Report Finds US Navy Overworked
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Demand for naval forces exceeds the supply the US Navy can deliver, according to the report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the US Navy is overworked, has too few ships, and faces emerging global threats, says Military.com.
Successful autonomous and unmanned systems means teaming with humans, Defense Systems reports, complicating the already difficult teaming of machines and humans, collaboration with industry is required at the same time as the military is establishing the autonomous needs of its forces.
DefSec Ash Carter says, the US military is no longer driving technological innovations, reports Defense Systems, today the commercial technology sectors and other nations are innovating and the US military must adapt.
With Navy backing, a startup company is building the first commercial “waterborne” data center at a naval shipyard at Mare Island Naval Complex north of San Francisco, reports Defense Systems. The startup worked with the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and the Naval Postgraduate School to develop its data center prototype.
UCLA scientists have developed the first detailed injury simulation to show medics what to expect before they’re helping soldiers on the battlefield, reports Engadget. See the simulation here.
UPI reports, North Korea’s attempt to fire a missile from a submarine Saturday morning, failed, according to South Korean officials who say the weapon did not make it past the surface of the ocean.
A new Pew Research Center study showed that 65 percent of Americans say the news media has a negative effect on the way things are going in America, reports NBC.com, and some distrust fact-checkers more than the candidates.
“The irony is that policy journalism in Washington is thriving. It’s just not being written for you, and you’re probably never going to read it,” writes John Heltman for The Atlantic.com, describing the Washington news coverage shift to subscription-based trade publications brought on by the collapse of traditional journalism business models. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of newspapers with bureaus in Washington fell by more than half from the mid-1980s to 2008.
The Telegraph reports scientists are readying the process of injecting billions of immune cells back into the body to boost insulin production, preventing the need for daily injections for diabetes.
New York Times reports, Phizer, a pharmaceutical giant who wraps itself in the American flag while lobbying lawmakers, now proposes moving operations to Ireland, using a corporate inversion tax clause lawmakers have been unable to adjust. “Ironically, an inversion makes it easier for an American company to invest in the US and less likely that it will be encumbered by competitive tax disadvantages — or acquired by a foreign competitor,” says Sally Susman, Pfizer’s executive vice president.
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded $16,486,184 for cost-plus-fixed-fee task order 0218 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-11-G-0001) for production engineering support for the installation and integration of systems required for the F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G and electromagnetic aircraft launch system follow-on test and evaluation. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (75 percent); and St. Louis, Missouri (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 2017. Fiscal 2014 and 2015 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $15,730,273 are being obligated on this award, of which $3,211,023 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
