Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a sweeping overhaul of professional military education, removing Senior Service College fellowships and other officer programs at Ivy League schools and select research universities. The memo named Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins among institutions no longer eligible for specific military fellowships. The decision targets partnerships that have long supplied officers with graduate education and technical collaboration. The memo cited a need to "sharpen our leaders’ warfighting capabilities" and cited ideological concerns; Hegseth also listed possible replacement partners including Liberty University and George Mason. The change will disrupt pipelines for officer graduate training, curtail research collaborations in AI and space at places like Carnegie Mellon, and force the services to rebid or redesign professional education tracks. Senior Service College fellowships are year‑long programs that place senior officers in civilian universities for strategic education and research partnerships. Units that rely on these fellowships will need immediate contingency plans to preserve continuing-education slots, classified research access, and talent pipelines.