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• For DOD, the future of large language models is smaller

  22-05-2025 21:48 via defenseone.com
  The U.S. military is working on ways to get the power of cloud-based, big-data AI in tools that can run on local computers, draw upon more focused data sets, and remain safe from spying eyes, officials from OpenAI, Scale AI, and U.S. European Command told Defense One, part of a special broadcast airing Thursday.When civilians query OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for example, their answers are generated by machines trained on huge amounts of data acquired from third-party sources and millions of us
  
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• Muddy wheels, foggy lenses: 25th ID tests new vehicles, drones during Philippines exercises

  22-05-2025 20:45 via defenseone.com
  
  HONOLULU–When Army officials picked the 25th Infantry Division for the Transformation-in-Contact program, they knew water would shape its performance on the kind of island terrain that might be a future battlefield.Firstly, because it’s much more humid in Hawaii year-round than Kentucky or New York, but also because the Indo-Pacific’s multi-island nations make it hard for infantry units to get around. “So it depends on how much it's been raining,” Sgt. Maj. Ste
  
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• The D Brief: More DOD cuts; Trump’s Putin pivot; N. Korea’s failed launch; Qatar’s gift, accepted; And a bit more.

  22-05-2025 17:19 via defenseone.com
  
  Space Force is losing 14% of its civilian workers to SecDef Pete Hegseth’s hurry-up effort to cut Pentagon headcount. That’s a higher proportion than the rest of the Defense Department, whose overall civilian workforce Hegseth is trying to cut by five to eight percent in ways that have caused widespread uncertainty and fear among federal employees.The loss of civilians is a “large hit” because the service heavily relies on them for acquisition, Chief of Space Operations G
  
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• The DOD’s tech agency braces for 10% workforce cut

  22-05-2025 03:51 via defenseone.com
  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 Service
  
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