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[faultfalha]

The sharp report is concise, leaving little room for interpretation. The United States is in trouble, and unless swift and substantive action is taken, they will fall hopelessly behind their rivals in the East. The very fabric of our society is at risk, as our reliance on technology continues to grow. This is a race we cannot afford to lose.

[stuartbramhall]

How Can We Go to War with China When Our Weapons Depend on Their Factories?

By Commander Salamander Back in March, Joshua Steinman made a simple request of us all: “If you pay attention to one tech twitter chart this week, I beg you, make it this one.” As Balaji let us know last month: “The report was issued by Arlington, VA-based Govini which was awarded a five-year $400 million contract from the Pentagon in 2019 to deliver data, analysis and insights into DoD…

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Sunday, August 18, 2024

Presidential candidates, polls, and the issues (APNORC.org) As Kamala Harris secures the Democratic nomination for president, people are more likely to feel Harris is honest, committed to democracy, disciplined, and cares about people like them, compared with Donald Trump. About equal shares describe Trump and Harris as capable of winning the election in November, a strong leader, and capable of handling a crisis. Forty-two percent think Harris has the right vision of the country and 35% say Trump has the right vision. When it comes to comparing the candidates on the issues, the public is more likely to trust Trump to do a better job handling the economy and immigration.  Harris is more trusted to handle racial inequality, abortion, and heath care. The public is closely divided on which candidate would do a better job of handling crime or the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

The US military and its Chinese suppliers (Govini.com) While China cranks out advanced weapons at a prodigious rate, it has also embedded itself in the supply chains for vital components of U.S. military platforms and weapons systems, creating U.S. reliance on the Chinese industrial base. Data from Govini’s Ark.ai, the software system for defense acquisition, show that between 2005 and 2020, the level of Chinese suppliers in the U.S. supply chains quadrupled. In categories such as electronics, industrial equipment, and transportation, China’s expansion is even more pronounced. Between 2014 and 2022, U.S. dependence on China for electronics increased by 600%. Chinese companies are embedded in the supply chains of subcontractors to defense primes across system components such as electronics, software, fuses and detonators, and data links. Tracing these connections reveals an adversarial presence in critical long-range systems.

'Don’t become a statistic': Hurricane Ernesto brings rip current danger to millions (USA Today) Hurricane Ernesto's eye was hundreds of miles from the U.S. on Saturday as it made landfall on Bermuda, but the storm will bring weekend danger to East Coast beaches, according to rip current and high surf warnings. Over 1 million people were under high surf advisories, while another nearly 10 million had statements issued for rip currents, according to the National Weather Service. (Rip currents can prove a deadly hazard for people far away from the center of a hurricane.) As far north as New York City, officials closed beaches in Brooklyn and Queens for the weekend due to dangerous rip currents from Ernesto. New Jersey officials also warned of dangerous and life-threatening rip currents along the Jersey Shore.

The British Have Finally Learned to Love Peanut Butter (NYT) When the American political commentator and noted peanut butter lover William F. Buckley Jr. arrived at an English boarding school in the late 1930s, care packages from home would include jars of peanut butter, which his British peers, he later wrote, “one after another actually spit out.” But over the last decade, Britain and many other corners of Europe have come around. Perched between the jams and marmalades at Waitrose, a popular British grocery chain, there are now 35 varieties of peanut butter—creamy and chunky, sweet and salty and extra-dark roasted, crammed into jars, squeeze bottles and two-pound tubs. Peanut butter—or as Jon Krampner, the author of “Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter,” calls it, the “all-American spread”—has well and truly landed across the Atlantic. Britain is not the first European nation to take up the sticky baton—the Netherlands outpaces even the United States in peanut butter consumption, according to Mr. Krampner. Yet the land of marmite is the most recent European country where the product has taken off.

