SDFM The Business of Defense
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Leo Bosner Former President, AFGE FEMA Local 4060 Jim Aldridge Secretary-Treasurer, AFGE Federal Law Enforcement Steering Committee Vincent DeMarco President, Maryland Citizens Health Initiative
August 26, 2010 -
Canadian authorities say they\'ve broken up an al Qaida terror plot. Two residents from Ottawa have been arrested after one of them was preparing to leave the country. Authorities are tight-lipped about the investigation, but they say the plot involved at least one suspect who had traveled to the tribal territories of Pakistan and Afghanistan. They also indicated the plot involved explosives. Canada is the only one of the major countries on Al Qaida\'s list that they have yet to successfully attack.
August 26, 2010 -
A failure by Navy air traffic controllers to follow standard procedures contributed to a midair collision that killed seven Coast Guard members and two Marines off Southern California last year, according to a Coast Guard report released Tuesday. The Associated Press says controllers at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, near San Diego, failed to notify the pilot of a Coast Guard C-130 plane that four Marine helicopters were in the area. The Marine flyers were also unaware of the Coast Guard plane\'s presence. The report said there is no single reason or person to blame for the crash on the night of Oct. 29, 2009. It made a series of recommendations to improve safety in the largely unregulated airspace.
August 25, 2010 -
You may remember the story of a pregnant Marine who was murdered at Camp Lejune in December of 2007. A jury on Monday convicted a former Marine of first-degree murder in the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Vandalia, Ohio, in December 2007. Cesar Laurean, 23, of Las Vegas faces life in prison without parole. He was also convicted of theft and fraud charges.
August 24, 2010 -
The Pentagon is warning for the first time about the Chinese military\'s use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks aimed at American companies and government agencies. DoD has issued a report says the People\'s Liberation Army, is using \"information warfare units\" to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks, and those units include civilian computer professionals.
August 23, 2010 -
August 23rd and 25th RITA\'s mission is to promote transportation research, solid analysis, and education across the different operating agencies within the USDOT.
August 23, 2010 -
All\'s quiet on the western front. Maybe a little too quiet for telework proponents.
August 23, 2010 -
Learn what transpired at the annual FDR conference. Aug. 20, 2010
August 19, 2010 -
Dwight Bowman AFGE 14th District National Vice President Armstrong Williams Political Commentator and Host, The Right Side TV Show Gary Chaison Author, \"Unions in America\"
August 19, 2010 -
The \"height of irresponsibility\". That what the Pentagon says about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange\'s decision to release another 15-thousand documents related to the war in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says \"there are very serious operational consequences. There are the names of a lot of Afghans who have worked with us and helped us in those documents.\" He added the documents contain a significant amount of information about U.S. tactics, techniques and procedures, including places where they are vulnerable.
August 16, 2010 -
Most telework debates focus on four basic points about teleworking. We hear both sides.
August 16, 2010 -
Marc Pearl, president & CEO of the Homeland Security & Defense Business Council, is this week\'s guest. Aug. 6, 2010
August 13, 2010 -
Polish authorities have extradited a man believed to be a Mossad agent to Germany, where he faces charges over a passport that was used in the slaying of a Hamas leader in Dubai earlier this year. The suspect, known as Uri Brodsky was handed over to German police at Warsaw\'s international airport. German prosecutors accuse him of illegally helping to procure a passport used in connection with the Jan. 19th slaying of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at a hotel in Dubai.
August 12, 2010 -
Terry Spencer Hesser Author, \"I Am a Teamster: A Short, Fiery Story of Regina V. Polk, Her Hats, Her Pets, Sweet Love, and the Modern-Day Labor Movement\" Heidi Shierholz Economist, Economic Policy Institute Reece Rushing Director of Government Reform, Center for American Progress
August 12, 2010 -
The Pentagon is going to sell about 200 Patriot missiles worth about $900 million to Kuwait. The goal is to build up anti-missile systems in the Persian Gulf. The Associated Press\'s Anne Flaherty writes, the initiative is aimed at defending Gulf allies against potential Iranian missile strikes and to signal to Tehran that any aggression would not go unanswered. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced Wednesday that it had notified Congress of the proposed sale. Congress could object but is not expected to do so.
August 12, 2010