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Hits and misses this week across Tampa Bay and Florida | Editorial Environmental mess, Tallahassee hypocrisy and more good news on the vaccine front     A view of a phosphogypsum stack, far, background, and water management at HRK Holdings’ property off Buckeye Road on March 30 in Palmetto, Manatee County, where wastewater is suspected to be leaking at the old Piney Point phosphate plant in Palmetto, records show. Florida environmental officials are allowing HRK Holdings to discharge...

Anduril buys tube-launched drone-developer Area-I 1 hour ago An Area-I Agile-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System, or ALTIUS, is launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, March 4, where the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center led a demonstration that highlighted the forward air launch of the ALTIUS. (Photo courtesy of Yuma Proving Ground) WASHINGTON — Anduril Industries, a venture-backed defense technology company, has ...

Share This: The Taliban Believe They Hold all the Cards With peace talks scheduled next month in Turkey, the Taliban are feeling flush. They are already claiming victory as the Afghan government and military are slowly collapsing. Taliban insurgents are slowly and inexorably taking small bases while encroaching more and more into cities with large populations.  The Taliban have never recognized the Afghan government which they have called a puppet government of the United States. So, if the U....

Qwake Technologies Awarded Air Force Contract to Adapt AR Solution for Smokejumpers and Special Operations News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - The US Air Force has tapped Qwake Technologies to adapt its augmented reality technology, C-THRU TM, to enhance C-THRU VISUAL COMMUNICATION ADAPTED FOR AIR FORCE MISSIONS Qwake Technologies has partnered with the Washington, DC-based start up company Rhea Space Activity (RSA) to  adapt Qwak...

Tennessee-based Barrett Firearms on Wednesday pulled down a big U.S. Army contract for new MK22 Advanced Sniper Rifles. The $49.9 million five-year firm-fixed-price contract announcement covers "procurement of Multi-Role Adaptive Rifle/MK22 Advanced Sniper Rifles, spare parts, accessories, tools, and conversion kits." The U.S. Special Operations Command in 2019 tapped Barrett to produce ASRs, as part of an effort to continue “development of enhanced capabilities to improve performance” ...

Pentagon Diversity Chief Reassigned During Probe of Post Comparing Trump to Hitler The Department of Defense diversity chief who compared former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler has been given a different assignment as his social media posts are probed. Richard Torres-Estrada, a former Virginia diversity official, was hired in March by U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) as its chief of diversity and inclusion. When made aware of the post comparing Trump to Hitler, and other posts...

Army inks $49.9M deal to buy 2,800 MK22 MRAD rifles from Barrett Firearms By (0) The Army has made a $49.9 million, five-year deal to buy MK22 Multi-role Adaptive Design rifles from Barrett Firearms. Photo courtesy U.S. Army April 1 (UPI) -- The Army announced this week that it has awarded a $49.9 million, five-year contract to Barrett Firearms to acquire about 2,800 MK22 Multi-role Adaptive Design, or MRAD, rifles. According to the Army, the MK22 is part of the Armys Precision Sniper Rifle p...

By Dan Parsons | April 1, 2021 Estimated reading time 7 minutes, 33 seconds. Two teams vying to build the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) are advancing to the second competitive demonstration phase of an ongoing effort to develop a suitable replacement for the UH-60 Black Hawk by 2030. Both Bell and a Sikorsky-Boeing team will enter Phase II of competitive demonstration and risk reduction (CD&RR) for FLRAA through two “other transaction authority” project agreem...

Meet Captain StarEagle: Space Force Swears In 1st Female Native American Intel Officer U.S. Space Force Capt. Haida StarEagle becomes emotional as her father Chief Samuel Little Fox, shaman of the Matinecock Tribe and all 13 tribes on Long Island, pins on her new occupational badge during her induction to the United States Space Force at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, March 12, 2021. (U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker) 1 Apr 2021 Space Force just welcomed its first female Native Am...

“The PLA likely seeks to use digital influence activities to support its overall Three Warfares concept and to undermine an adversary’s social cohesion, economy, morale and governance,” Mr. Sullivan told the House panel. Separately, the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint intelligence assessment as the hearing was proceeding Tuesday morning. The assessment concluded that Russia and Iran sought to influence the 2020 presidential election but that no foreig...