In a Ukrainian prison, cells are full of young Russian conscripts (Washington Post) In the basement of a prison in northeastern Ukraine, dozens of Russian soldiers—some wounded, most barely adults—sat huddled on metal bunk beds Friday, dressed in mismatched T-shirts and flip flops. In one tile-floored cell secured with a heavy metal door, Garfield played on a TV in the corner. The prisoners of war are not seasoned fighters who were caught in battle in Ukraine, but Russian soldiers captured at home after a surprise Ukrainian incursion into Russia last week. Many are among Russia’s youngest men: conscripts fulfilling their year-long mandatory military service who were never supposed to see combat, let alone enter Ukraine. The capture of so many unprepared young men poses a significant challenge for the Kremlin. It also serves as a test case for Ukraine on how to handle such a large number of Russian POWs. Conscription service is a politically explosive subject in Russia, where all men must serve in the military once they turn 18. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised concerned mothers that conscripts would not be involved in any fighting.

India to hold first assembly elections in disputed Kashmir in 10 years (AP) India on Friday announced three-phased assembly elections in disputed Kashmir, the first in a decade and in a new political environment after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semi-autonomy and downgraded it to a federally controlled territory. Since those changes the region has remained on edge, governed by a New Delhi appointed administrator and run by bureaucrats with no democratic credentials. The new polls will be held between Sept. 18 and Oct. 1, India’s Election Commission said at a news conference in the capital, New Delhi. The vote will take place in a staggered process that allows the government to deploy tens of thousands of troops to prevent any outbreak of violence. However, contrary to the past, the local assembly will barely have any legislative powers with only nominal control over education and culture. Legislating laws for the region will continue to be with India’s parliament while policy decisions will be made in the capital.

China’s rhetoric drives Taiwanese back home (BBC) Recent Chinese policy moves to criminalise support for Taiwan are unnerving the plummeting number of Taiwanese people who live and work in China, as well as those living on the democratically governed island. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office was quick to assure the 23 million Taiwanese that its new polices are not targeted at them, but at an “extremely small number of hard-line independence activists”. The “vast majority of Taiwanese compatriots have nothing to fear,” the office said. But wary Taiwanese say they don’t want to test that claim. “I am currently planning to speed up my departure,” a Taiwanese businesswoman based in China said. “Any statement you make now could be misinterpreted and you could be reported.”

Typhoon Ampil moves away from Japan as train services resume and no major damage is reported (AP) A powerful typhoon that slammed the Tokyo area with heavy rains and brought mudslide warnings in northern Japan headed eastward out into the Pacific Ocean away from the coast Saturday. There were no reports of major damage. Tokyo and nearby areas were back to normal under sunny skies. Bullet trains that cancelled services between Tokyo and Nagoya, stranding thousands of passengers, resumed operations with the first morning train. Some local trains were still delayed, however, and dozens of airline flights remained cancelled. Typhoon Ampil was moving away from Japan’s eastern coast at 20 kph (12 mph), with sustained winds of 162 kph (101 mph), the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

US official says Mideast mediators are preparing for implementation of cease-fire deal in advance (AP) In a sign that mediators believe a Gaza cease-fire deal is imminent, a U.S. official said Friday that Mideast negotiators are working out logistics for the potential release of hostages and distribution of aid as part of any agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war. The official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity in keeping with rules set by the White House, said the proposal currently on the table basically bridges every gap between Israel and Hamas and mediators were making preparations before a final deal is approved. It was unclear what measures were being taken, but the official said a new “implementation cell” was being established in Cairo in advance. The cell would focus on logistics, including freeing hostages, providing humanitarian aid for Gaza and ensuring that the terms of the pact are met, the official said.

