Navy Pilots Face Second Low Promotion Year

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The Navy promoted fewer than 60 percent of its available aviation lieutenants, for a second year, reports Navy Times. Some of these officers, facing an abrupt career ending, are complaining, officials are defending higher standards.

Small, lethal drones made in Pakistan are hitting their targets, reports the Wall Street Journal, adding Pakistan to the few nations to use unmanned automated vehicles in combat.

FCW reports that MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – can fit the bill for the massive training needed in cybersecurity and data analysis.  The need in the federal government has reached Dakota State University, which hosted last week a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee with a focus on cybersecurity training.

Unknowingly, a UK sub snagged the nets and dragged a fishing trawler 18 miles in the Irish Sea, the crew escaped but the trawler is in bad shape, reports The Guardian.

Reuters reports, Italy’s F-35 completed its inaugural flight this week, the first F-35 flight outside the US.

Gizmodo posts a BAE time lapse video how a section of Britain’s second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier was tossed and towed to Rosyth Dockyard from the Glasgow dock where it was built.

Congress will question the EPA this week on how an EPA cleanup team triggered the release of 3 million gallons of rust-colored sludge from the inactive Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, reports The Washington Times.

Ben Kuroki, the only Japanese American known to have flown over Japan during WWII has died at 98, reports Military.com.