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With Eisenhower renaming, Army’s 100+ years honoring Confederates ends

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FORT EISENHOWER, Ga. — When this installation’s former namesake invaded Maryland, the U.S. Army shot him five times.

Despite receiving five bullets at Antietam in 1862 — and three additional wounds in other battles — as he rose from captain to major general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, former slaveowner John Brown Gordon survived to become the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia.

As a member of the U.S. Senate, Gordon helped negotiate the end of Reconstruction in 1877, which rehabilitated the white Southern elite and allowed a new era of racial oppression to emerge. A two-term governor of Georgia, Gordon was also the first commander of the United Confederate Veterans.

But in a Friday morning ceremony just outside of Augusta, the Army eschewed Gordon’s legacy in favor of that of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the post’s new namesake. Eisenhower helped lead the destruction of Nazi Germany as a five-star general in World War II, and oversaw key racial integration milestones later as president. In 1957, Eisenhower deployed the 101st Airborne Division to Arkansas and federalized the state’s National Guard when the governor attempted to block nine Black students from attending Little Rock Central High School.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth spoke of Eisenhower’s achievements in a speech accompanying the ceremony, which members of the former president’s family attended.

Friday’s renaming marks the final such installation-level move for the Army, culminating a nearly three-year process that began when Congress’ fiscal 2021 defense policy bill established the bipartisan Naming Commission to rename the military’s places and objects that honored Confederates. Four members of the commission attended the final redesignation at Eisenhower.

Wormuth’s remarks also acknowledged how the renaming process emerged from the “unrest and significant division in our country” that followed racial justice protests sparked by the 2020 death of George Floyd. But she celebrated how the new namesakes “unquestionably represent” what the Army wants to see from its future soldiers and leaders.

Four members of the Naming Commission — from left to right: businessman and former…

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PM Defensive Cyber Operations Transitions to Army’s PEO IEW&S; Brig. Gen. Ed Barker Quoted

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The Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic, Warfare and Sensors is building up the U.S. Army’s cyber capabilities with the addition of Project Manager Defensive Cyber Operations.

With the transition, PEO IEW&S is integrating into its portfolio PM DCO’s two key programs: Cyber Platforms and Systems and Cyber Analytics and Detection, the service branch said Thursday.

CPS facilitates the procurement and delivery of cybersecurity tools and related platforms to the armed forces and CAD offers capabilities that enable warfighters to analyze and detect internal and external cyberthreats to the Army.

“The days of the Army being a Kinetic only force are gone. Our ability to operate in multiple domains has become paramount with none more important than mastering the cyber warfare arena,” said Brig. Gen. Ed Barker, PEO for IEW&S.

Tinubu and Nigerian Army’s glorious era – The Sun Nigeria

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It is becoming all too glaring that President Bola Tinubu is determined to turn around the fortunes of the Nigerian military for the better, in particular its most dominant force, the Nigerian Army.

In doing so, however, he must take copious notes from the different periods that can be termed as the Nigerian Army’s glorious eras.  The President should disregard the naysayers and pay full regard to physical achievements that have helped in shaping the army to the strong institution it has become today.

According to defence.gov.ng, “the history of the Nigerian Army dates to 1863, when Lt. Glover of the Royal Navy selected 18 indigenes from the northern part of the country and organized them into a local force, known as the ‘Glover Hausas’. The small force was used by Glover as governor of Lagos to mount punitive expedition in the Lagos hinterland and to protect British trade routes around Lagos. In 1865, the ‘Glover Hausa’ became a regular force with the name ‘Hausa Constabulary’. It performed both police and military duties for the Lagos colonial government. It later became ‘Lagos Constabulary’.

“On incorporation into the West Africa Frontier Force (WAFF) in 1901, it became ‘Lagos Battalion’. In addition to this force, the British government included the Royal Niger Company (RNC) Constabulary Force in Northern Nigeria.”

But narrowing this down to our contemporary history as a nation, no matter what anyone might say, the reality is that the era when General Tukur Yusufu Buratai held sway as Army Chief is the most glorious, given the unprecedented challenges of the time and the achievements made.

A well-researched piece published by ireporteronline.com, entitled “Promoting Professionalism: Major Reorganization and Modernization Under General Buratai’s Tenure,” captures that era as follows:

Preceding his appointment as the Chief of Army Staff by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, the military was losing its officers and men in large numbers. Thus, Buratai’s drive was to improve on the military’s operational achievementsWithin three months of his appointment, Buratai verified his leadership capability by…

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Hacking the Army’s tech talent problem

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Army Spc. Majid Lowe didn’t know anything about the Army Software Factory until a superior in his infantry unit brought it to his attention. “He came in one day and said I was wasting my time…and told me that I needed to apply or I was going to be very unhappy,” Lowe said.

His journey to become part of the Army Software Factory’s first cohort wasn’t straightforward. His career started with a stint as a cybersecurity specialist. “I did network audits,” Lowe told FCW. “I would go to the client [and] I would run some scans and try to break some things and [say]: ‘Hey, here’s what I got into. Here’s what I didn’t get into.’ And then I would leave. It wasn’t the most fulfilling job, but again it afforded me a lot of free time because the job didn’t take a whole lot of time, so that was great.”

In 2017, he went on a six-month motorcycle camping trip with his father, who was in the Marine Corps. Lowe originally intended to join the Army’s Special Forces, but an injury sidelined those dreams, and after his father’s death, he decided to enlist as an infantryman. 

“In early 2018, I lost my dad, and when that happened, I realized I don’t want to have regrets when my time comes to meet whatever maker we might have,” Lowe said. 

Because of his background in cybersecurity and his experience as a junior enlisted infantryman, Lowe came into the software factory with ideas for bringing automation into daily operations, such as scheduling and deconflicting Army activities.

Finding hidden tech talent

Lt. Col. Vito Errico, co-director of the Army Software Factory, told FCW that he believes there is “mislabeled or underutilized, hidden tech talent already inside an organization of about 485,000 people. We’ve got combat medics who are completely self-taught in fields of platform engineering, but…the recruiter pushed them toward more traditional Army disciplines…. And so if you take all of those what I would call tech misfits and sort of put them in one place and organize them and resource them properly, we think you could do something pretty magical.”

The software factory is now training its second cohort of in-house “tech misfits.” Co-Director Maj. Jason Zuniga said: “Over the past year, it’s been…

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