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OSHKOSH, Wis. – Oshkosh Defense LLC, an Oshkosh Corporation [NYSE: OSK] business, announced today it has received two delivery orders from the U.S. Marine Corps for the Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires (ROGUE-Fires) Block 2 Production, totaling $92M.  Built on the battle-tested Oshkosh Defense Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), ROGUE-Fires combines next-generation autonomy with the protection, mobility, speed, and off-road capability Marines rely on in austere environments. The JLTV’s proven transportability, operational interoperability and available sustainment provide a strong foundation for expeditionary fires missions and distributed operations.  Oshkosh Defense was initially awarded the ROGUE-Fires contract in 2022, and the platform has since become the first semi-autonomous ground system fielded…

Iran Press TV Monday, 01 June 2026 5:51 AM Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says he will continue his path with strength, in direct response to baseless resignation rumors spread by an Israeli-backed media outlet. “I will continue as long as I breathe,” Pezeshkian said, addressing a cabinet meeting on Sunday. “Either we proceed with strength, or we are martyred — in either case, it is victory for us.” The president stressed that his life is no more valuable than that of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, adding, “We must be present on the scene…

The Suitland Federal Center serves as the headquarters for the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED June 1, 2026 6:35 pm 3 min read For the third time in four weeks, statistical agency employees working in the same federal building have had their offices temporarily closed because of an unspecified water issue. The Suitland Federal Center in Maryland — the headquarters for the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of Labor Statistics — was closed on Monday because of “continued water quality management treatment,” according to an…

Tonio Burton is having an incredible year in bodybuilding. After winning the IFBB New York Pro on May 9, he has taken another first-place trophy, this time at the Legion Sports Fest Pro in Reno, Nevada. The big man says that he has finally found his “look.” Here’s why. Reno’s own Tonio Burton has increased his placing in the Open Division at the Olympia finals by eight places since switching over from the 212 grouping in 2022, and if his current run is anything to go by, Tonio could take an even loftier spot at bodybuilding’s most prestigious show come…

He learned to fight with no gloves at age 8. Now Saw Min Min steps into the most high-profile bout of his career against one of Muay Thai’s most decorated active fighters. Yodlekpet Or Atchariya faces Myanmar’s Saw Min Min in the flyweight Muay Thai main event of ONE Friday Fights 157, streaming live from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, June 5. The 31-year-old four-time Muay Thai World Champion enters on a two-fight winning streak capped by a third-round bonus-winning stoppage in his most recent outing. He arrives at ONE Friday Fights 157 carrying forward pressure, heavy low-kick…

Defence modernisation across Europe is accelerating as armed forces prepare for a more contested, technology-driven and coalition-focused security environment. From NATO interoperability initiatives to multi-domain operations and autonomous systems deployment, European militaries are increasingly aware that operational advantage depends not only on platforms and weapon systems, but also on the resilience of the digital infrastructure supporting forces at the tactical edge. As defence organisations continue to invest in agile and rapidly deployable capabilities, rugged computing technologies are emerging as a foundational component of operational readiness. Rugged laptops, tablets and mobile workstations are no longer considered peripheral IT equipment; they are…

On February 3, 2025, exactly 20 years after former South African President Nelson Mandela stood in front of a cheering crowd in London’s Trafalgar Square to launch a historic global campaign to “make poverty history,” employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) received an email telling them not to come to work. The United States’ main agency for fighting poverty around the world was, as the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk put it, being “fed into the woodchipper.” At the same time, the world’s other biggest donors, including France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, were making drastic cuts to…

A U.S. appeals court on Monday said President Donald Trump’s administration could, for now, bar transgender people from enlisting in the military, but blocked the expulsion of current service members while a lawsuit plays out.A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a 2-1 ruling said the 2025 policy was unlawfully motivated “by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” But the Pentagon has broad powers to set enlistment standards, the court said, and can continue to ban transgender people from newly entering the military pending the outcome of a lawsuit…

With characters in games, as with people in real life, I always like to know where I stand. Much as I believe in second chances, betrayal is something that it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to come back from. It’s always very emotionally effective, then, for developers to subvert those kinds of expectations. Sometimes, they’ll give us the whole length of a game’s story to bond with a protagonist, only to reveal at the end that they weren’t at all who you thought they were. There’s nothing quite like a game that completely betrays player expectations. Other titles allow you…

The possible emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) promises both awesome opportunities and not-yet-quantified risks. The arrival of new paths to AGI capabilities has been considered analogous to the development of nuclear weapons. Just as game theory emerged as a means to model and derive strategic equilibria during the early development and operations of nuclear weapons, the author proposes to use game theory to capture and formalize some of the strategic dynamics surrounding the paths to AGI. In this paper, the author models the geopolitical race toward AGI as a series of strategic interactions between two primary actors—the United States…