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• INDOPACOM was all in on Anthropic. Now it’s working to adjust

  10-03-2026 22:45 via defenseone.com
  HONOLULU—“What happens when you concentrate on one [AI] model and all of a sudden that model isn’t available to you?” That’s the reality that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is living right now, its resources and requirements director said here Monday.The audience, after a beat, laughed cautiously at the realization that Bob Stephenson was likely referring to Anthropic’s Claude model.“It happens,” Stephenson said Monday at the Pacific Operational Science
  
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• NSA, Cyber Command get a permanent leader, ending 11-month gap

  10-03-2026 18:28 via defenseone.com
  The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Cyber Command and the National Security Agency in a dual-hatted capacity, giving the signals intelligence and hacking titans their first permanent leader in almost a year.Gen. Joshua Rudd was confirmed in a 71-29 vote on Tuesday, three months after he was nominated to the position. NSA and Cyber Command have been without a permanent leader since far-right activist Laura Loomer pushed for the firing of the post’s prev
  
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• Russia-linked hackers appear on Iran war’s cyber front, but their impact is murky

  10-03-2026 17:21 via defenseone.com
  Apparent Russia-linked hacking collectives backing Iran have been observed joining the cyber activity unfolding alongside the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, though analysts have mixed views on whether their involvement represents a meaningful escalation or little more than online noise.The outlook on such “hacktivist” groups — hackers who attempt to penetrate systems and steal information for political activism — comes days after The Washington Post reported that Russia is
  
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• A year into Hegseth’s cuts, defense civilians report ‘degraded performance’ and low morale

  10-03-2026 17:00 via defenseone.com
  A year after Secretary Pete Hegseth launched a hasty effort to reduce the Defense Department’s civilian workforce by up to 61,000 people, employees are reporting gutted offices, lower productivity, and pervasive uncertainty.“The climate, at least in my immediate organization, has shifted from fear to stress,” said an Air Force civilian who spoke with Defense One. “The fear of imminent [reductions-in-force] is not something we talk about much anymore because, while the thr
  
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• The D Brief: More mixed messaging on war; Airstrike pricetag; DOD civs pressed to seek border duty; Anthropic sues Hegseth; And a bit more.

  10-03-2026 16:25 via defenseone.com
  US-Israeli war on Iran, day 11: Trump, Hegseth send conflicting messages to the world about the end of war on Iran. In a press conference after markets closed Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters at times contradictory information about the future of his joint war with Israel against Iran that has rattled the global economy and sent oil prices soaring. Latest: “Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said
  
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• SecDef leaves Iran war’s timeline in Trump’s hands

  10-03-2026 15:51 via defenseone.com
  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has narrowed the U.S.’s objectives in Iran to three, scrapping President Donald Trump’s recent calls for “unconditional surrender” and a “great and acceptable leader” to replace the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The U.S. military is entering day 11 of its campaign to destroy Iranian missile capabilities, destroy the Iranian navy and “permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever,” Hegseth said at a Tuesday
  
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• Hegseth leaves Iran war’s timeline in Trump’s hands

  10-03-2026 15:51 via defenseone.com
  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has narrowed the U.S.’s objectives in Iran to three, scrapping President Donald Trump’s recent calls for “unconditional surrender” and a “great and acceptable leader” to replace the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The U.S. military is entering day 11 of its campaign to destroy Iranian missile capabilities, destroy the Iranian navy and “permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever,” Hegseth said at a Tuesday
  
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