County Gives State $1M Toward UMd Classroom
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St. Mary’s County commissioners tossed $1 million in the pot to further bolster efforts to keep on track the $3.8 million construction of a Univ. of Maryland research classroom at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, reports The Bay Net. The state let slip the UMd Classroom funding in its FY16 budget and legislators and other officials are scrambling to get it reinstated. Leading the effort was the Lexington Park Commissioner, Todd Morgan, who nevertheless failed to garner the necessary support to bolster state improvements needed at the Route 5 and Great Mills Road intersection in Great Mills, MD.
The Senate voted 98-2 to open debate on funding the Department of Homeland Security through September after a bipartisan deal removed riders to stop President Barack Obama’s immigration policies, Politico reported. But the House does not look so congenial to the split, reports The Hill.
Iraqi security forces struck a $73.5 million deal with Charleston, SC, company Critical Solutions International and its partner DCD Protected Mobility, for an undisclosed number of Husky 2G mine detection systems, reports Defense News. The US has also been shipping other military hardware to Iraq, reports Bloomberg.
A video by the Sydney Morning Herald discusses the cost and value of the JSF helmet, and demonstrates some of its optics capabilities that provide ‘situational awareness’. Each pilot is fitted individually, the display calibrated within two millimeters of the center of each pilots’ pupils.
The Hill reports on a Pew survey finding 47 percent of respondents favor using US troops against ISIS, an 8 percent hike from October. Nearly half of the respondents opposed ground troops, 49 percent, which was a 6-percentage-point drop from four months ago. The White House and Congress are currently wrestling with the president’s request to use military force against ISIS.
The next war will be conducted by robots, the CBS News’ affiliate in Palm Springs, CA, cites why and how this has come to pass.
As the bankruptcy and sale of RadioShack continues, pivotal players agree to separate the trademark name from the stories themselves. Bids for the name open at $20 million, reports Bloomberg.
