THREATWATCH
The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization is partnering directly with elements of the Pakistani military to combat fertilizer bombs.
Saudi Arabia is supplying the Syrian rebels with firearms and equipment from Croatia.
Lawfare, on the way forward in a fight that can no longer be dictated or guided by the constraints of the Authorization of Use for Military Force.
ON THE FORCE
The C-17s at Manas Air Base’s Operating Location – Alpha are busy ferrying U.S. personnel back and forth, as well as lending an assist to the phased withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit have completed the multinational joint exercise Cobra Gold 2013. Participants from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps totaling more than 9,500 personnel worked together with service members from the Kingdom of Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Republic of Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia during the exercise.
POTOMAC TWO-STEP
Washington, D.C.’s mayor is attempting to steer the relocation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from Springfield, Virginia to Southeast DC.
ON TECH
Someone tacked a computer chip to the wing of a Predator, and failed to secure it, contributing to the drone eventually crashing.
ON SECRECY – OR LACK THEREOF
Pepperdine University’s Greg McNeal gives a comprehensive overview of the so-called kill list.
The Pentagon’s Inspector General is refusing to release the conclusions of the the probe into General Mike Allen, despite his impending retirement.
CONTRACT WATCH
SAIC is splintering itself, and one of those business units will be called Leidos. Tony Moraco, who heads SAIC’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance group, has been picked to head the services business and the realignment and rebranding is expected to be finished in 2014.
Blackbird Technologies is in the market for vulnerability research engineers.
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.
