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The M109A7 represents the newest model in BAE Systems’ M109 vehicle series. Credit: BAE Systems. BAE Systems has secured a contract valued at $473m from the US Army Contracting Command (ACC) Detroit to manufacture 40 additional M109A7 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzer sets. The contract, awarded in September 2025, marks the initial phase of a five-year contract arrangement. The sets include the M992A3 Carrier Ammunition Tracked vehicles. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Production for the M109A7 will take place in York, Pennsylvania, Elgin, Oklahoma…

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon spends $3.3 billion a year on its 216 laboratories, which have piled up thousands of patents, often for technologies which may never see the light of day, let alone a battlefield. But this morning, the Department’s CTO, Under Secretary for Research & Engineering Emil Michael, publicly launched a two-pronged crusade to change that. “[It’s] a frustrating point: Why do these innovations — and we have thousands of them in the labs, billions of dollars worth of IP that’s been created by the great minds in the labs — why does it not get all the way…

Under the Trump administration, wait times for mental health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs have increased while morale among employees has plummeted with the loss of 40,000 people, Senate Democrats said in a new report released Thursday. Actions taken by President Donald Trump, VA Secretary Doug Collins and the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, in the past year have affected services and research at the VA, harmed workers and delayed care and benefits to veterans, said Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, ranking Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. According to the report, appointment wait times for new…

The interim lightweight title is on the line in the UFC 324 main event on Saturday. Former interim champion Justin Gaethje faces No. 5 ranked Paddy Pimblett in the featured fight of the first UFC fight card of 2026. Former featherweight titleholder and BMF champion Max Holloway believes the interim title fight is a coin toss match with both fighters having clear paths to victory. “I think it’s going to be a fun fight. I think it’s going to be a great fight. I can see Paddy winning, but I can see Gaethje winning too,” Holloway said on his YouTube channel. “Paddy gets hit, so my…

On Saturday 20th June, the streets of Stockholm will be bathed in a golden light and inundated with partygoers marking the annual summer solstice celebration, Midsummer. Merrymakers will dance around maypoles and toast the longest day of the year with loved ones over traditional dishes of pickled herring, strawberries and new potatoes. Among them will be Annie Reid, who just hours before will have competed in the HYROX World Championships at the ripe age of 75. The mother-of-four joined her local gym, E3 Fitness, based in Lavenham, Suffolk three years ago with the intention of being fit enough to run…

feature Bernard Lambeau, a Belgium-based software developer and founder of several technology companies, created a programming language called Elo with the help of Anthropic’s Claude Code. Starting on December 25, 2025, he published a series of posts about the project. The first post names Claude as a co-author. “In roughly 24 hours of collaboration, we built a complete expression language with a parser, type system, three compilers, a standard library, a CLI tool, and a documentation website. Not bad for a day’s work,” Lambeau and Claude wrote. “Elo isn’t just a demonstration that AI can write code. It’s a demonstration…

UFC star Paddy Pimblett has explained why he believes he’s been able to get under Justin Gaethje’s skin ahead of UFC 324. Tonight at UFC 324, Paddy Pimblett will attempt to become the new UFC interim lightweight champion. It is easily the biggest fight of his mixed martial arts career thus far, and if he wins, he will set himself up for a blockbuster showdown with undisputed lightweight champion Ilia Topuria. Of course, getting to that point is going to be easier said than done. That’s because Paddy Pimblett is going up against the aforementioned Justin Gaethje, who is widely…

Raft’s AI Mission System empowers CENTCOM operators with on-demand computer vision tailored to real-world missions – broad-area satellite search, distributed maritime monitoring, and counter-UxS threat detection. MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 22, 2026 — Raft, a leading defense technology company, powering the software-driven foundation of modern warfare, has been awarded a highly competitive Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), in partnership with U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), following a five-day vendor bake-off. Hosted last fall by CENTCOM, the evaluation sought cutting-edge solutions to operationalize AI on the battlefield. Raft’s win underscores its ability to rapidly deliver…

The UFC has increased the size of its post-fight bonuses, and will also reward fighters who score finishes in their fights. Saturday night’s UFC 324 card will be the MMA promotion’s first of 2026, and its first on Paramount, its new broadcast home. Ahead of the event, there has been significant speculation about whether the bonuses it awards its fighters for their performances would increase. It turns out, they will — in a significant way. Until now, the UFC’s standard bonuses have been worth $50,000. Typically, the promotion has awarded four bonuses per card: two for each fighter involved in…

Most federal employees in the DC metro area will be granted weather and safety leave, with emergency employees, remote and telework employees expected to work. Jason Miller@jmillerWFED January 24, 2026 10:55 am 2 min read With an impending winter storm expected to dump as much as 10 inches of snow — and then freezing rain on top of that — in the Washington, D.C. metro area, the Office of Personnel Management decided late Friday night to close federal offices on Monday and institute maximum telework. OPM said in its weather status update that telework and remote workers are expected to…