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Through T-REX, DoD seeks to fill technology gaps

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5 months ago

September 2, 2025

Vicky

The Defense Department’s Technology Readiness Experimentation is all about finding the technology needles in the haystack.

Through this live-fire and prototype demonstration, T-REX is trying to validate the technical maturation and military utility of specific technologies to fill gaps in the warfighters’ arsenal.

These gaps could be urgent operational needs or from an integrated priority list developed by the goals set by the Joint Staff.

“T-REX is unique in the case that we’re take technologies right out of the laboratory. We’re talking technology readiness levels anywhere between four and six, which is our initial entry criteria. There are special use cases, where we go a little earlier than that, if it’s software use initiatives, but we need to make sure that as prototypes come into fruition from concept and we’re driving the capability and fielding into the warfighters hands, that it works,” said Lt. Col. Matt Limeberry, the commander of the Rapid Assessment of Prototype Technology Readiness (RAPTR) Task Force in Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, on Ask the CIO. “That technology come with their white sheets, their quad charts, and we say, ‘Hey, if you have an unmanned aerial system that can fly an endurance of eight hours and carry a 10-pound payload, well, prove it in any platform, any domain, outside of the laboratory and outside of a controlled environment.’”

Limeberry said his team of about 100 uniformed personnel on the RAPTR Task Force, stationed at Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck in Indiana, puts these technologies through their paces in an environment that closely duplicates certain operational environments.

Indiana National Guard industry partners test launch unmanned aerial systems designed to enhance real-time surveillance and battlefield awareness at the Department of Defense’s 10-day Technology Readiness Experimentation event, hosted by the Indiana National Guard’s Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve Task Force at Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh, Indiana, on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Jonah Alvarez, Indiana National Guard Headquarters)

“As these technologies come through and use T-REX as a venue, we want to be that publisher, that clearinghouse and underwriting authority for technologies going to the warfighter. That speed of relevancy matters,” he said. “As technologies are being assessed in T-REX, they get that military utility feedback from the warfighter, and can iterate on the spot. That’s purposeful for a reason because it helps us buy down risk now for the future warfighter. What we say is let the warfighter fight tonight with tomorrow’s technology. T-REX does that. It helps us buy down risk. It helps us save costs and iterate technology fast and early, fail often and fast, because when the warfighter needs it.”

Brandon Bean, the senior director for artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions in the chief technology office in the defense division at General Dynamics-IT (GDIT), said his team experienced these concepts in action. He called T-REX “the ideal proving ground. It created realistic, fast-paced and unforgiving circumstances.”

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DOGMA platform put through its paces

At the T-REX exercise in the summer of 2024, GDIT and its partners, including Amazon Web Services, tested out the Defense Operations Grid-Mesh Accelerator (DOGMA) platform, which is an AI software that is aiming to modernize long-range communications to support U.S. air defense systems.

GDIT says DOGMA integrates cloud and AI technologies with satellite connectivity capabilities in order to streamline data processing, analysis and decision making.

Bean said the Army and GDIT used T-REX to validate the platform’s adaptability, latency and ability to perform under pressure, while still being able to show how modular edge AI capabilities can extend decision making to the tactical edge, even without reliable communications.

“We combine resilient mesh networking edge optimized compute and real time AI and machine learning inference to process sensor data without the reliance on the persistent cloud connectivity when necessary, but when we’re in a disrupted, degraded, intermittent and low-bandwidth (DDIL) condition, we’re able to also extend connectivity beyond the edge of the battlefield using AWS as a secure cloud backbone,” Bean said. “It was originally built for NORAD and the Alaskan command to predict aircraft trajectories in low visibility radar denied environments, using historical and real-time sensor data. It was originally built for looking for what we call big hunks of metal in the sky. We quickly were able to adapt the solution for T-REX to adapt to the counter UAS mission.”

Bean said GDIT pivoted its use case toward counter UAS in about two weeks leading up to the exercise and then during T-REX, it modified the technology again in about eight hours to test it at the edge with low-bandwidth.

“In an environment like T-REX, there’s always something that’s going to be thrown at you. The first was being able to identify when we wanted to design our model retraining triggers. When you’re working on data like UAS data, over time, that data will drift, and that could be from a compendium of things and it’s mainly just the way the data is being sent and we are adding new sensors. So we really were able to get a good sense of what the real world conditions would be, allowing us to essentially model the auto-retraining of our models based on that live data drift and orchestrate how we do that at the edge when we’re actually in detail,” he said. “Another one would be our edge orchestration logic. We’re currently working to harden how DOGMA prioritizes its edge workloads when compute is constrained. That was one of the big things we dealt with out there.”

