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Through T-REX, DoD seeks to fill technology gaps

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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.”

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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PAYBACK TIME: US Department of War Planning Retribution for Failing Allies, Including Suspending Spain From the Alliance and ‘Reviewing’ UK’s Claims to the Falkland Islands

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A digital artwork featuring two men engaged in discussion, with a prominent image of Donald Trump in the background, creating a dramatic political atmosphere.A digital artwork featuring two men engaged in discussion, with a prominent image of Donald Trump in the background, creating a dramatic political atmosphere.Failing allies, leftist-Globalists Sanchez (Spain) and Starmer (UK) are about to taste retribution from Trump – Wiki Commons

Failing allies under pressure.

As we have been reporting here on TGP, US President Donald J. Trump is hardly the man to forgive and forget a slight or a betrayal.

And it’s been reported that Trump and his team have compiled a ‘naughty list’ of failing allies, and that some for of payback was expected against these countries.

And today, it arises that the Pentagon is exploring ways to punish NATO countries that failed to support the US during the Iran conflict – including drastic measures like suspending Spain from the alliance.

This was first reported by Reuters, but was picked up by a multitude of outlets, primarily in the UK, where there is widespread concern over the planned US ‘review’ of the British claim to the Falkland Islands.

Daily Mail reported:

“The policy options are detailed in an email expressing frustration at some allies’ perceived reluctance or refusal to grant Washington access, basing and overflight (ABO) rights for the Iran war. The email stated that ABO is ‘just the absolute baseline for NATO,’ according to the official, who added that the options were circulating at high levels in the Pentagon.

The memo also includes an option to consider reassessing US diplomatic support for longstanding European ‘imperial possessions,’ such as the Falkland Islands near Argentina.”

Needless to say, the response by the Euro-Globalists was immediate.

On the one hand, NATO states there is no provision to oust Spain, while the UK reaffirms its sovereignty over the South American Islands.

Read more:

NATO and the Bar Fight: A Bar Tab Europe Expects America To Pay Forever

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AXIS OF ECONOMIC LOSERS: Japan and Germany’s Socialist “Stakeholder” Takeover Turned Economic Superpowers Into Stagnant Ghost Towns – And the Left Wants This Poison for America

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Image depicting tattered flags of Germany and Japan with the text "The Axis of Losers," symbolizing the Axis Powers of World War II.Image depicting tattered flags of Germany and Japan with the text "The Axis of Losers," symbolizing the Axis Powers of World War II.Japan and Germany are dying from the same disease: socialism.

Back in the late 1980s and early ’90s, the so-called “experts,” the mainstream media, and every smug Ivy League economist couldn’t stop drooling over Japan. “Japan as Number One!” they screamed. Books flew off the shelves. Newsweek and Time covers warned of an “economic Pearl Harbor.”

Paul Harvey wailed about Japan buying up America with our own money. Paul Kennedy’s bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers basically coronated the Land of the Rising Sun as the next global hegemon.

The keiretsu system, the MITI bureaucrats, the lifetime employment model — it was all supposed to be the future. America was finished. The Japanese were going to own us.

Fast-forward to 2025-2026. Japan is a cautionary tale on life support. GDP per capita (PPP) hovers around a pathetic $55,000–$56,000 — crushed by America’s nearly $94,000. After taxes and cost of living? It’s even worse. The “Lost Decades” aren’t a glitch — they’re the feature. Zombie companies, endless stagnation, and a demographic death spiral made infinitely worse by policies that treat businesses like government welfare offices rather than wealth-creation machines.

The mainstream press will blame everything except the real culprit: the deliberate socialization of the corporation.

Keiretsu

In Japan, it’s the infamous keiretsu system — giant corporate clans glued together by cross-shareholdings and a house bank that plays mommy to every failing division. Lifetime employment. Seniority-based pay and promotions instead of merit. Company unions that treat every layoff like a war crime. The goal isn’t profit — heaven forbid — it’s “harmony” and keeping everyone employed forever. Result? Total paralysis. You can’t fire the dead weight. You can’t reallocate capital to what actually works. You can’t innovate like a maniac because revolution is “disruptive.”

When the 1990s bubble popped, they didn’t clean house — they dragged toxic debt around like a ball and chain for decades.

And don’t look now, but Germany — once the envy of Europe — is right there with them in the loser’s club. Years of zero or outright negative growth. Factories shuttering. The proud German export machine is coughing up blood. The vaunted “Rhine model” has turned into a slow-motion industrial suicide.

Mitbestimmung

Because Germany took the socialization even further with the notorious Mitbestimmung — “co-determination.” In big companies, workers and union reps literally occupy half the seats on the supervisory board. They get veto power over layoffs, plant closings, relocations, and major restructurings. It’s not capitalism anymore — it’s corporate communism with better engineering. The boardroom isn’t deciding how to crush competitors and reward shareholders; it’s negotiating how to protect today’s insiders at the expense of tomorrow’s growth.

Add in the deranged Energiewende — the green energy fantasy that tripled electricity costs — and you have the perfect storm. German industry is literally powering down while the rest of the world races ahead.

