WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at top U.S. military academies during the 2020-2021 academic year, a Pentagon report released on Thursday said, reaching their highest levels since data started to be collected in 2005. Sexual assault and harassment in the U.S. military is largely underreported, according to the military itself, and the Pentagon’s handling of it has come under renewed scrutiny. This year President Joe Biden signed an executive order to make sexual harassment an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In December, lawmakers p…