Space Force losing 14% of its civilian workers

  21-05-2025 18:26 via defenseone.com
  The Space Force is losing nearly 14 percent of its civilian workers—about 780 people—due to the Trump administration’s effort to dramatically cut the federal workforce, the service’s chief said Tuesday.Initiatives such as early retirement and voluntary-resignation programs have had an “outsized impact” on the youngest service, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said Tuesday during a Senate Armed Service committee hearing. Civilians comprise ab
  
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• The D Brief: Golden Dome price, schedule; 3D-printed drones; A push to alter intel; Gitmo’s eye-popping costs; And a bit more.

  21-05-2025 16:59 via defenseone.com
  President Trump says his lofty “Golden Dome” missile-defense project will cost $175 billion and be ready in just three years, but experts said those cost and schedule projections were likely far too low.The project will involve “next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,” Trump said Tuesday in televised remarks from the White House. The latest known concept for Golden Dome combines various existing systems
  
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• 3rd ID experiments with new tank formations at Germany training rotation

  21-05-2025 12:04 via defenseone.com
  In the second round of its rapid experimentation program, Transformation-in-Contact, the Army has tasked Stryker and armored brigades with testing out new systems in the field, sending feedback to industry, and getting updated prototypes back into soldiers’ hands, in an effort to change how the Army fights at the same time as it changes how it buys equipment.The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team is working its way through its fourth training rotation as a TiC br
  
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• Trump: Golden Dome to cost $175B, be ready in three years

  21-05-2025 01:15 via defenseone.com
  An architecture, a price tag, and a development leader have been set for the ambitious Golden Dome anti-missile defense system, President Trump said Tuesday.“We have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,” Trump said from the White House. “This design for the Golden Dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities
  
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