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Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47
The Air Force said Boeing's F-47 will fly by the end of President Trump's administration.
Child care, teaching positions safe from DOD civilian hiring freeze
Some key positions in military quality-of-life programs are exempt from the department's hiring freeze.
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Another judge issues temporary ban on Trump’s removal of trans troops
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US Navy reiterates social media limits for sailors and Marines
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One of last surviving Tuskegee Airmen criticizes Trump’s DEI purge
“I’ll tell him, ‘You’re a racist,’" Tuskegee Airman Col. James H. Harvey III said of the president's efforts to purge federal diversity programs.
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Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47
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Child care, teaching positions safe from DOD civilian hiring freeze
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