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Army bases need better public transit, service’s chief of staff says

WASHINGTON — The Army’s top general wants to see more and better public transit options for soldiers living on installations across the county, he said Monday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference. Gen. Randy George, who was confirmed as the service’s chief of staff on Sept. 21, suggested during a press conference that expanding on-base public transit could help improve…
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CACI team focusing on software, signals following US Army jammer deal

WASHINGTON — A CACI International team will spend the coming months refining software and concentrating on “signals of interest” after winning a $1.5 million electronic warfare contract from the U.S. Army. The service last month tapped CACI-owned Mastodon Design to develop the Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team Manpack. The award followed a half year of whitepaper submissions and…
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Researchers turn to Harry Potter to make AI forget about copyrighted material

As the debate heats up around the use of copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama 2, Anthropic’s Claude 2, one obvious question arises: can these models even be altered or edited to remove their knowledge of such works, without totally retraining them or rearchitecting them? In a new paper published on the open access and non-peer…
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The Army’s new fitness program team will come to you

WASHINGTON — The command rolling out the Army’s new, all-encompassing fitness program has a fresh way to get the program’s expertise inside more units. If an active duty division commander can dedicate a five-soldier team — comprised of one captain, two senior…
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Change of plans: US Army embraces lessons learned from war in Ukraine

WASHINGTON — Expensive, massive tanks destroyed by small and cheap loitering munitions. Drones helping artillery locate targets. A battlefield so flooded with sensors that it’s impossible to stay hidden for long. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Army has carefully taken note of these trends. Now those changes are reshaping the service’s plans from acquisition to how to…
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