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Every Top U.S. Military Commander But the Marine Corps, Coast Guard Guys Now in Quarantine

All but one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in quarantine after the vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Monday, CNN reports. The Joint Chiefs of Staff is composed of the chiefs of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and National Guard Bureau,…

Health Tom McKay Oct 6

Pentagon Got $1 Billion to Fight Coronavirus, Bought Drones, Jet Parts, and Body Armor Instead: Report

The Pentagon has spent the $1 billion it received through the CARES Act on personal protective equipment, medical gear, and other emergency response supplies to support the nation’s teetering healthcare system. Just kidding, it spent it on fighter jets and body armor. Mask boring; loud thing go boom. Per the Washington Post, the Defense Department…

Politics Tom McKay Sep 22

‘Stars and Stripes’ Ordered to Stop Printing

USA Today reports that in a recent, previously unpublicized memo, the Pentagon’s acting director of Defense Media Activity, Col. Paul Haverstick (Army), ordered the publisher of Stars and Stripes to present a plan to discontinue its print publication by September 15. “The last newspaper publication (in all forms) will be September 30, 2020,” Haverstick wrote,…

Tech News Dell Cameron Sep 4

AI Murder Machine Kicks Air Force Pilot’s Ass in DARPA’s Simulated Dogfight Contest

Anyone remember the 2005 sci-fi movie Stealth? As far as I can remember, it involves a secret, artificially intelligent U.S. Air Force fighter plane that rebels against its creators when it is struck by lightning. It was not very good. Regardless, the U.S. military is now one step closer to its dream of unleashing an…

Tech News Tom McKay Aug 21

Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Laws

FBI, USAF Investigating if Military Helicopter Shot at in Virginia Was Targeted or Hit by Random Gunfire

Someone opened fire on a U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter while it was flying in Virginia around noon on Monday, injuring one of the two pilots on board, an Air Force official told CNN on Wednesday. Per CNN, the Air Force and the FBI are looking for the shooter and attempting to determine whether…

Crime Tom McKay Aug 12

U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Plotting to Attack His Own Unit With Neo-Nazi Satanists

A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with plotting an attack on his own unit in coordination with the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a somewhat obscure white supremacist and Satanist group. According to indictment documents filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and available on the Department…

Crime Tom McKay Jun 22

The U.S. Space Force Is Losing a Trademark Battle With Netflix’s Space Force

The real Space Force may be going down in flames against the fictional Space Force: According to the Hollywood Reporter, the newly founded military branch appears to be losing a trademark battle with the Netflix comedy show of the same name. Netflix “has outmaneuvered the U.S. government to secure trademark rights to ‘Space Force’ in…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Jun 8

Photos: Thousands Peacefully March in D.C. in Response to Police Crackdown on Protests

A massive crowd assembled outside the White House on Tuesday, one day after authorities used jaw-dropping force there to clear one of the many peaceful protests against systemic police brutality and racism triggered by the May 25 police killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd. On Monday, U.S. Park Police, Secret Service personnel, and members of…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 2

Top-Secret Space Plane Set to Launch on Not-So-Secret Science Mission

The Pentagon’s X-37B space plane will be returning to low Earth orbit later this month. But unlike previous operations, the U.S. military is sharing details about this mission and what the mysterious vehicle will be doing. The sixth mission of the U.S. Department of Defense’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will involve a satellite deployment and…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky May 8

Space Force to Get the Hell Off of Earth

The U.S. Space Force is scheduled to launch its first mission to space in a two-hour window beginning at 2:57 p.m. ET on Thursday from Cape Canaveral, sending a communications satellite into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Per the Orlando Sentinel, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite onboard (AEHF-6) is the…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Mar 26

Julian Assange Lawyers to Argue Trump’s New Intel Chief Sought Shady Extradition Deal

Defense lawyers for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder facing possible extradition to the U.S. from the UK on 18 charges related to his leaks of U.S. military and security secrets, plan to argue they have evidence new acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell abused his power to interfere in the case on behalf of…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Feb 25

Amazon Wins Court Injunction, Halting Work on $10 Billion JEDI Contract It Lost to Microsoft

A federal judge just put the brakes on a major military contract after Amazon argued it only lost out to rival Microsoft because the president wanted to “screw” CEO Jeff Bezos. This injunction marks the latest development in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project’s ongoing saga. The contract—an up to $10 billion purchase order…

Commerce Alyse Stanley Feb 13

Report: Suckplane Still Sucks, Can’t Even Shoot Straight

The F-35, the next-generation fighter plane that the U.S. government is planning on dropping $1.5 trillion on at the same time it’s planning on slashing health care and kicking the disabled off Social Security, still sucks shit and can’t even shoot straight, according to a report in Bloomberg. Bloomberg says that a recent report by…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 30

