In September there was a flurry of activity around the web about the DOD’s impending policy on the use of social networking services and web 2.0 in the military. There’s a good aggregate site on DOD SNS. And of course DOD has a “social media hub” on twitter and every place else.
It seems the DOD [...]
Walter Pincus at WaPo reports on the new “cyber-range” in the 2010 Defense budget. The “National Cyber Range” (yet to be created) would test the strength and vulnerabilities of government cyber systems against outside experts. DARPA is the owner of this test program now but is supposed to turn it over to another (to be [...]
According to a new GAO report, the cost of overseas contingency operations, better known as “war”, have risen obscenely since 9/11 (that’s what happens when you go from virtual peace-time to a “global war on terror”). According to GAO 09-791R,
DOD’s reported annual obligations for OCO have shown a steady increase from about $0.2 billion in [...]
Stars and Stripes stirs the pot with a story from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on a white supremacist website with members who claim to be in the military. Wired’s Danger Room picked the story up; comments on it range from “get used to free speech” to “military regs prohibit such participation” to my [...]
Reuters reports that the Pentagon’s new Cyber Command will probably be based at Ft. Meade, MD and headed by the National Security Agency Director, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander,
The head of the Cyber Command would also be the director of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which conducts electronic surveillance and communications interception.
But this new responsibility [...]
(F22A Raptor in the 94th Fighter Squadron – USAF)
The news item on “Guam Okinawa plus Washington Tokyo” blogspot, 5/30/09:
Four F-22A stealth fighters just arrived at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa from Langley Air Base in Virginia with eight more arriving today for a four-month deployment. These jets can avoid radar detection and go supersonic.
Langley [...]
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