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These awards are presented annually to recognize outstanding achievements in weapon systems and military equipment maintenance.

Two BRAVO AI Battle Labs will be established at U.S. European Command and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to expedite learning from Defense Department data.

Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout:Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met today with President of Angola João Manuel Goncalves Lourenço to advance the growing U.S.-Angola bilateral defense relationship and address regional security issues. They also discussed mutual priorities and concrete next steps the two nations will take

The Defense Department, through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, recently announced grant awards totaling up to $53 million to 13 organizations under the National Defense Education Program.

U.S. officials have secured the return of Private Travis King from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The Defense Department issued a statement on the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border violence.

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Dr. Ely Ratner co-chaired the seventh U.S.-India 2+2 Intersessional Dialogue in Washington, D.C.

The DOD announced the 2023 class of the Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative. LUCI fellows are accomplished researchers within defense laboratories who seek to collaborate with prominent DOD-funded academic researchers.

The DOD has launched a munitions campus pilot project to support multiple emerging domestic businesses through a shared facility that will reduce cost and lower barriers to entry.

The Department of Defense Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation released its Fiscal Year 2022 Defense Spending by State report to help states and communities better understand how Defense procurement, personnel spending and grants impact their economies.