Governor Jodi Rell vowed Friday to pursue legal remedies. She said in a written statement that, as commander in chief of the state’s National Guard, she had not approved movement of the unit. Rell maintained, “I have not done that and I will not do that—period.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week released strategies meant to focus the Pentagon’s “alphabet soup” of innovation organizations and proliferate artificial intelligence—moves that experts say could provide the structure needed to make the military’s efforts to integrate and field new technology more effective.