Pentagon Says 34 Troops Treated for Traumatic Brain Injury After Trump Downplays It as ‘Headaches’

The White House initially minimized the consequences of retaliatory Iranian missile strikes that hit joint U.S.-Iraqi bases in Iraq on January 8 in response to Donald Trump’s reckless decision to assassinate a senior Iranian official. But last week, news broke that at least 11 U.S. troops had actually been treated for traumatic brain injury (TBI).…

Health Tom McKay Jan 24

Former Google Exec Says He Was Forced Out for Opposing Company’s Pivot to Evil

A onetime top Google executive, former head of international relations Ross LaJeunesse, is now publicly alleging that the company abandoned its “Don’t be evil” ethos because it was more interested in chasing “bigger profits and an even higher stock price.” LaJeunesse, who is now running for Senate as a Democrat in Maine, is one of…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 2

Defense Department, Army Units Post Glossy Photo of Nazi War Criminal to Facebook

Today in extremely bad decisions: The Department of Defense as well as the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and XVIII Airborne Corps uploaded the same glossy, artificially colorized headshot of reviled war criminal and Waffen-SS officer Joachim Peiper to Facebook on Wednesday, the Daily Beast reported. The posts were ostensibly part of a series commemorating…

Tech News Tom McKay Dec 17

Amazon Says It Lost $10 Billion Military Contract Because Trump Wanted to ‘Screw’ Jeff Bezos

Amazon thinks it lost a military cloud computing contract worth $10 billion to rival Microsoft because our vendetta-addled president wanted to personally “screw” CEO Jeff Bezos, court documents show. Per the New York Times, Amazon wrote in a federal court complaint unsealed on Monday that Pentagon officials reviewed outdated Amazon submissions for the Joint Enterprise…

Commerce Tom McKay Dec 9

National Security Commission Warns Pentagon of Falling Hopelessly Behind in the AI Arms Race

An interim report compiled by a national security panel warns the U.S. government of falling too far behind China and Russia in the AI arms race, while calling for new investments to foster innovation. Released yesterday, the November interim report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) advises the U.S. government to get…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky Nov 6

Oracle Document Claiming an Amazon ‘Conspiracy’ to Win Military Contract Makes It to Trump’s Desk

Aides to Donald Trump presented him with a document identical to one created by a top Washington lobbyist for cloud-computing giant Oracle, Kenneth Glueck, implying that competitor Amazon is only a favored contender for a major contract with the U.S. military due to a far-ranging “conspiracy” orchestrated by Jeff Bezos, CNN reported on Saturday. According…

Commerce Tom McKay Jul 27

Report: Senators Are Suddenly Really Interested in UFOs

Three U.S. senators received a classified briefing on reported Navy encounters with unidentified flying objects, Politico reported on Wednesday, including vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Mark Warner. “Several current and former officials with direct knowledge” of the briefings told Politico that the Capitol Hill briefing follows numerous others involving members of Congress…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jun 20

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Every Top U.S. Military Commander But the Marine Corps, Coast Guard Guys Now in Quarantine

Pentagon Got $1 Billion to Fight Coronavirus, Bought Drones, Jet Parts, and Body Armor Instead: Report

‘Stars and Stripes’ Ordered to Stop Printing

AI Murder Machine Kicks Air Force Pilot’s Ass in DARPA’s Simulated Dogfight Contest

FBI, USAF Investigating if Military Helicopter Shot at in Virginia Was Targeted or Hit by Random Gunfire

U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Plotting to Attack His Own Unit With Neo-Nazi Satanists

The U.S. Space Force Is Losing a Trademark Battle With Netflix’s Space Force

Photos: Thousands Peacefully March in D.C. in Response to Police Crackdown on Protests

Top-Secret Space Plane Set to Launch on Not-So-Secret Science Mission

Space Force to Get the Hell Off of Earth

Julian Assange Lawyers to Argue Trump’s New Intel Chief Sought Shady Extradition Deal

Amazon Wins Court Injunction, Halting Work on $10 Billion JEDI Contract It Lost to Microsoft

Report: Suckplane Still Sucks, Can’t Even Shoot Straight

Pentagon Says 34 Troops Treated for Traumatic Brain Injury After Trump Downplays It as ‘Headaches’

Former Google Exec Says He Was Forced Out for Opposing Company’s Pivot to Evil

Defense Department, Army Units Post Glossy Photo of Nazi War Criminal to Facebook

Amazon Says It Lost $10 Billion Military Contract Because Trump Wanted to ‘Screw’ Jeff Bezos

National Security Commission Warns Pentagon of Falling Hopelessly Behind in the AI Arms Race

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