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New executive order mandates prioritizing climate change considerations throughout entire federal government. Enrique Saenz January 29, 2021 President Joe Biden has signed executive orders drawing the entire federal government into the fight against climate change. The executive orders and directives task the government with taking on the climate crisis as a national security issue, with each level of government working to reduce climate change impacts while inve...

By   Theresa Hitchens on January 28, 2021 at 4:31 PM Gen. James Dickinson UPDATED TO INCLUDE LINK TO THE  VISION DOCUMENT. WASHINGTON: In his new Commander’s Vision, the head of Space Command says leading the fight to prevent adversaries from disabling or destroying US space assets is his new focus. “The intended audience is both internal and external,” Army Gen. James Dickinson told me in an interview yesterday. “Internally, the objective is to set the stage for SPACECOM personnel ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Russia’s recent mass-scale cyber intelligence operation, targeting multiple government agencies, corporations and think tanks, was a catastrophic event. The Russians compromised vital U.S. infrastructure, defense and technology industries, and critical government agencies, such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Energy and Treasury. The attackers exhibited highly sophisticated tradecraft, exceptional operational stealth, and extreme patience and determi...

Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, or NSWC IHD, isn’t known for their expansive runways; this Navy command that sits on the banks of the Potomac River does not even have a single aircraft. But that doesn’t mean the United States Air Force contingent connected to the command isn’t getting things done. In fact, it’s just the opposite. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division at NSWC IHD was recently recogn...

25 Members that deployed with the 94th Fighter Squadron returned to Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, from a rapid deployment in support of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility Dec. 19, 2020. The 94th FS practiced Agile Combat Employment, dispersing U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors manned with small maintenance support teams to various locations throughout the Pacific. While on location, they practiced hot-pit refueling from a C-130J Super Hercules and integrated w...

Throughout my career I often found myself “captured” in a 15-minute meeting that went on for an hour. The problem wasn’t that the content of the meeting wasn’t important, rather that all that needed to be said and heard was done in the first quarter hour. The extension of the discussion was generally summed up by the expression, “everything that needed to be said was said in the first 15 minutes….it just hadn’t been said by everyone in attendance”. My personal rule was to pass o...

Branches. we will have our own representative, it will have its own representative. a joint chief of staff. its a big deal. something that people thought could be done. very big component in our defense and frankly our offense. >> its one way the trump administration is trying to ensure u.s. dominance and space. earlier this year the white house stood up a new combatant command within the military called the u.s. space command. they also announced plans to return american astronauts to the moon ...

Trump pretended to launch a new space fighting agency, not the space force. >> were gathered here in the rose garden to establish the united states space command. its a big deal, as the newest combatant command, space com will despend americas vital interests in space, the next war fighting domain. i think thats pretty obvious to everybody. its all about space. >> yes, its obvious that the space command is all about space. the space command is not a new thing. weve had one since it was establish...

Donald trump has been obsessed as launchinging a space fourth to fight our future wars in space against enemies and foreign galactic. but whatever showtime original movie that gave him this idea must have left out, the little complication that a president cant just create a brand-new branch of the military out of thin air. it would require, among other things congressional authorization and approval which is lets say not likely. so today we had a little science fiction in the rose garden as trum...

The storm looks like it could be a very, very big one indeed. mike will be going. i just spoke to president duda of poland and expressed my warmest wishes and the wishes of the american people. our highest priority is the safety and security of the people in the path of the hurricane and i will be rescheduling my trip to poland in the near future. were gathered here in the rose garden to establish the united states space command. its a big deal. as the newest combatant command, spacecom will def...