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Pressure grows on NASA to rethink its decision to award SpaceX the only contract for a moon lander.
as it reports progress in the administration’s first 100 days. A new space acquisition agency has a head start, but the bureaucracy threatens to slow it down, says a Pentagon veteran running a new tech institute.
Unspent border wall funds will be rerouted back to military construction projects April 30 President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall in San Luis, Ariz. The Defense Department is canceling border projects and rerouting funds back into DoD activities. (Evan Vucci/AP) The Pentagon announced Friday that it would cancel all of the border construction projects funded by the siphoning of money destined to to build military schools, training facilities and more. More than 100 projects were put on hold in late 2019 after then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper signed off on rerouting $3.6 billion from the Defense Department’s military construction account. What’s left will go back into those deferred projects, according to a Pentagon release.
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According to the Indonesian Defense Minister, Prabowo Subianto wanted to get several F-35s from the US. But Defense Secretary Mark Esper instead had the newest Fighting Falcon F-16 Viper as an option.
F-16 Viper, Lockheed-Martin s best-seller for emerging air forces
Indonesia is one of those Southeast Asian countries affected by China s aggressive attitude. Subianto sees the purchase of the F-35 stealth fighter as a major move to advance Indonesia s air power. The Viper is an upgrade over the recent Fighting Falcons used by many air forces, reported Aerotime.
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West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence Comments
NIAMI, NIGER (Africa is a Country) One striking feature of US military involvement in West Africa is the absence of an observable strategic vision for a desired end state. Nominally, US presence in the region’s multilayered conflicts revolves around building “security cooperation” with state partners to improve counterterrorism capabilities, ostensibly providing protection to communities that states cannot. Concurrently, the US military is typically the prime diplomatic entity for high-level bilateral engagements. The result is that the US military is propping up the public authority of weak states, albeit in an ad hoc fashion that lurches from crisis to crisis.Regardless of the reasons for US presence, there is hardly any deep public support for these operations; about 60% of US citizens do not view these kinds of conflicts as a security threat
Betrayer Mark Esper is FIRED!
President Trump fired the disloyal Defense Secretary Mark Esper and put Christopher Miller in his position.
Pentagon Chief Esper was rumored to have prepared a letter of resignation, according to three current defense officials, NBC News reported. President Trump beat him to it, if the rumor is true.
Esper publicly criticized and countered Donald Trump’s actions to attempt to stop the riots in DC. he condemned the President’s threats of using military namely the National Guard.
In opposition to President Trump’s wishes, Esper is helping members of Congress draft legislation that will strip names of Confederate leaders from military bases.