The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency revealed this week that it tapped Orbital Insight to provide commercial data assets for tracking illegal fishing and other illicit maritime activities in the Asia-Pacific region, via the nascent Project Aegir.
This award to the California-based geospatial analytics company — worth up to $2 million in pilot funding — is historic as it marks the result of NGA’s first-ever commercial solutions opening (CSO) solicitation.
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When you think of Air Force jobs, you might picture brave fighter pilots soaring through the skies. Or maybe you think of skilled flight instructors guiding the next generation of aviators. But did you know that the Air Force also has a host of lesser-known jobs that are just as exciting and fulfilling? From jet-setting executives to in-flight refuelers, let’s explore some of the most interesting jobs you may not have heard of.
While some Patriot systems have been provided to Ukraine, determining unit composition is difficult due to national security limitations.
Fuzzy media with unclear strings puts out information that may have some truth and at the same time may be purveyors of Pro-Chinese story lines.
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There has been a climax for the time being of the stand off between the Philippines and China on the Scarborough and Second Thomas Shoals on the West Upper side of the Philippines.
This story of how China was able to electronically overwhelm a U.S. led, 29 nation alliance has started to make the rounds. Be vigilant on checking the source. I can’t figure out who CMGM works for.
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The U.S.
John Grady, USNI News
The High North remains the “shortest and least defended threat sector” to the U.S., the deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command said Tuesday.
WP
A career Pentagon official who had a romantic relationship with a married four-star admiral could become a key government witness against him, according to his lawyer and court filings…
M.W. Campbell & D. Stoker, RCDefense
The dilemma facing the U.S.
Stephen B. Young, RealClearDefense
Vance could be just another “Scranton Joe,” ascending the slippery pole, one who only “struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
On April 2, 2024, Ukraine’s military struck several buildings in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan region. The strike demonstrated Ukraine’s steadily improving ability to hold targets deep inside Russia at risk. But it was also a stark reminder of just how far Iranian-Russian defense cooperation has come since 2022: As of last year, Russia has indigenized the production of Iranian-designed Shahed drones at Alabuga — practicing a degree of cooperation with Tehran that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago.