Source: United States Department of War
The Department of War, Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation, awarded Independent School District No 57 of Garfield County a $22 million grant as the federal share of a larger $28.2 million project to construct a new Eisenhower Elementary School at Vance Air Force Base, Okla.
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Joint Interagency Task Force 401 announced the adoption of the Standard Guidelines for Test and Evaluation of Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies, requiring that all C-sUAS evaluations capture the same core data to facilitate a single, coherent, and reliable body of evidence for use throughout the War Department.
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Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, U.S. Space Command commander, announced that Maj. Gen. Terry L. Grisham, a long-time Alabama native with nearly 40 years of military and civilian service, will serve as the command’s transition team director.
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Undersecretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby concluded a visit to South Korea and Japan where he met with senior defense and government officials in Seoul and Tokyo to advance the key principles of the 2026 National Defense Strategy and the president’s peace through strength agenda.
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The War Department announced the 25 vendors invited to compete in Phase I of the Drone Dominance Program, an acquisition reform effort designed to rapidly field low-cost, unmanned one-way attack drones at scale as part of strengthening America’s Arsenal of Freedom.
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Emil Michael, undersecretary of war for research and engineering, announced new actions to protect DOW-funded research from malign foreign influence, intellectual property theft and other forms of exploitation that threaten the security and economic interests of the U.S.
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Framework agreement with Lockheed Martin is the first in a series of planned Acquisition Transformation Strategy actions with defense industrial base contractors that provide long-term, stable and growing demand signals to encourage industry investment, with a goal of eliminating government facilitization burdens.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will travel to Newport News, Va., to visit shipbuilding yards and a recruiting station as part of the nationwide “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, a call to action to revitalize America’s manufacturing might and reenergize the nation’s workforce.
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Mr. Alvaro Smith, deputy assistant secretary of war for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, met with China’s Major General Ye Jiang, deputy director of the Central Military Commission Office for International Military Cooperation, in Washington, for the 19th annual U.S.-China Defense Policy Coordination Talks.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth welcomed Richard Marles, Australia’s deputy prime minister and minister of defense, and John Healey, the United Kingdom’s secretary of state for defense, to the Pentagon for the annual AUKUS Defense Ministers’ Meeting.