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Lapse in Appropriations: The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30, 2025.
Military personnel will continue in normal duty status, without pay, until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in excepted will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status.
For more information please refer to the following link:

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4319360/fy26-lapse-of-appropriations-department-of-the-navy-resources-for-sailors-marin/
 

Monitoring the Network

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ram Francis, a data systems administrator with Headquarters Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, monitors network traffic and activity on Fort Pickett, Va., Feb. 6, 2022. Marine Corps Systems Command recently launched the Technical Management and Analysis Directorate in a drive to modernize the Marine Corps Enterprise Network. The MCEN is an interconnected “network of networks” that links service personnel, architecture, processes, physical and logical topology, and cyber operations.

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Photo by: Marine Corps Cpl. James Stanfield

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Location: Fort Pickett, Va.
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