T-REX is a twice-a-year exercise

Limeberry said during T-REX, the Army has key performance measures to evaluate the technologies against to ensure they meet warfighter needs. These include everything from supply chain risk management to scalability to being able to change, correct and adjust in near-real time.

Bean said DOGMA could be used by other agencies beyond DoD. He said the Department of Homeland Security, for example, is another agency with UAS mission areas, whether it’s Customs and Border Protection or FEMA. The Agriculture and Interior departments also are using drones to measure and manage land and wilderness areas.

“There are a lot of a lot of places out there where people don’t really assume DOGMA is beneficial, but anywhere that you need analytics and you need data moved off of the objective, whether that objective is an internet of things sensor, whether it’s a camera, whether it is edge compute, some type of a radar sensor, DOGMA is applicable,” he said. “It’s that secure backbone that allow you to get that data off of the objective and somewhere that you can use it, whether it is out at the edge or back at the core data center.”

Limeberry said DoD has used T-REX to look at an assortment of other technologies too, including resiliency in that communication, predictability in the AI modeling and deterring, detecting and defeating adversarial aerial platforms that threaten the security of bases.

“We are prefacing into 2026 and we’re looking at what we call ‘Top Gun,’ which is a first-person view UAS platforms and drone-on-drone conflict. We are looking at offensive and defensive swarming capabilities, multi domain, collaborative autonomy, so controlling air, maritime and aerial platforms at the same time through learning autonomous stacks,” he said. “It’s all about how we achieve some of the latest administration executive orders of American drone dominance. These tie into those policies and procedures that we want to achieve in American made and manufactured requirements to build our defense industrial base moving forward into the future.”

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‘Pamphlets About Sharia Law and Other Islamic Things’ in Texas High School

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9 hours ago

February 11, 2026

Vicky

Image: Wikimedia Commons (Deceased Chief Commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and Others)

High school students in Wylie, Texas, were recently provided with Muslim religious materials by representatives of an Islamic organization called Why Islam.

On February 2, in a video shared on X by Sara Gonzales, the president of the High School Republicans at Wiley East High School disclosed that members of Why Islam were providing hijabs to certain female students, along with Qurans and pamphlets about Sharia law to the student body—over their lunch hour “on public school taxpayer-funded time.”

TEXAS BEWARE

Wylie, TX High School Republican Club says Islam group gave hijabs to females during lunch.

They gave SHARIA LAW pamphlets.

On public school taxpayer funded time.

We’re doing it to ourselves. It has to stop. pic.twitter.com/l1yBX36nfZ

— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) February 3, 2026

In the follow-up reports regarding this incident, media outlets failed to mention Why Islam’s ties to groups that have long been scrutinized for their anti-Semitic views, sympathies toward terrorism, and other concerning affiliations.

Image: Screenshot by J.M. Phelps: Ties to ICNA visible on Why Islam’s website

Interestingly, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) serves as the “chief representative body” in the U.S. for Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), a South Asian Islamist movement. JeI’s militant wing, Hizbul Mujahideen, has been classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. since 2017.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism also reported that ICNA’s websites once featured links to groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and militant factions active in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Furthermore, ICNA has supported the Islamic Society in Gaza, a group that has been known to radicalize children to support Hamas.

Why should this be a concern for the Texas school district, or any school district for that matter? Because, as stated by Focus on Western Islamism, “ICNA runs…a number of da’wah [proselytization] campaigns—the most active of which is called Why Islam.”

The Gateway Pundit interviewed Melanie Kurdys, a board member of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE). When the author of this article pointed out the connections between Why Islam and ICNA, as well as ICNA’s links to JeI, she was appalled.

She likened the discovery to that of the infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in America’s school systems through initiatives like Confucius Classrooms in K-12 schools and Confucius Institutes at universities.

“I think people have opened their eyes to this,” Kurdys said. “We went through a period of not caring, and now we realize that this was the way the communists managed to infiltrate our country and attempt to seize control. Why would you think this is any different?”

She extended the benefit of the doubt to those handing out the Muslim materials to students at the high school, suggesting they might be unaware of Why Islam’s connections to antisemitic, terror sympathizing groups. However, she also cautioned, “you always have the canary in the coal mine.”

