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Exclusive: Army secretary talks force structure cuts, SOF ‘reform’

The Army is preparing to ax some units and restructure others, the service’s top civilian told Army Times in an exclusive phone interview Friday, but it’s still not clear when and how the changes will play out. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth also attributed “some” of the moves to “the recruiting challenges that we’ve been experiencing…if we don’t turn our recruiting situation…
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Korean Air delivers first fuselage for Boeing AH-6 helicopters

MELBOURNE, Australia — Korean Air has delivered its first AH-6 helicopter fuselage built under a contract with Boeing, the South Korean company announced June 26. Korean Air signed the deal in December 2021 to manufacture eight fuselages for AH-6 helicopters that will undergo final assembly by Boeing Defense, Space and Security. The AH-6 is a modernized, light attack variant of the MH-6 special…
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Garciga expected to be next US Army chief information officer

WASHINGTON — Leonel Garciga, most recently the top technology officer for U.S. Army intelligence, will be the service’s next civilian chief information officer, C4ISRNET and Army Times have learned. Garciga is expected to take the post in mid-July. He will succeed Raj Iyer, who after nearly three years as CIO rejoined private industry, according to an internal announcement. The position has…
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White House mum on jailed Defense News correspondent

Senior White House officials said press freedom would be among the topics discussed this week by President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in private meetings, but would not commit to specifically intervening in the case of Defense News contributor Vivek Raghuvanshi. Raghuvanshi, a journalist and freelancer to Defense News for more than three decades, was jailed in mid-May by…
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