MANILA, Philippines (Oct. 24, 2025) — U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Southeast Asia and service members with Armed Forces of the Philippines recently completed bilateral training focused on improving communication and interoperability using Tactical Assault Kits.

Soldiers deployed throughout the United States to support community responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have a 24-hour help desk

U.S. and Philippines Army soldiers work in the Joint Operations Center during the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center-Exportable (JPMRC-X) exercise on Fort Magsaysay, Philippines, 31 May 2024. This iteration of JPMRC-X marks the first deployment to the Philippines, which will enable and assist the Philippines Army and the Armed Forces of the Philippines in building combat training center locations within the Philippines.

Increasing situational awareness in the daily activities of the US Border Guard (US Customs and Border Protection) is now to be one of the priorities of changes in the equipment of local officers.

On April 24, Ms. Katie Arrington, performing the duties of the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO), signed a memo titled "Accelerating Secure Software," which establishes the Software Fast Track (SWFT) Initiative for the Department. This effort is aligned with Secretary Hegseth's guidance (Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality, March 6, 2025) and will reform the way the Department acquires, tests, and authorizes secure software.

-Mexico border in the San Diego sector, Calif, Feb. 24, 2026. The ATAK assists service members in navigating using GPS and geospatial map data overlaid with real-time situational awareness of ongoing events. U.S. Northern Command is working side-by-side with the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection within narrowly defined authorities to provide unique military capabilities to protect the territorial integrity of the U.S. southern border.

A password history policy is enforced, where the same password cannot be reused for the past 24 password changes. In the event of ten invalid or failed logon attempts, the account will become locked for 15 minutes. The account will remain locked for this duration or until unlocked by an administrator. As an additional level of protection, all user accounts that have not had their password changed after 91 days will automatically be disabled in the system. This policy is intended to flush the dormant accounts out of all services and will also address the issue of subcontractor personnel leaving companies and not notifying TAK TMB of their departure. In addition, a firewall review has been implemented in which all severs used on the project, in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GOV Cloud, will have the Security Group (firewall) rules reviewed every 30 days. All rules set up in AWS will be annotated with a comment describing the re...