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• Terrific: North Korea And Iran Grab US Military Intel In Back-To-Back Hacking Attacks

  
  Mere Rhetoric — Authority: 586
  Perfect. Just absolutely perfect:South Koreas military said Friday it was investigating a hacking attack that netted secret defense plans with the United States and may have been carried out by North Korea. The suspected hacking occurred late last month when a South Korean officer failed to remove a USB device when he ...
  8 hours ago

• Defense Bill Clears Senate Hurdle

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The Senate voted early Friday to force final action on a Pentagon spending measure as Democrats broke a G.O.P. attempt to use the military money to stall action on the health care overhaul.
  15 hours ago

• All Military Installations to Aid in Voter Registration

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The Department of Defense said this week that it would require every military installation around the world to help troops register to vote, helping eliminate obstacles to voting by military personnel.
  18 hours ago

• A Hack of the Drones: Insurgents Spy on Spy Planes With $26 Software

  
  80beats — Authority: 632
  The U.S. military does not think much of Iraqi militants’ technological capabilities. How else to explain the fact that their Predator drone surveillance planes used unencrypted links to send down to their military operators? The lack of encryption means that the drones’ data is less secure than most home ...
  1 day ago

• Bills Pass on Debt and War Funds

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The House narrowly approved a short-term, $290 billion increase in federal borrowing power, setting the stage for a major fight over national fiscal policy in 2010.
  1 day ago

• Survey: Armed Forces ‘Strong, Healthy, Ready’

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 447
  Members of the armed forces are strong, healthy and ready to accomplish their mission, a survey of their health-related behaviors has revealed. Defense Department officials today announced the final results of 2008’s survey of health-related behaviors among active duty military personnel. Active duty Coast Guard ...
  1 day ago

• McCaskill On Afghan War Contractors: Were Competing Against Ourselves

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said today that the military may be paying Afghan contractors so much that they are dissuaded from joining the countrys army or police force, dealing a blow to the American strategy of building up local forces. We reported earlier this week that as many as 56,000 new contractors will be ...
  1 day ago

• Crime Lab Casts Net Ahead Of Cyber Criminals

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 447
  Public fascination with television’s “CSI” forensic detectives and with the virtual reality depicted in the “Matrix” films may be partly responsible for the high level of interest garnered by a Defense Department contest to solve cyber crimes, according to AFPS’ Judith Snyderman. The Digital Forensics ...
  2 days ago

• Gov Quinn/Sen Durbin praise decision re: Thomson

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 15, 2009Presidential memo re: ThomsonLetter from defense team to Gov QuinnNote that the alleged 3000 jobs created are not all going to be local hires and a large percentage will be going to the military for security purposes.Couldn’t find a comment from Rep Kirk as yet. Also noteworthy, Sen Roland Burris ...
  2 days ago

• DOD: Obamas Afghan Surge Will Rely Heavily On Private Contractors

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  Private contractors will make up at least half of the total military workforce in Afghanistan going forward, according to Defense Department officials cited in a new congressional study. As President Obamas escalation of the war in Afghanistan unfolds, the number of contractors will likely jump by between 16,000 and ...
  3 days ago

• Names of the Dead

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The Department of Defense has identified 4,360 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans over the past few days:.
  3 days ago

• What is Strategic Communication?

  
  MountainRunner — Authority: 132
  What is “strategic communication”? To many, it is synonymous with public diplomacy, but are they? Is it that strategic communication is simply engagement by the Defense Department and public diplomacy is engagement by the State Department? To many in the Defense community, strategic communication encompasses ...
  4 days ago

• What is Strategic Communication? - MountainRunner.us

  
  MountainRunner — Authority: 132
  What is “strategic communication”? To many, it is synonymous with public diplomacy, but are they? Is it that strategic communication is simply engagement by the Defense Department and public diplomacy is engagement by the State Department? To many in the Defense community, strategic communication encompasses ...
  4 days ago

• Blackwater’s Participation in CIA Raids Raises Critical Questions

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 745
  The news on Friday that Blackwater Worldwide (now known as Xe Services) participated in clandestine CIA operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that included targeted killings, kidnapping and “extraordinary renditions” raised more questions than it answered. After all, we already knew that the U.S. government has ...
  4 days ago

• Federal Internship for Spouses, Military Spouses Only

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 524
  President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 on October 28, 2009 and it had become Public Law No: 111-84. Sec. 564 of the Act is a pilot program to secure internships for military spouses with Federal agencies. (a) Cost-reimbursement Agreements With Federal Agencies- The ...
  4 days ago

• The Purple History of Intelink

  
  Shepherd's Pi — Authority: 477
  When I first began talking with DIA CIO Mike Pflueger and Deputy CIO Mark Greer in the fall of 2003 about the work I’d be doing with them inside government, most of the ideas were big ones: let’s re-architect the DoDIIS enterprise, let’s find and deploy revolutionary new analytical software. One of our ...
  5 days ago

• Custody Battles for Soldiers

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  According to the Defense Department, single parents make up about 8 percent of the military. Some of those parents have been deployed overseas. As Michelle Miller reports, many face a new battle upon returning home.
  5 days ago

• Undercover Grrl Band Techno Rave

  
  Shepherd's Pi — Authority: 477
  Friday I had an interesting meeting with Dawn Meyerriecks , who has just begun her new role as the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Acquisition and Technology. (Read the DNI’s statement on her appointment here in pdf , her bio here , and some reaction – all positive – here and here .) ...
  6 days ago

• Graphically, why the situation in Afghanistan is so dire

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  if this doesnt tell the story, i dont know what does... USAID and Department of Defense Overall Spending in Afghanistan you wanna talk about an imbalance...? this visual representation of u.s. development vs. defense spending in afghanistan, to me at least, makes it staggeringly clear why afghanistan is such ...
  1 week ago

• National Briefing | Washington: Defense Department Held in Contempt

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  A federal judge ruled the Defense Department in contempt of court for not videotaping the testimony of a Guantánamo Bay detainee.
  1 week ago

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