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BREAKING New Army Long-Range Units Head To Germany The Army will create two new units to coordinate long-range warfare in Eastern Europe: a Multi-Domain Task Force and a Theater Fires Command.

Israelis May Ban High Tech Cars From Bases: 'Perfect Espionage Vector' "Imagine you work at a chemical research part of a base. Its location is secret. But you have a smart car. Through other espionage activities, I found out you work there. I hack your phone or your car's online account," Keatron Evans said. "I track your location as you go to work every day. Now I know the specific GPS location of your work facility. It goes downhill quickly from there."

'Huge Step Forward:' Biden Taps First National Cyber Lead The administration is set to nominate two NSA veterans, one for the newly created national cybersecurity director position and one to head CISA. The new leaders, once confirmed by Congress, will have their hands full.

Iran Threatens Israel After Cyber Strike On Nuke Facility Middle Eastern sources say Sunday's cyberattack caused a blackout at the Natanz facility and damaged centrifuges. It occurred on the same day Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in Israel for talks, a day after Iran announced new centrifuges at Natanz, and within a week of the US restarting talks to revive the JCPOA.

FVL: Key RFP Coming This Summer Despite tightening budgets, the Army's pushing ahead with its plan to replace the Reagan-era UH-60 Black Hawk with a high-speed Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). It'll pick between Bell's V-280 and the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant-X next year, with the winner entering service in 2030.

DoD's New Pushback Against Chinese Money In US Defense Industry "The proactive, nefarious work coming from China and Russia in particular [will make US policymakers] "realize that we don't have control over everything that we think we have control over," Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini said

China Leads US In 3 Of 6 AI Areas: Bob Work The US has a narrow edge in its talent pool, its hardware and its algorithms, but China is ahead in accumulating data, deploying applications, and integrating different functions.

Army Still Too Focused On COIN: Fort Benning CO "All too often," the enemy in training scenarios is "two guys… with AK-47s and then another guy with an RPG," Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe says. "That's not the threat we need to be training our force against today."

Newest Cyber Warriors Vie For Top NSA Trophy Teams will face a series of rigorous challenges over three days as they compete to win the prestigious NCX trophy.

Army Revives '10x Platoon' Experiment In Robotics, AI The deadline for industry to submit proposals is May 5. The AI, networking, and robotics experiment, which had been postponed by COVID, will be part of the Project Convergence wargames in 2022.

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