Palestinian killed as Israeli settlers torch West Bank village (BBC) A Palestinian man was shot dead as dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a village in the north of the occupied West Bank overnight, setting fire to houses and cars, Palestinian officials say. The settlers—some wearing masks—also threw rocks and Molotov cocktails in the village of Jit, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. It is the latest in the series of attacks by extremist settlers on Palestinian villages in the West Bank, where there has been a spike in violence since Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on 7 October and the ensuing war in Gaza. Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem—land the Palestinians want as part of a future state—in the 1967 Middle East war. The vast majority of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

CPJ denounces Israel’s smearing of killed Palestinian journalists with unsubstantiated ‘terrorist’ labels (CPJ) The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israel to stop making unproven claims that journalists slain by its forces are terrorists or engaging in militant activity, and demands international, swift, and independent investigations into these killings. “Even before the start of the Israel-Gaza war, CPJ had documented Israel’s pattern of accusing journalists of being terrorists without producing credible evidence to substantiate their claims,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna. “Smear campaigns endanger journalists and erode public trust in the media. Israel must end this practice and allow independent international investigations into the journalists’ killings.” Since the war began on October 7, 2023, Israel has used questionable and sometimes contradictory evidence to label at least three journalists killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as members or suspected members of militant organizations.

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fear teh villains: govini, mexi & achier, crysus, ghetis, lysard and guma 

[hitoshikokumai]

Also Disinvest from Security-Destroying Products

“US must invest in emerging tech to keep pace with China, Govini report says” https://www.c4isrnet.com/2022/07/05/us-must-invest-in-emerging-tech-to-keep-pace-with-china-govini-report-says/

Adopting emerging tech, if valid, is certainly important. No less important is to disinvest from the self-claimed security measures that actually destroy security.

What frightens us is that the destruction of identity security is just a click away; Click ‘Yes’ to “passwordless” login and we will lose the protection that the password, whether strong or weak, has somehow provided so far.

We would then be much more vulnerable to the attacks by criminals and rogue regimes on our digital identity than when we were protected by the defense surface of the password, only a part of which makes an attack surface.

This tragic comedy might have partly come from mixing up ‘being not good/helpful enough’ with ‘being bad/harmful’. If we find someone trapped in this pitfall, we should help them awake to it.

For more on this subject, please refer to “LOSS of Security Taken for GAIN of Security“ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/loss-security-taken-gain-hitoshi-kokumai/

Digital identity blogs collected at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/collection-digital-identity-comments-hitoshi-kokumai-posted-kokumai/

Website — https://www.mnemonicidentitysolutions.com/

[immolationist]

“You hurt me, I know; in my nerves you distill a tormented anguish, you irritate, you poison me: with your phosphorescent humidity of sealed tombs, you awaken in me a thousand painful anomalies. And yet I want you, desperately.” -  For Electric Venice by Corrado Govini 

[sciencespies]

Defense market a safe haven for space companies during pandemic

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Defense market a safe haven for space companies during pandemic

With the global economy in the grip of the coronavirus crisis, investments are grinding to a halt, creating deep uncertainty for a commercial space sector that has seen more than $25 billion in venture capital pour in over the last decade.

Since the pandemic hit, Pentagon contracts have been a lifeline for companies in the space industry, said Chris Quilty, president of Quilty Analytics. “The Department of Defense has gone out of its way to cultivate commercial relationships and to leverage the investment in talent that exists in the commercial domain,” he told SpaceNews. “In the current emergency, the Pentagon is supporting the industry from a financial perspective through contracting practices and accelerated payment terms.”

It is somewhat ironic, said Quilty, that many commercial space companies and investors have shown a bias against the government or the military for being too slow to make decisions and award contracts. In today’s reality, Quilty said, “many companies have discovered the government in some cases has the ability to move faster than commercial entities.”

Josh Hartman, a partner at the venture firm The Flying Object, described the current business climate as a “very shaky time.”

Right before the pandemic took hold, Hartman was working to raise funds for a small company in the space sector that had drawn interest from strategic national security investors. A deal was in the works but investors pulled back, and that is happening across the board, Hartman told SpaceNews. “When the entire economy is overshadowed by something like this, all companies become lower value. It’s much more difficult to raise money.”

Hartman, who also is a senior executive at Geost Inc., a supplier of electro-optical sensors to the U.S. military, said measures taken by DoD to soften the blow to the industry puts contractors in a stronger position to weather the crisis than companies that only rely on venture capital or commercial sales.

