Aberdeen Proving Ground anticipates hosting an advanced planning briefing to industry in late April next year.
Monday, September 25, 2023
Monday, September 25, 2023
Jaspreet Gill was the senior technology reporter for Inside the Army until January 2022. She graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a master's degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism in 2019. Previously, she covered local upstate and central New York politics, community news and the 2018 midterm elections.
Aberdeen Proving Ground anticipates hosting an advanced planning briefing to industry in late April next year.
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