TEARLINE
General Allen plans to submit his force level recommendations for post-surge Afghanistan after Election Day.
US drones struck yet again in Yemen’s eastern province of Hadramout yesterday. This was the fourth strike in Yemen in eight days.
The Obama administration has called on Iraq to require Iranian planes transiting its airspace en route to Syria to land for inspections to prove they are not carrying weapons to Syrian military forces.
One of Chairman King’s subcommittee’s is holding a hearing on the EMP threat.
AROUND THE WORLD
Hundreds of residents have fled the southern port of Kismayo after the Kenyan Navy shelled the town in preparation for a ground operation to capture it. Kismayo is the main remaining stronghold of the Shabab, a rebel group linked to Al Qaeda.
ON THE FIGHT
Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa and the crew of the High-Speed Vessel Swift was paid a visit recently by the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Ray Mabus, during his visit with the African Partnership Station in Cameroon.
TURNOVER
ManTech has promoted Eric Eifert to senior vice president of its Cyber Defense Solutions business unit. Eifert joined the company in 2001 as a computer forensics engineer and made significant contributions that helped to establish a more advanced forensics and security research capability. Prior to joining ManTech, Eifert was a Special Agent and Computer Crime Investigator for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
The United States Military Academy Combating Terrorism Center’s new director is Major Bryan Price. Bryan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, is a former aviator and current FA59 strategist who has served in a variety of command and staff positions in operational assignments to include deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Vice Admiral Michael Connor will relieve Vice Admiral John Richardson this Friday as commander of Submarine Forces/Submarine Force Atlantic/Allied Submarine Command at Norfolk Naval Station.
ON SECRECY – OR LACK THEREOF
More than 30 news outlets and media organizations lodged an official protest Tuesday against secrecy in the court martial of Private Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accusing of leaking hundreds of thousands of military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
CONTRACT WATCH
Commonwealth Technology has acquired Black Oak Technology Group, in an effort to beef up its cybersecurity capabilities. Financial terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed, but CTI specializes in technology vulnerability, computer network defense and software reverse-engineering, in addition to its specialized hardware and mission support services. This is CTI’s third acquisition in two years as it expands via mergers and acquisitions.
Robert Caruso is a veteran of the United States Navy, and has worked for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Business Transformation Agency and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
