SDFM The Business of Defense
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No evidence that U.S drones were shot down in the Persian Gulf. That\'s the word from the Pentagon. But Iran is claiming that it took out two Western drones in the Gulf. Reuters reports, the last time a U.S. drone crashed in the Gulf was in 2009 after a mechanical failure. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan says there are \"no recent reports that would corroborate what the Revolutionary Guard said about unmanned aerial vehicles.\"
January 04, 2011 -
Teleworkers are learning exactly what citizens need.
January 03, 2011 -
January 3rd and January 5th, 2011 Ms. Washington is the Senior Policy Advisor for Community Initiatives
December 30, 2010 -
Pieces of the suicide bomber\'s car were strewn across the street. Three police cars and a handful of civilian cars and shops in the area were destroyed by the blast in Kabul Monday. In a statement, President Hamid Karzi condemned the midday attack. But the incident and others like it highlight the wobbly state of security in Afghanistan as that weak nation tries to build a security force and stomp out insurgents hiding in Afghanistan\'s rugged terrain and porous borders.
December 28, 2010 -
The last policeman standing or in this case policewoman has gone down in a strip of border towns in the Juarez Valley of Mexico. Gunmen stormed into the home of Erika Gándara in the town of Guadalupe about 6 o\'clock am. two days before Christmas and kidnapped her. The 28 year ood Gándara, was the only police officer in the municipality of Guadalupe which is about two miles from the Texas border. All the rest of the police, the men, had fled the town, giving in to the powerful drug cartels and their henchmen. No word on her condition.
December 28, 2010 -
December 27th and December 29th, 2010 Hear from a varied group of leaders, innovators, practitioners, and thinkers, who offer models to follow, provide insights that infuse theory to practice, and pave the way to shaping the business of government. Our guests will include Vice Admiral Jack Dorsett, Dr. Bobby Braun, Dr. David McClure, Richard Spires, Clarence Carter, and Russ Mills as they discuss public management challenges and innovations.
December 27, 2010 -
Federal Aviation Administration safety inspectors at the North Pole certified Santa One, the reindeer-powered sleigh piloted by Santa Claus, prior to its 2010 Christmas Eve delivery mission. Santa One - they report - is outfitted with new satellite-based NextGen technology, that allows Santa to deliver more toys to more children with improved safety and efficiency. Rudolph\'s nose has been outfitted with avionics that can broadcast Santa One\'s position to air traffic controllers around the world with improved accuracy. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt says Santa\'s cockpit display is improved to help improve his situational awareness. Even as energy-efficient as the reindeer-powered sleigh already is, officials say NextGen technologies have further reduced Santa One\'s carbon hoofprint. Shorter, faster routings mean the reindeer consume less hay.
December 27, 2010 -
The department of the Interior has approved the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in Nevada. It\'s the ninth large-scale solar facility started as part of the administration\'s initiative to encourage the development of renewable energy on U.S. public lands. The plant will use concentrated solar thermal \"power tower\" technology to contribute 485,000 megawatt hours of renewable energy annually to the Nevada grid. It\'s part of an effort -across the administration - to advance a renewable energy economy. The project is sited on approximately 22-hundred acres administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The Bureau has approved six renewable energy projects on public lands in Nevada - three solar, two geothermal and one wind - along with a long-distance transmission line that will deliver a variety of energy sources to consumers across the western United States.
December 27, 2010 -
Self-proclaimed \"technogeeks\" at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, after determining the nature of the cybersecurity threat, have created programs to tackle them and, most importantly they say, surprise would-be cyber crooks. Officials at DARPA say the agency\'s sole mission since its inception in 1958 has been to prevent technological surprises. Two of the agency\'s recent cybersecurity programs, called CRASH and PROCEED, were created for that purpose. CRASH - the Clean-slate Design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts program - seeks to build new computer systems that resist cyberattacks. After successful attacks they learn from the attack, adapt and repair themselves. The program evolved from a workshop DARPA held earlier this year that pulled together experts in cybersecurity and operating-system as well as infectious-disease biologists.
December 27, 2010 -
Who\'s behind blasts at embassies across Europe. Package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean Embassies and were found at others. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but authorities appeared to discount domestic anarchists or protesters. Rome\'s Mayor Gianni Alemanno \"It\'s a wave of terrorism against embassies, something much more worrisome than a single attack,\" Last month, suspected Greek radical anarchists sent fourteen mail bombs to foreign embassies in Athens.
December 27, 2010 -
U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) Enid Doggett AFGE Communications Director Philip Dray AFGE 10th District Women\'s Coordinator Author of \"There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America\"
December 22, 2010 -
December 22nd, 2010 With cybersecurity a top priority for the President, listen to a discussion on a campaign designed to create public awareness and engage the public in the importance of cybersecurity.
December 22, 2010 -
A bomb exploded at a downtown bus station in Kenya\'s capital late yesterday as passengers boarded a bus, killing at least one person and wounding more than 39 others, Police say the person who was killed was carrying a piece of luggage that contained the bomb. Most of the wounded were Ugandans traveling home for Christmas, Al-Shabab, Somalia\'s most dangerous militant group, has threatened to carry out more attacks on Uganda and Burundi, the two nations that contribute troops to the 8,000-strong African Union force in Mogadishu.
December 21, 2010 -
December 20th and December 22nd, 2010 Ms. Coleman is the Chief Information Officer of the U.S General Services Administration
December 20, 2010 -
Slower-growing trees, dying trees, forest fires, insect infestation, and big changes in where various tree species are dominant are part of a forecast being suggested for southwestern U.S. forests. That\'s if temperature and aridity rise as predicted by the U.S. Geological Survey and other federal researchers. Southwestern forests, they say, may experience all of these changes since they are particularly sensitive to warmer temperatures and increased dryness. They report mountain forests across the Southwest are already experiencing forest die-offs and rapid shifts in the types of trees that live there. From watershed protection and timber supplies to recreation, the researchers warn that such changes in Southwest forest vegetation could have significant effects on a wide range of goods and services.
December 20, 2010