War Becomes More Complicated
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Defense Systems reports on last month’s Cyber Guard exercise and the challenges to involving all levels of government and private industry controlled infrastructure as well.
The Washington Post reports on the Pentagon’s stepped-up consideration of hybrid war and quotes a National Defense University professor saying, “America’s view of war is overly simplified.”
As the US develops a space strategy, some policy makers address the US military’s reliance upon space systems, and the nations poised to exploit that reliance, reports Defense Systems.
The former US attorney general says government leaker Edward Snowden might return to the US in the future without jail time, reports The Hill.
Multiple agencies found no evidence for a shot reportedly fired Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, reports The Hill.
The Motley Fool does the math on super carriers versus 100 Joint High Speed Vehicles.
Foreign Policy.com reports on a welcome drone bases in Somalia operated by the same Joint Special Operations folks who got Osama bin Laden.
Farmers are hungry for drones, reports the Star Tribune, and the new FAA rules are ready to let them fly.
It’s not bad enough that up to 32 million federal workers’ data files were hacked through the Office of Personnel Management, now hackers, posing as the OPM, are going after them again, reports Defense Systems.
The Navy and Marine Corps made it harder to discharge transgender military members, reports Military.com.
Following two cargo delivery missions failures, Russia finally delivers the goods to the International Space Station, reports Military.com.
DefSec Ash Carter moves his chief of staff over to the Army and appoints a new one, announced DoD News.
Two Republican US Senators from landlocked states have drawn the ire of labor unions for proposals to expand governors’ authority to intervene in port labor disputes and increase tracking by the federal government, reports The Hill.
Trying to figure out a holiday to Greece? The Guardian keeps reader’s posted minute by minute of the changing fortunes of the island nation’s efforts to stay afloat.
Oceaneering International Inc., Chesapeake, Virginia, was awarded an $18,601,702 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-6403) for the dry deck shelter (DDS) modernization detailed design effort. Modernization efforts include extending the existing DDS by 50-inches and providing remote operations for the hangar outer door, remotely operated power handling system (i.e., track and cradle) and remotely operated hangar capability. These upgrades will allow for larger payload deployment from a Virginia-class submarine. Work will be performed in Chesapeake, Virginia (52 percent), Hanover, Maryland (20 percent), Groton, Connecticut (12 percent), Newport News, Virginia (12 percent), and Shirley, New York (4 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2017. Fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $3,250,000 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.
