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Army builds out its new space operations branch

More than 600 soldiers already reclassified to the new 40D Tactical Space Operations Specialist MOS, establishing the branch’s first permanent enlisted force.

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FILE - In this photo provided by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Feb. 23, 2021. (Brittany E. N. Murphy/U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command via AP, File)

Space Force finishes transferring in first 250 part-time guardians

The Space Force also plans to let current active-duty guardians apply for part-time status, but hasn’t said when that might become an option.

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Space Force Col. Andrew S. Menschner, deputy commander of Space Systems Command, administers the oath of office to the final cohort of Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard members transferring to the Space Force at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., Oct. 1, 2026. The ceremony marked the completion of a historic transition pipeline that integrated 250 Reserve and Guard personnel into the Space Force from July to October. (Van Ha/Space Force)

MCP Is Not Just Another API Standard

Ask most engineers what MCP is and you’ll get the same answer: a way to plug tools into an LLM. Fair enough, as far as it goes. But that description treats MCP like plumbing, and after months building MCP-based integrations for large enterprise platforms, I don’t think plumbing is the right metaphor. Plumbing moves water […]

Architecting for the Knowledge You Can’t Capture

Every knowledge program seems to begin with the same request. A senior engineer is leaving in six weeks, and someone asks her to document the process she’s carried for years. She returns a clean flowchart of the happy path. The drawing is accurate and may even be elegant. It leaves out the thresholds she watches, […]

Beyond Navier–Stokes: Who Controls Scientific Discovery?

Is the current furore in mathematics the canary in the coalmine for experimental science and knowledge work? This post was originally published in Vanishing Gradients on September 11, 2026. It has been updated to address the subsequent declaration by 25 Fields Medalists and the debate about AI, mathematical progress, and research incentives. Science without understanding? […]

Operating Mode as Runtime State: A Contract for Enterprise

During a service incident, a customer-remediation workflow is moved onto an emergency route because the situation is critical and the team needs a fast resolution. Approvals are shortened, a priority queue is opened, and an on-call agent is cleared to use an alternate procedure until the service recovers. The incident ends, but the route stays […]

When Content Is Free, Trust Is the Product

There is more technical content available today than any human being could read in a thousand lifetimes. Every topic has a dozen YouTube videos, three Substack posts, a GitHub repo, and a Reddit thread, most created in the last six months and, in many cases, technically accurate. And yet most of the professionals I talk […]
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