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The Pentagon’s counterdrone task force awarded Kaizen Laboratories $15 million to build a “two-way” marketplace designed, in part, to make selling tech to foreign militaries easier. The site was built from a “blank slate” and developed to facilitate the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sale Fast Lane Initiative, Nikhil Reddy, Kaizen’s co-founder and CEO, told reporters ahead of the announcement. “We just launched it, and we’ll continue to bring on more partner nations, a ton more vendors to the system,” Reddy said. The AI-backed marketplace has been online for about two weeks, but details of the contract weren’t publicly released until late Monday. The Pentagon…

About one-third of East Asia’s population is projected to be 60 or older by 2050, making it the world’s fastest-aging region. Public debates about population aging have largely centered on its effects on democratic governance, economic growth, pension sustainability, healthcare, urban planning, and housing policy. Yet one area remains notably underdiscussed: policing.  Across graying societies, police are becoming the “catch-all” agency for managing aging as their roles and workloads have expanded in unprecedented ways. Police officers frequently mobilize to search for missing seniors and answer late-night calls from those who are confused or disoriented. As AI-powered scams become increasingly common,…

Peter Huessy, RealClearDefense . . . despite relatively stable funding for the last 16 years, and continued support for the current program of record to modernize our nuclear forces, serious… Source link

In August 2024, Germany became the first European country to deport Afghan nationals to Afghanistan since the Taliban’s takeover. The deportation process was facilitated by Qatar. This happened after Germany’s “Traffic Light Coalition” government decided to change the rules to deport foreign nationals found guilty of serious crimes, a policy shift motivated by a deadly knife attack on a police officer in Mannheim. At the time, Germany’s then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Germany would not tolerate religious extremists or criminals who exploit the country’s laws protecting refugees. He added, “Such criminals should be deported even if they come from Syria…

Steve Chill, Luke Reiner & Robert B. Newman, Jr., DODReads As authors with real-world experience in large-scale disaster planning, we believe William Forstchen’s One Second After gets the… Source link

The planned naming of a disputed Kuril island after Richard Sorge is the latest example of Russia strengthening its control over the features. It is part of a decade-long effort by Moscow to use commemoration to reinforce its claim regardless of Tokyo’s protest.  On July 28, the Sakhalin branch of the Russian Geographical Society announced the future placement of a plaque for Sorge, a Soviet intelligence officer, on an uninhabited island in the Lesser Kurils. Moscow is expected to rename the island after Sorge soon. The announcement drew attention in Japan given the island’s location and Sorge’s legacy. The island…

Heather Mongilio, USNI News CDR Joseph Sammur was relieved as the commanding officer of USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) (Blue Crew) last week due to a loss of confidence Source link

CDR Salamander If you use pliers as a screwdriver, you just make a mess Source link

Space safety and security for military commanders, intelligence agencies, and civil and commercial satellite operators hinges on one central assumption: that the space situational awareness (SSA) information that underpins their critical decision-making processes is “fit for purpose” – sufficiently accurate, timely, and complete to be trusted. That assumption deserves renewed scrutiny in light of new research findings, which underscore the need for governments and industry worldwide to reassess the risk profile of today’s space architecture, and more importantly, to reexamine the methods they use to predict conjunctions and avoid collisions Every day, spacecraft operators must decide whether to maneuver valuable…

Gary Warner, S&S Work on the B-21 Raider bomber and the F-47 sixth-generation fighter are ahead of schedule, the Air Force general in charge of development of both projects said last week Source link