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Updated: 5:29 p.m. The Pentagon’s main portal for AI tools now offers ChatGPT and Grok for Government alongside Google Gemini.A Defense Department official said the OpenAI product, dubbed ChatGPT Mil, would bring new strengths to GenAI.mil, where troops and defense civilians can use generative-AI tools to work on controlled, unclassified information, or CUI.“Gemini, I like for search functionality or scraping certain sources. Chat for more, like, text-based work,” said the official, who requested anonymity to speak before the official announcement on Monday. “We want to have access to all these different models, so people, if they prefer one for a certain task,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the Trump administration. No reason was given for the departure of Driscoll, who is a friend of Vice President JD Vance, but tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been widely reported. It marks the latest in a series of shakeups of the military leadership, with the Army especially seeing major upheaval. “Secretary Driscoll has been highly effective in advancing President Trump’s agenda to Make America Strong Again at…

The Defense Department on Monday announced two framework agreements between General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and Lockheed Martin to boost production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors. The agreements come as escalating conflicts with Iran and Ukraine have bled U.S. stockpiles of both THAAD and Patriot missiles. The ongoing conflict with Iran has depleted around two-thirds of the United States’ pre-war Patriot missile interceptor inventory, according to a July report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The think tank estimated that the U.S. has dispensed around 65%…

Increasingly, when employers hire entry-level workers, they are placing a higher value on candidates who have a variety of skills and experiences. As the labor market for young adults shifts accordingly, educators are facing a growing need to understand how kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12) students learn about and navigate college and career pathways. Research on how schools help students explore career fields and gain professional experience is therefore a key complement to research on traditional college preparation supports. In academic year 2025–2026, the authors of this report gathered survey data from district leaders via the American School District Panel,…

SÃO PAULO — Caio Borralho is cleared to resume training after a rib injury forced him to go under the knife and cancel a planned fight with Joe Pyfer at UFC 330, and he’s now aiming to be part of the upcoming UFC 334 card in New York on Nov. 14 to re-enter the discussion for a shot at the middleweight belt.“I think I’m around 90 to 95 percent, but I’m full training right now,” Borralho told MMA Fighting. “I’m doing everything, doing grappling, wrestling, striking and everything. I think a day for me to start a camp will be…

Walk into the Pentagon, climb the escalator, and an Uncle Sam-style poster points at you: “I want YOU to use AI.” It worked. GenAI.mil hit 1.5 million users in six months, and I have heard enough OpenAI-in-disguise pitches to last a lifetime. The adoption really is great, but the poster contains a problem. “Use” is the verb of tools, and the Department of Defense does not win by using tools. It wins by commanding forces.North of the Pentagon, a task force few know about operates in a Maryland basement. They collect intelligence, develop missions, and execute against targets 24/7 within…

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Eight Army National Guard information operations officers graduated from a newly developed Psychological Operations Qualification Course July 24 at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, marking a significant milestone in Army transformation. For the first time, Soldiers from all three components — Regular Army, National Guard and Army Reserve — are training together to combat modern cognitive warfare threats. As adversaries increasingly rely on sophisticated disinformation campaigns and information warfare to undermine global stability, the Army recognized a need for a unified response. The new integrated training model ensures that Army…

MKE continues to develop critical defence systems in line with the of the TurkishArmed Forces in the field. Under a joint project carried out with the Secretariat ofDefence Industries of Türkiye, MMT-76 which successfully completed its groundqualification trials in 2025, has now passed its aerial qualification tests forhelicopter use with a 100% success rate. Having already earned readiness for serial production by passing 40 differentNATO standard tests, MMT-76 delivered outstanding performance in helicoptervibration simulation, reliability and durability, low- and high-temperature, and air-toground firing trials, qualifying it for use as a door gun on general-purposehelicopters. Video: MKE With this achievement, the…

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Ken Wilsbach met with Israeli military leaders last week to discuss what Israel Defense Forces called the “regional situation” of the Iran war just before the conflict passed its six-month mark.Wilsbach met with Israel Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and the Commander of the Israeli Air Force Maj. Gen. Omar Tishler on Aug. 23, the IDF announced in a Wednesday social media post, with a photo of Wilsbach and Zamir shaking hands.Wilsbach confirmed the meeting in Israel on his own social media, saying the three discussed “shared priorities…

An official rendering of an F-22A Raptor firing an AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile. (USAF)Australia will be the first export customer of the highly secretive Lockheed Martin AIM-260A Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM).The announcement was made by Minister of Defence Richard Marles on 6 August on the sidelines of Exercise Pitch Black, Australia’s premier international air combat exercise held in the Northern Territory.A press release said the air-to-air missiles will be acquired via US Foreign Military Sales at a cost of US$528.37 million. These will be integrated first onto the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) F/A-18F Super Hornets, followed by…