BMW/Tesla

Want proof? Look at BMW versus Tesla. BMW sells about 2.5 million vehicles a year. Tesla sells around 1.5 million. BMW’s market cap? A measly ~$55 billion. Tesla’s? Over twenty times higher. One company is run by visionaries who embrace the future and reward risk-takers. The other is run like a German labor ministry with a side hustle in cars.

This is what happens when you let “stakeholders” — code for unions, bureaucrats, and professional grievance-mongers — hijack the boardroom. The enterprise stops being a profit machine that lifts everyone through growth and becomes a social-work project designed to protect yesterday’s workers at the expense of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, young people, and innovators.

It’s the exact same philosophy the American left has been trying to smuggle into U.S. boardrooms for years: ESG scores, “stakeholder capitalism,” DEI mandates, union power grabs, and the constant war on shareholders. They call it compassionate. It’s actually economic castration. Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” — the engine of real progress — gets sacrificed on the altar of Karl Marx’s class warfare dressed up in a suit and tie.

America’s model is raw, unapologetic, and brutally effective: The company exists to make money for its owners. Management executes or gets fired. You restructure, you pivot, you kill failing divisions without crying about “humanity.” It looks ugly to the European and Japanese salon socialists. It also creates the iPhones, the SpaceX rockets, the shale revolution, and the stock market that funds retirements for millions.

The Axis of Losers

Japan and Germany didn’t fail because of demographics or one bad energy policy. They failed because they turned their greatest companies into paralyzed extensions of the welfare state. The “Axis of Losers” chose preservation over progress — and they’re paying for it in lost decades and lost futures.

America still has a choice. We can reject this European-Japanese corporate socialism, tell the unions and the stakeholder grifters to pound sand, and keep rewarding the risk-takers and wealth-creators who actually build the future.

Or we can follow the Axis of Losers straight into the economic graveyard. The choice should be obvious — but the radical left never learns. They just rebrand failure as “equity” and keep selling the same poison. Don’t let them.

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WATCH: Mother of Feral NYC Teen Who Body-Slammed and Stomped 15-Year-Old Girl’s Head DEFENDS Violent Son, Claims Victim ‘Bullied’ Him After She Refused to Give Him Her Phone Number

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Woman speaking to the media in a hallway while a man is seen attacking another person on the street in a separate scene.

Woman speaking to the media in a hallway while a man is seen attacking another person on the street in a separate scene.

A horrifying video from New York has sparked nationwide outrage after a 14-year-old boy was caught on camera brutally body-slamming a 15-year-old girl to the concrete and then stomping on her head, all because she refused to give him her phone number.

Now, the boy’s mother is publicly defending her son, claiming the victim was “bullying” him and that his savage and animalistic attack was somehow justified because he is a “humble” Christian.

The shocking attack occurred around 3:30 p.m. on Monday at the corner of East 107th Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem, just after school let out.

The 15-year-old girl, a ninth-grade student-athlete at East Harlem Scholars Academy Charter School heading to squash practice, was confronted by the 14-year-old masked suspect, who had reportedly been harassing her for weeks.

In the disturbing footage, the girl is seen trying to walk away and yelling, “Get the f–k away from me.”

The boy follows her, grabs her from behind, lifts her off the ground, slams her to the pavement, and then stomps directly on her head.

His friends can be heard laughing and egging him on as the girl lies motionless on the ground.

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The girl suffered a concussion and was rushed to Harlem Hospital.

The 14-year-old suspect was arrested on Wednesday and appeared in Manhattan Family Court, where he was ordered held in custody by the Division of Youth and Family Justice.

Because both parties are minors, his name has not been publicly released.

In an interview captured outside the courthouse, the boy’s mother, Selma Allen, issued a wild defense of her violent son.

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Allen claimed the 15-year-old girl had been bullying him in school, sending messages, and even pushing him down, and that this somehow justified the vicious attack.

“She was being a bully to him, that’s it,” Allen told reporters.

“He’s been complaining about her. I bring it to the principal’s attention but he don’t address it. The way my son is being bullied, he doesn’t want to go to school.”

She claimed her son is a “quiet” boy who “doesn’t provoke nobody,” and described him as a “humble Christian.”

“He don’t provoke nobody. But if you provoke him, he will lash out.”

Allen insisted her son had proof on WhatsApp and Instagram and repeatedly shifted blame onto the victim while downplaying the savage stomp on the girl’s head.

None of the reporters asked the obvious question: if the girl was truly bullying him, why was he aggressively demanding her phone number and following her?

The victim’s mother, Lucinda Arroyo, spoke out Thursday in an interview with the New York Post. She said her daughter had been dealing with weeks of harassment from the boy and said it was a “miracle” her daughter survived.

“She’s very upset that her whole life has been completely flipped upside down right now,” Arroyo said. “She’s known him as someone who’s bad news for a while.”

“This is not even bullying, this is outright assault — and he could have killed her,” she asserted.

Her daughter was left with a concussion, bleeding, a potential brain injury, crushing headaches and a twisted neck, and will require ongoing physical therapy.

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