With regard to Why Islam advocating for their Islamic beliefs in the public school, she said other groups in the community should have been afforded the same opportunity, having “a seat at the table.” To the contrary, the student featured in the video claimed that no other faith groups had ever been invited, asserting, “we’ve never had a faith group to my understanding.”

Given that Sharia law is often viewed as incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, American laws, and ” the American way of life,” Kurdys asked why the distribution of pamphlets on this subject was permitted. “Would Americans be granted the same interfaith respect and mutual survival [in a Muslim-majority nation]?”

While she encourages interfaith dialogue for students to gain knowledge, she also fears what could happen if it’s left unbridled and unchecked. After all, there’s already this example in Texas public schools with ties to a few controversial, perhaps dangerous, players.

Whether it’s related to the infiltration of Islamist groups or the CCP, or pornography in libraries, Kurdys said, “You can protect your kids by keeping them out of the government schools and opting for homeschooling or private education.”

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Trump Admin to Repeal Obama-Era Climate Rule in ‘Largest Act of Deregulation in the History of the US’

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9 hours ago

February 11, 2026

Vicky

The Trump administration is planning to wipe away the foundation that supported Obama-era regulations on greenhouse gasses, according to a new report.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the so-called “endangerment finding” of 2009 that labeled six greenhouse gasses as a threat to public health and welfare will be overturned.

The finding gave the Environmental Protection Agency legal authority to limit emissions from power plants and vehicles.

“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said.

Trump admin to repeal Obama-era greenhouse gas finding in large-scale deregulationhttps://t.co/Ci46PRtHKH

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 10, 2026

The final rule is expected to be made public this week, the Journal wrote.

The Journal said the rule “removes the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse-gas emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions and reporting obligations for industries,” citing administration officials it did not name as the source of the report.

The new rule will not directly overturn regulations on power plant emissions but could be a first step in that direction, The Journal report said.

Trump began the process on the day he became president by directing the EPA to determine if the finding should remain in place. In July, the EPA first proposed rescinding the finding.

The report said the officials it did not name estimated removing the finding would reduce costs of compliance by about $1 trillion.

“More energy drives human flourishing,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. “Energy abundance is the thing that we have to focus on, not regulating certain forms of energy out.”

On Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to announce an executive order directing the War Department to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants.

Trump has made no secret of his support for wiping away regulations that constrict America’s energy supplying.

“My Administration is committed to unleashing American energy, especially through the removal of all illegitimate impediments to the identification, development, siting, production, investment in, or use of domestic energy resources — particularly oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, geothermal, biofuel, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources,” Trump wrote in a 2025 fact sheet,

“An affordable and reliable domestic energy supply is essential to the national and economic security of the United States, as well as our foreign policy. Simply put, Americans are better off when the United States is energy dominant.”

Last month, Trump tweaked the climate change crowd over the extreme cold that hit the U.S.

“Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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WAYNE ROOT: President Trump, Take the Offensive. The Moment to Strike is Now. Prove You’re the Greatest Dealmaker in History- Pass the SAVE Act. As a Bonus, Create “Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” Tie it all to Epstein.

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9 hours ago

February 11, 2026

Vicky

By Wayne Allyn Root

I can feel it. The momentum has shifted. This is the moment to take action, to be aggressive, to go for broke.

This is the moment to put the radical left losers on their heels.

This is the moment to win the midterms.

This is the moment to stop voter fraud forever. Which means we stop Democrats from winning elections forever. Because without fraud…and rigged elections…they’ve got nothing. They can’t win without fraud.

This is the moment to use the shocking Epstein scandal to educate the American people.

But most of all, this is the moment to prove Mr. President that you’re the greatest dealmaker in history!

Let’s start with the “Art of the Deal.”

The SAVE Act is the whole enchilada. The whole kit and caboodle. The whole kitchen sink.

Pass it by hook or crook, by any and all means necessary…and the GOP wins the midterms…wins the presidency in 2028…and then with the help of a new Census that bans the counting of illegal aliens, the GOP gains enough electoral votes and new seats in Congress to win for decades to come.

We will control the electoral map!

But we have to get to 2030 first. We can’t get there if we lose the midterms, and lose the presidency in 2028. Then it’s all over. All our plans are dead. If we lose because we didn’t pass the SAVE Act, then the mass deportation is stopped. And election integrity is dead on arrival. Then after 2028 the borders will be open again.And then illegal aliens will vote by the millions to elect Democrats forever more.

