Posted by Java Joe on December 22, 2020 · Leave a Comment
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has criticized the Pentagon for the abrupt halt in meetings and information sharing. “A failure to work together can have consequences well beyond January,” a spokesman for the team said.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Biden transition team, Bowhead, Christopher Miller, Lockheed Martin, NSA, Russian hack, South China Sea, Steve Mnuchin, Taiwan Strait, US Africa Command, US Cyber Command, USS Mustin
Posted by Java Joe on December 21, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy has its sailors, the Army has soldiers. There are Marines and airman. The US Space Force troops will be called “guardians.”
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Posted by Java Joe on December 17, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The 325th Security Forces Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is the first US military unit to adopt the robotic quadrupeds for regular operations.
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Posted by Java Joe on December 16, 2020 · Leave a Comment
Military observers see little spending or strategic changes at the Pentagon with a Biden White House and Republicans maintaining sway over the Senate.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Biodesign, CAPT Carey DuVal, Corvias, Dan Crenshaw, Ft. Meade, Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright, Newt Gingrich, Robert Wilkie, Steny Hoyer, Westlake Village
Posted by Java Joe on December 15, 2020 · Leave a Comment
All federal civilian executive branch agencies have been directed to search their networks for indications they were compromised after the US Commerce Department was hacked. The hackers entered US systems through updates by the software company that also provides services to the White House, the Pentagon, and NASA.
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Posted by Java Joe on December 14, 2020 · Leave a Comment
GEN Gustave Perna, Operation Warp Speed COO, says the first round of COVID-19 vaccines should start arriving at sites across the nation as early as today, Dec. 13.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Army Navy football, Artemis Team, covid vaccine, DCS Corp., Electoral College, Fort Meade, Gustave Perna, Kayla Barron, Pacific Architects, Peter Franchot, shipbuilding, USS Theodore Roosevelt, Virgin Galactic
Posted by Java Joe on December 10, 2020 · Leave a Comment
“We should override,″ GOP hawk Rep. Liz Cheney said of the president’s threat to veto the $740 billion defense authorization bill that passed the House with a 335-78 vote, sufficient to override a veto. President Trump objects to renaming bases honoring Confederate generals and demands repeal of liability protection for social media companies.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Brent Gaut, BRIG GEN Wanda N. Williams, CAPT Amy Bauernschmidt, Colin Day, Craig Sicola, David Pollard, Dr. James Phillips, Gavin Duff, GEN Lloyd Austin III, Heidi Stirrup, Kellyanne Conway, Lin Raiwest, Rep. Liz Cheney, Stephe Miller, Virginia Military Institute
Posted by Java Joe on December 9, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot showed he had the “right stuff” in 1947, becoming the first person to fly faster than sound.
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Posted by Java Joe on December 8, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The US approved $175 billion in arms sales to foreign nations in fiscal 2020. That is a 2.8% increase over the prior fiscal year’s $170 billion in sales.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags AIRWorks, Alywn Cashe, arms sales, aviation safety, Christmas Star, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, drug testing policy, Medal of Honor, Project Avenger, veteran unemployment, VH-92 Marine One
Posted by Java Joe on December 7, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The coronavirus pandemic will keep Pearl Harbor survivors from attending the 79th Commemorative Ceremony remembering those killed in the attack that launched the US into World War II. The ceremony today, Dec. 7, will be closed to the public, but will be live streamed starting at approximately 7:45 am.
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