Posted by Java Joe on February 12, 2024 · Leave a Comment
The US State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about the identity or location of the leaders of the global ransomware gang Hive. Hive has extorted more than $100 million in ransom payments from hospitals, schools, financial firms, and critical infrastructure in the US since June 2021.
Posted by Java Joe on January 25, 2024 · Leave a Comment
A growing number of bipartisan lawmakers is questioning President Joe Biden’s legal authorities to conduct missile strikes on Yemen’s Houthis.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Al-Assad airbase, Christopher J. Chambers, DefSec Lloyd Austin, HMS Bangor, HMS Chiddingfold, Joni Ernst (R-IA), MacDill Air Force Base, Nathan G. Ingram, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
Posted by Java Joe on January 15, 2024 · Leave a Comment
A lawsuit against the US Navy regarding weapons testing on the Potomac River has been settled. The Navy will be required to obtain a Clean Water Act permit to minimize the pollution impacts from its weapons testing at Dahlgren, VA.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ADM Lisa Franchetti, Boeing 737, DefSec Lloyd Austin, F-25, F-35, Lockheed Martin, Navy SEALS, Navy surface fleet, NSWC Dahlgren, Potomac River test range, Taiwan, V-22 Osprey crash, VADM Brendan McLane
Posted by Java Joe on July 10, 2023 · Leave a Comment
US DefSec Lloyd Austin swore in new military recruits last week. As DoD marked the 50th anniversary of the country’s all-volunteer force, the armed services are struggling to meet recruitment goals.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AUKUS, BAE Systems, Blue Crabs, DefSec Lloyd Austin, E/A-18G Growlers, GCAP, Imagine One Technology, lightning strikes, Mobility Guardian, Nuke School, Royal Australian Navy
Posted by Java Joe on June 5, 2023 · Leave a Comment
A growing list of Republican leaders are sending their state National Guard soldiers or other state law enforcement officers to the US border with Mexico. Gov. Wes Moore (D) said last week that “Maryland’s not doing that. Right now, what Maryland is doing — Maryland is focusing on public safety here. Maryland is focusing on our schools here. Maryland is focusing on the myriad of challenges and the myriad of opportunities that we have here in the state of Maryland … .”
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Posted by Steny Hoyer on May 4, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer joined a bipartisan group of more than 20 of his congressional colleagues in writing to US DefSec Lloyd Austin in support of the University of Maryland-led Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Collaborative proposal to contribute to the Department of Defense’s Microelectronic Commons initiative.
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Posted by Java Joe on December 5, 2022 · Leave a Comment
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office filed a civil complaint Thursday in the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County against the St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commission over continued sewage overflows from its sanitary sewer system.
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Posted by Java Joe on September 12, 2022 · Leave a Comment
Don’t expect another span across Chesapeake Bay any time soon. Maryland Transportation Authority officials say they have four or five years to analyze alternatives and assess environmental impacts and only then, if the state gets federal approval and funding can design and construction begin.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Artemis I, Chesapeake Bay, DefSec Lloyd Austin, F-22, F-22 Raptor, Maryland Transportation Authority, McGill University, Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays, STATESEC Antony Blinken, USS Bonhomme Richard
Posted by Java Joe on August 9, 2022 · Leave a Comment
Defense revenues of the top 100 defense companies climbed for a sixth consecutive year. Fiscal 2021 defense revenue for the Top 100 list totaled $595 billion, up nearly 8% from last year.
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Posted by Java Joe on April 26, 2022 · Leave a Comment
The Navy is sifting through three options for its shipbuilding plans — only one gets to the goal of 355 ships.
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