It all begins and ends with the SAVE Act.

Here’s how to get it done…

Do you remember Obamacare? Does anyone remember how it passed? It passed only with the most disgusting, disgraceful, blatant, out-in-the-open bribery in America’s history.

Obama twisted the arms of Democrat Congressmen and Senators until they broke. He bribed the last remaining holdouts with anything and everything they wanted to change their final votes to a “YES.” He opened the vault and gave away the kitchen sink (with taxpayer money, of course). He made their dreams come true. He offered them so many goodies that no one could say no.

This was legal bribery- obviously. Because no one in the GOP said a word. The Supreme Court never said a word. Obama used taxpayer money and the most obscne giveawa in history to pass Obamacare by one vote in the US Senate (exactly the 60 he needed to defeat the Filibuster)- and therefore change the entire US economy and healthcare system forever. Trillions of dollars changed hands because of that one vote.

Obama changed the course of history by one vote. And he got the final few votes necessary by any means possible, by hook or crook. He gave away the store- with your money!

Obama gave away billions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to benefit his biggest Democrat donors with trillions of dollars of healthcare spending.

That’s the way the game is played in DC, President Trump.

Now it’s your turn President Trump to get the deal done…to change the course of history…to prove the “Art of the Deal”…to twist arms until they break…to play Santa and dole out to the holdouts whatever it takes to get the deciding votes. Obama proved it’s all legal.

I don’t care how you get it done. Bend the rules. Give away the store. Legally bribe the holdouts. Legal Senate maneuvering. Kill the Filibuster. Whatever you have to do- DO IT.

This is your legacy, President Trump.

Prove you’re the greatest dealmaker in history. This is your “Art of the Deal” moment.

The SAVE Act means Democrats can’t rig and steal elections anymore. They’ll have to win with ideas- and they don’t have any ideas that appeal to the majority of American voters.

Install Photo Voter ID to vote in federal elections. Install proof of citizenship to vote. End mail-in ballots. Do all of that and Democrats can’t win elections.

Game, set, match.

But this is the last chance EVER to pass it. Fail to pass it and we lose the midterms. With a Democrat majority the chance for election integrity is gone forever. So is the chance to change the Census to ban the counting of illegals. So is mass deportation.

So is your presidency. The whole MAGA agenda is over and you’re a lame duck president.

We become a one-party state. Then comes the censorship and weaponization all over again. Then they send you to prison after your presidency is over.

Pass the damn SAVE Act- by any means necessary.

Now to part 2. “The Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” America is shocked, outraged and disgusted by Epstein. Rightfully so. Here’s how to tie that outrage to mass deportation.

It’s time to win the PR offensive. It’s time to show the American people why mass deportation is the only way to protect their children. Tie it all to Epstein.

Illegal immigration is Epstein times millions.

America sees one 9-year-old child abused and sexually assaulted by Epstein- and they freak out (as well they should). They see hundreds of underage girls pimped out by Epstein to the most powerful people in the world- and the nation freaks out (as well they should).

But every hour of every day, thousands of young children are assaulted, abused, raped and murdered. All because of open borders, illegal immigration, transnational gangs and Drug Cartels. That’s their business- the Cartels make billions of dollars per week on sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, pedophilia, and the drug trafficking that is killing our children- by the hundreds of thousands.

It’s time for “Show and Tell.”

Create “The Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” Pay for hundreds of millions of dollars of TV ads between now and the midterms showing the mug shots of illegal aliens who trafficked, abused, assaulted, raped and murdered little girls and boys. Show the parents of children who were murdered, assaulted or abused telling their tragic stories…and thanking President Trump and ICE for arresting these monsters.

This is Epstein times millions.

Prove it with “Show and Tell.” Show the monsters. Show the parents of rape and murder victims. Call it “The Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” Put the stories front and center, 24/7 from now until the midterms, in front of the American people.

Make the case that we are deporting millions of Epsteins who want to abuse, assault, rape, murder and destroy your children with drugs.

Be aggressive. Take the offensive. Create the momentum- while you work on exploding the economy and making our jobs, GDP and retirement accounts great again. This is what American voters care about. The economy and the crimes of illegals. Tie it all to Epstein.

And pass that damn SAVE Act this week- by any and all means necessary.

Prove you’re the greatest dealmaker in history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “WAR Zone presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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