By Emelie Rutherford Congress has given the Coast Guard $30.3 million to rehab a dry-docked icebreaker, though service officials say more money would be needed to bring back the cutter for up to a decade's worth of use. The 32-year-old Polar Star, currently in caretaker status, is one of the service's three icebreakers--vessels receiving increased interest because of ice melt in the Arctic. The Homeland Security appropriations act--signed into law by President Bush on Sept. 30, as part of a…
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The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]
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Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]
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