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Minnesota just passed a law that's going to ramp up EV adoption

Minnesota’s new law includes an EV rebate of $2,500 for a new car and $600 for a used one, with no income caps, among other EV incentives. That puts Minnesota in the company of such states as Connecticut, California, Massachusetts, and Maine, and it joins Illinois as one of two Midwestern states with EV rebate programs. Minnesotans will receive $15.716 million in first-time rebates for…
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GamingNews

Bungie and PlayStation resurrect Marathon

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Sony and Bungie revealed a new Marathon game during today’s PlayStation Showcase. Marathon was Bungie’s shooter franchise before striking rich with Destiny. This is the first new entry in the series since 1996’s Marathon Infinity. This is Bungie’s first new game for PlayStation since…
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DefenseNews

GAO blasts T-7 delays, cites ‘tenuous’ Air Force-Boeing relationship

WASHINGTON — Boeing’s effort to build a new trainer aircraft for the Air Force is plagued by safety problems, schedule and testing delays, and the risk the T-7A Red Hawk could fall even further behind schedule, the Government Accountability Office said in a scathing report. Boeing’s relationship with the Air Force has also been strained by the T-7′s issues, GAO said in the May 18 report…
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DefenseNews

Lockheed paces JADC2 information-sharing at Northern Edge

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor by revenue, said its products were used in an exercise near Alaska to consistently share military information across services and environments. The testing during Northern Edge, a biennial experiment…
DefenseNews

The US must maximize F-35 production

Air superiority is fundamental to victory in modern conflict. The world is seeing this quite starkly in Ukraine, for example, where the Russians have struggled to advance largely because they cannot control the skies. Ukraine’s layered air defense system makes its airspace…
DefenseNews

US Army revamps program executive offices to sharpen cyber focus

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Army cyber and technology programs are changing hands amid a shake-up of the service’s acquisitions offices. The Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, or PEO IEW&S, headed by Mark Kitz, will by Oct. 1 absorb defensive cyber operations, cyber analytics and detection, cyber platforms and systems, and the technology applications office.
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