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Sailors assigned to the future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. handle lines at Naval Station Norfolk. Credit: Navy Seaman Apprentice Jackson C. Rott. The future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG 124), the US Navy’s latest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer (DDG), arrived at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 March 2026 in advance of its commissioning set for 11 April. Retired Marine Corps Colonel Harvey Curtiss Barnum Jr., the ship’s namesake and Medal of Honor recipient, attended the vessel’s arrival along with its crew. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across…

Sortie generation is the process in which the U.S. Air Force (USAF) recovers, refuels, rearms, inspects, and launches aircraft, and it is a capability that is essential to producing combat airpower. The USAF’s shifting focus to dynamic, high-end threats and the needs of agile combat employment (ACE) prompted an examination of how the USAF’s Air Combat Command (ACC) Directorate of Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection (A4) approaches training for combat sortie generation (CSG) proficiency. Specifically, there is a need to understand (1) the new, combat-relevant sortie generation (SG) competencies that are required for a high-end fight; (2) how to best…

Defense Department civilian employee satisfaction and engagement scores declined markedly in 2025, according to an independent survey released last week by the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service.The Partnership’s Public Service Viewpoint Survey — conducted after the Office of Personnel Management canceled the statutorily required Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, or FEVS — recorded a government-wide Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Index Score of 32 out of 100. The survey was fielded from Nov. 10 to Dec. 19, 2025, and received 11,083 responses from employees at 17 large agencies and 13 midsize agencies.Among major DOD components, the Army posted the highest score at…

News March 24, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Image via Lockheed Martin FORT EUSTIS, Virginia. Sikorsky completed flight testing and delivered the U.S. Army’s experimental UH-60MX Black Hawk helicopter with the company’s MATRIX autonomy suite integrated, the company announced in a statement. The aircraft, which is owned and operated by the Army, is intended to support the service’s work on open-architecture autonomy and optionally piloted flight, the statement reads. Sikorsky says the UH-60MX is the first full-authority fly-by-wire, optionally piloted UH-60 in the Army fleet. According to the company, the UH-60MX is based on Sikorsky’s UH-60A fly-by-wire…

In 2025, Jack Roush wrote, “Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Brought Iran and Belarus Closer Together,” where he argued that a closer security partnership between Belarus and Iran could have devastating consequences for Ukraine. Now that Iran is involved in a war with the United States and Israel, we asked Jack to revisit his arguments.Image: khamenei.ir via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that if the security partnership between Belarus and Iran deepens, it could provide a faster, more secure flow of critical drone technology to Russian forces in Ukraine. After another year of war in Ukraine, has this ultimately…

Sputnik News 20260324 WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The situation around the US-Iran talks is “fluid,” with no speculations about possible meetings as part of these arrangements advisable until an official announcement is made, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “These are sensitive diplomatic discussions, and the United States will not negotiate through the press. This is a fluid situation, and speculation about meetings should not be deemed as final until they are formally announced by the White House,” Leavitt told ABC News on Monday. On Monday, US President Donald Trump said that the US and Iran had held very positive…

The TSP board is also reporting that participant satisfaction with the agency’s customer service center is at nearly 94%. Sean Davis March 25, 2026 12:09 pm < a min read Thrift Savings Plan participation is at an all-time high — and nearly 90% of Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) participants are contributing enough to receive a full match from the government. The TSP board is also reporting that participant satisfaction with the agency’s customer service center is at nearly 94%. Satisfaction scores have remained at that level, now for more than a year. The vast majority of federal…

Iran Press TV Wednesday, 25 March 2026 6:14 AM Spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari, says the strategic power that the enemy boasted about has “turned into a strategic defeat.” “If the self-proclaimed superpower of the world could have escaped this predicament, it would have done so by now. Do not call your defeat an agreement,” he said on Wednesday. This comes as US President Donald Trump backed away from his 48-hour ultimatum to strike Iran’s power plants after the Islamic Republic warned that all energy and power installations in the region would be targeted…

By Frud Bezhan March 24, 2026 President Donald Trump’s claim that the United States has held talks with Iran has raised hopes of an end to the weekslong war rocking the Middle East. But it is unclear if the purported talks — dismissed as “fake news” by Tehran — are a sign of a potential breakthrough, intended to calm panicked financial and global energy markets, or simply to buy Trump more time. Even if there is a concerted diplomatic push, a huge gap remains between the United States and Iran. Tehran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery…

National Guardsmen assigned to the Joint Task Force-District of Columbia have administered naloxone to more than 100 individuals experiencing drug-related emergencies since August 2025, according to a release. In response to an increase of drug-related overdoses in nation’s capital, JTF-DC integrated the administration of naloxone, commonly referred to by its brand name Narcan, into the required training criteria for patrol personnel. The additional training comes as part of President Donald Trump’s “Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” order.“The D.C. Safe and Beautiful mission is fundamentally about safeguarding the community,” Lt. Austin Coomes, a medical operations officer with the…