US Sanctions Russia’s Arms Export Agency
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US sanctions Russian arms export agency and affiliated firms, including the maker of the famed MiG aircraft, for sales to or from Iran, North Korea or Syria of goods, services or technology listed on multilateral export control lists, reports Defense News.
The Department of Defense Education Activity awarded Norfolk Public Schools a five-year, $1.5 million federal grant to support children of military families and to the Chesapeake, VA, school district, a five-year $1.45 million grant to expand instructional opportunities in STEM, reports PilotOnline.
The FAA approves a DC start-up company, Measure, to fly 324 drones. The company focuses on agriculture, oil and gas, insurance, and other industries where aerial photography and other data is a valuable commodity, reports Fortune.
A Boeing portable laser at an undisclosed, “tactical” range, disables a flying UAV in 15 seconds, reports Defense Tech. Here’s Boeing’s video.
Responding to the growth in robotic surveillance, spy planes will be phased out starting in 2018, but the U-2 spyplanes, first built in the beginning of the Cold War, are flying more hours than they have since the Cold War, reports Military.com.
The Navy stands up a Special Warfare Unit Four at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, Fla., southwest of Miami, SEAPOWER reports from an internal directive.
The US awarded a $133.3 million contract to Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC to provide one of three years of ID protection services to 21.5 million OPM hack victims, reports GovExec. Exercising additional option years brings the contract to $329.8 million. Naval Sea Systems Command led the effort to select the vendor.
The Defense Health Agency warns Tricare beneficiaries of a mail scam designed to steal money from their banks, reports Military Times.
The Navy’s long-suffering Littoral Combat Ship, can’t shake its senatorial or Naval critics, reports Breaking Defense, and development of its important mine-hunting system still isn’t going so well.
NAVSEA, Navy Regional Maintenance, and other Navy organizations have the first draft of a workload stabilization plan to balance ship maintenance with operational needs, reports USNI. The recent example of the imbalance in the fleet’s maintenance schedule is apparent as the extended maintenance required on the Eisenhower continues to reverberate through the fleet.
Perhaps some British designers with Starpoint have the answer for the future warship, with their just released concept art for Dreadnought 2050, reports Defense One. Developed from an open-thought experiment at the informal request of the U.K. Ministry of Defense, the concept includes back-up silent engines if the hydrogen fusion power fails, a floodable dock for launching Royal Marines and swimming drones, a deck for launching armed aerial drones, and 3D printers to make more as needed.
A 40-square-mile natural gas field has been found in the Mediterranean Sea off the northern coast of Egypt, reports CNN.
Two men with a deathbed confession and radar confirmation may have found one of the legendary Nazi “gold trains” in an abandoned tunnel near Ksiaz Castle, in southwestern Poland. Local legend says the train contains gold, precious stones, art and weapons, and the two men have asked for 10 percent for their information, reports Military.com.
The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, is being awarded a $23,245,869 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-04-C-3146) for testing of the high-altitude antisubmarine warfare weapons capability on the P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (50 percent); and Seattle, Washington (50 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2017. Fiscal 2014 and 2015 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $12,937,511 will be obligated at time of award, $2,537,511 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
