Biz to be removed from naughty list following out-of-court settlement The Pentagon has agreed it will no longer label Xiaomi a Communist Chinese military company after the smartphone maker sued Uncle Sam to overturn the designation.…
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Jake Johnson, staff writer"The Pentagon remains the only agency in the federal government that cannot pass an independent audit. Not acceptable."
Two top Trump administration officials testified Wednesday that President Donald Trump never contacted them on Jan. 6 as rioters overran the Capitol and engaged in brutal combat with police officers.
Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and...
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The Pentagon is testing AI controlled drones. What this could mean for war and its victims in the future.
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By Mandy Smithberger | –
( Tomdispatch.com) – The first 100 days of President Joe Biden’s administration have come and gone. While somewhat exaggerated, that milestone is normally considered the honeymoon period for any new...
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citing U.S. Defense Secretary Christopher Miller removes his face mask during a meeting with Lithuania?s Defense Minister Raimundas Karobli at the Pentagon in nearby Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 13, 2020.
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Ex-Pentagon...
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Mandy Smithberger"One-hundred days later and it’s remarkable how little has changed when it comes to pouring money into this country’s vast military infrastructure and the wars, ongoing or imagined, that accompany it."
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The head of the Defense Digital Service (dubbed "SWAT Team of Nerds" by its own members) has succeeded in expanding the scope of his department's operations beyond simply solving IT problems for the Pentagon. However, this required him to cut...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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The Pentagon may pull its $10 billion cloud-computing JEDI defense contract with Microsoft, the WSJ reported.
The contract has been swamped with litigation...
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The future of warfare might involve advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that would have the ability and authority to assess situations and engage enemies without having a human in control of every robot or drone involved in the...
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Amazon launched a lawsuit against the US Department of Defence in 2019 after it awarded a major contract to software giant Microsoft for a new common cloud data system for all service arms. Last month, the Pentagon acknowledged that the legal battle...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A US Coast Guard cutter on Monday fired dozens of warning shots to fend off multiple Iranian attack boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
A pair of military experts recently penned an article with a simple warning to the Pentagon: winter is coming. In this case, said winter is an artificial intelligence winter, and said AI winter is an artificial AI winter. To put it another way: the...
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The head of the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service will step down next month after more than two years that saw the “SWAT team of nerds” more than double in size as it took on new projects involving drone warfare, satellites and Covid-19...
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NATO Allies "Take Over" Black Sea For Military Exercises
Authored by Rick Rozoff via AntiWar.com,
The title is courtesy of the Hungary-based Transylvania Now news site. The Pentagon’s Special Operations Command Europe kicked off...
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Robert Farley
F-35, The Americas
Expensive fighters provide advanced military capability, but also provide jobs and investment across a broad swath of communities. The F-35 exemplifies this, and in fact, internationalized it.
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“Uncontrolled” and “rocket” are not two words you want to hear in the same sentence.
If you see anything unusual in the sky overhead this weekend, don’t stop to report a UFO to the Pentagon. Just run.Read Full Story
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Over the past several years, America’s special operations forces have been rocked by a string of scandals — drug trafficking, murder and multiple investigations involving war crimes. As the cultural chaos unfolded, top civilian Pentagon...
On 29 April, China launched the Long March 5B carrier rocket with the main module for its future orbital station. The US Air Force said earlier that it expected the core of the rocket to crash down in the Pacific Ocean by the end of the week.
On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Jamarl Thomas and Shane Stranahan talked with guests about Europe opening up, a Pentagon Inspector General report looking into UAPs, the ongoing protests in Colombia, and why real estate prices are shooting...
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