2:00 PM EST

Getting on Track: Space and Airborne Sensors for Hypersonic Missile Defense

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2023-12-18/

https://www.csis.org/events/getting-track-space-and-airborne-sensors-hypersonic-missile-defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZslOrQktEU

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Defense Department Officials Discuss Hypersonic Missiles

Defense Department officials discuss space and airborne missiles at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?532476-1/defense-department-officials-discuss-hypersonic-missiles

2:00 PM EST

David Miliband & Hillary Rodham Clinton will discuss the deepening global humanitarian crises covered in the IRC’s 2024 Emergency Watchlist - 2024 IRC Emergency Watchlist: No Myths, Just Facts

Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University

https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=%2Fpublic%2Fcals%2FMainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb7c-8c48b4ab-018c-4aa0eb20-00003760events@columbia.edu&recurrenceId=

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-2024-irc-emergency-watchlist-no-myths-just-facts-tickets-774487281307?aff=oddtdtcreator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1h1aa0Iv1Y

12:06 PM EST

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is traveling. His remarks at a joint press conference at 9:30 a.m. EST with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv, Israel, will be livestreamed on Defense.gov and broadcast on Channel 2 in the Pentagon.

Department of Defense

https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2023-12-18/

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Secretary Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Gallant Joint News Conference

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, hold a joint news conference in Tel Aviv.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?532494-1/secretary-austin-israeli-defense-minister-gallant-joint-news-conference

DOD Releases Microelectronics Commons FY24 Call for Projects to Catalyze U.S. Microelectronics Innovation

Dec. 18, 2023

As part of the implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act and President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the Department of Defense today announced the Microelectronics Commons (Commons) FY24 Call for Projects (CFP), which provides up to $280 million to projects that support the domestic prototyping and fabrication of microelectronics, building a sustainable pipeline of domestically produced microelectronics for our military.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3620694/dod-releases-microelectronics-commons-fy24-call-for-projects-to-catalyze-us-mic/

Flag Officer Assignments

Dec. 18, 2023

Dec. 18, 2023 |

The secretary of the Navy and chief of naval operations announced the following assignments

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3620160/flag-officer-assignments/

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yesterday

https://twitter.com/FLLFlyer/status/1736560248112988666

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@jeremycarl4

1/ Today at Arlington National Cemetery, they will tear down a memorial built to celebrate reconciliation between North and South.

But commanding American General and President U.S. Grant had a dramatically different view of reconciliation than the monument wreckers.

10:09 AM · Dec 18, 2023

https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4/status/1736765550150443378

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