March 28, 2024

Navy & Marines Bringing Help to the Caribbean

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Hurricane Matthew draws USS George Washington to the Caribbean, with V-22 Ospreys, MH-60 Seahawks aboard, and the amphibious transport dock Mesa Verde to provide disaster relief if needed, reports Navy Times.

We don’t believe we’re organized, trained, or equipped to meet the demands of a future operational contest against a peer competitor,” said Gen Robert B. Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, reports FCW out of the Association of the US Army conference in Washington. In large part because the US has remained on a war footing for 15 years without time to reflect or adapt to the current landscape which involves daily cyber combat.

White House rolls out armed drone declaration, more than 40 countries agree on the import and export of armed unmanned systems,  reports Defense News. The US State Department calls it the first step toward creating global norms for the weapon systems.

Defense Systems reports, the military’s shift toward open software seeks “a government-industry software standard” for affordable, innovative, and “rapid integration of portable capabilities across global defense programs,” according to the Open Group’s Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium which seeks to certify registered software to assure it meets the technical standard used by avionics systems.

The Navy is moving forward with  upgrades to shipboard electronic warfare systems with a $148.9 million contract award to Lockheed Martin for Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program, reports Defense Systems.

Three pioneers in the development of nanomachines made of moving molecules won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, reports The New York Times. How small can you make machinery? asks the Nobel citation. Molecular machines, the world’s smallest mechanical devices, may eventually be used to create new materials, sensors, and energy storage systems, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in announcing the prize.

Nanomaterials are also being used by the Army Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make the military a lot lighter, reports Defense Systems. For example, lighter aircraft could be faster, more agile, and require less fuel and or electronics carried, or worn, in the field, where lighter the better.

A BAH contractor to the NSA stole secret intelligence, reports CNN. Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials after searches of his home and property revealed hard-copy and digital files containing “highly classified information.”

Fires have now damaged at least three production and test copies of the F-35A, including the AF-4 test aircraft in 2011 and the AF-27 production aircraft in 2014, and last month a fire erupted in the aft end of an F-35A during the engine start sequence in Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, forcing the pilot to escape, reports Flight Global.

Guards and inmates are charged in widespread bribery and smuggling operation at Maryland’s largest prison, Eastern Correctional Institution, a 3,300-inmate, medium security facility in Somerset County. Inmates directed the highly lucrative operation from the inside using the recorded prison phone system and illegal cellphones to place orders and make direct payments to correctional officers through the online payment system, PayPal.

After war wounds and a long wait, a quadruple amputee gets new arms and a new life, reports The Washington Post.

The physical infrastructure of the Internet is more centralized that it would seem, reports Defense One, otherwise countries such as China, Russia, and Iran could not wield such control of online dissent.

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