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The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the winners of the fiscal year 2023 Nunn-Perry Award, recognizing excellence in the DoD Mentor-Protégé Program. The program will celebrate the accomplishments of this year's winners on August 1, 2024, at the Mentor-Protégé Summit in Detroit, MI.
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President Biden is an extraordinary guardian of America's national security. I am deeply grateful for his leadership and statesmanship. He has a secure place in American history as one of our great foreign-policy presidents.
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Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout:
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Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout:
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The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the publication of the Fiscal Year 2023 update to the list of foreign institutions engaging in problematic activities and reaffirmed the FY22 list of foreign talent programs that pose a threat to national security, as required by Section 1286 of the FY19 National Defense Authorization Act.
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Department of Defense Spokeswoman Lt. Col. Kimbia Rey provided the following readout:
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The Defense Innovation Board (DIB) held its summer board meeting at the Pentagon on July 17, 2024.
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Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout:
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Today, the Department of Defense moved to rectify an old injustice and address a painful episode in its history. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III commended the Secretary of the Navy's decision to exonerate 258 Black sailors who were unjustly court-martialed following the explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California on July 17, 1944. The blast resulted in the deaths of 320 sailors.
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Pentagon Spokesman Lt. Col. Devin Robinson provided the following readout:
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Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout:
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The United States and the Kingdom of Bahrain held the U.S.-Bahrain Military Consultative Committee (MCC) in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2024. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, Dan Shapiro, led the U.S. delegation, alongside representatives from U.S. Central Command, the Joint Staff, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and the State Department. Minister of Defence Affairs His Excellency Lieutenant General Abdullah Bin Hassan Al-Noaimi led Bahrain's delegation with representatives from the Royal Bahraini Air Force, Royal Bahraini Naval Forces, and...
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The Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), in partnership with the Office of Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), conducted the first Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) Industry Insights Forum. The one-day event, held at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA, highlighted collaborative opportunities for private industry to address the DoD's artificial intelligence (AI) needs while emphasizing the significance of recent GIDE iterations.
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Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout:
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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) are seeking contractors to provide federal facilities in several mid-Atlantic and Midwest states with 100% carbon pollution-free electricity (CFE) by 2030. These two parallel clean electricity procurements, expected to be awarded later this year, would represent one of the federal government's largest-ever clean electricity purchases.
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The United States Department of Defense and Singapore Ministry of Defence have signed a Statement of Intent (SOI) to enhance cooperation in data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. The SOI was signed by Dr. Radha Iyengar Plumb, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the U.S., and BG Yew Chee Leung, MINDEF's Deputy Secretary (Technology).
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Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout:
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The entire Department of Defense condemns this violence, which has absolutely no place in our democracy. This is not the way that we resolve our differences in America — and it must never be. I'm relieved that reports indicate former President Trump is safe, and I am praying for him and his family and everyone affected by this appalling incident.
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced today that the president has made the following nominations:
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced today that the president has made the following nomination: Army Lt. Gen. Ronald P. Clark for appointment to the grade of general, with assignment as commanding general, U.S. Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Clark is currently serving as the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C.