To keep money flowing to suppliers, the Pentagon on March 20 ordered contracting officers to increase the rate of progress payments from 80 percent to 90 percent for large companies, and to 95 percent for small businesses. The payments are for work already performed, so what DoD is doing is accelerating the cash back to companies. To date, DoD said, the boost in progress payments has injected $3 billion into the defense supply chain.

Another key move intended to avert layoffs was to allow for “equitable adjustments” so contractors are not penalized for poor performance caused by the pandemic. This means companies can request adjustments to contract schedules and costs, Hartman said.

This is going to help a lot of small businesses, he said. Inevitably schedules will slow down and that will drive up overhead costs. By offering to make adjustments, said Hartman, DoD is providing a safety net to companies that, without that kind of aid, would default on their obligations and likely go out of business.

DOD’S STAKE IN COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY

In key technology sectors including space, DoD has a huge stake in the health of commercial suppliers, said Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of the data and analytics firm Govini.

“The picture continues to look bleak across the board,” Murphy Dougherty told SpaceNews. The economic fallout on commercial business, she said, “could undermine progress DoD has made building bridges to the small business and startup community. Those bridges I don’t think are cemented in place yet.”

Organizations like the Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center have been working to bring more nontraditional suppliers into the defense sector but only the companies that have actual DoD contracts have a financial safety net right now, said Murphy Dougherty.

When DoD issued a memo March 20 identifying defense contractors as “critical infrastructure” that needed to keep working during the pandemic it sent a huge message, she said. “The biggest benefit was reducing uncertainty for industry and creating some financial security.”

Despite these government actions, the long-term outlook is still blurry, Murphy Dougherty said. “Until we have a vaccine, we’ll still have to absorb the impact on operations and on the workforce, even for mission-critical companies.”

“If you look at the airline industry as a proxy from a timeline perspective, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks it took two and a half years for air travel to reach the level that existed prior to 9/11,” she said. “It’s not a perfect analogy by any means but I think we need to start thinking of compounding delays and impact that could last years.”

RISK OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT

With many U.S. businesses facing financial distress, the influx of foreign capital to companies that develop technologies for national security is a major concern, Murphy Dougherty said.

“It is hard to identify what those vulnerable companies are without really good data,” she said. “If a company is publicly traded, there’s a lot of high quality data.” With non-publicly traded companies, it’s more difficult to identify their sources of funding but not impossible.

The Pentagon is anticipating that foreign capital will target cash-strapped U.S. technology firms during and after the coronavirus crisis, Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology, told reporters March 25.

A member of the California Air National Guard’s 216th Space Control Squadron sorts pears at a food bank in early April. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is using its contract authorities to provide a different sort of aid to space companies hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Credit: U.S. Space Force

The Defense Innovation Unit is watching this issue closely, said Brig. Gen. Steven Butow, who oversees the space portfolio at DIU and works with many startups in the sector.

DIU was created in 2015 to speed up the adoption of commercial technology across DoD. In addition to space, its other key areas of focus are artificial intelligence, autonomy, cyber and human systems.

Even before the pandemic, DIU had been working to identify what commercial businesses might be targeted by foreign investors, particularly from China. “The current state of affairs caused by COVID-19 does not affect this process,” Butow said in a statement to SpaceNews. “DIU has proactively engaged with our partner companies to determine how COVID-19 is affecting them and their ability to meet deliverables under current contracts.”

It’s too soon to say what the ultimate impacts might be, Butow said. “DIU continues to actively open new solicitations and execute new agreements in support of our mission to accelerate commercial technology for national security.”

CONTRACT AWARDS HELP PRIVATE FUNDING

Quilty said DoD contract announcements can make a huge impact during distressed times. For a commercial entity that is venture funded or private-equity backed, the news of a contract award, even if it hasn’t yet been executed or funded, is a major boost, he said. “If you’re an investor or a prospective investor, the fact that the company has been awarded a government contract gives you confidence to put in place bridge financing or go out for another round of fundraising.”

U.S. Air Force and Space Force procurement officials said they plan to do what they can to support suppliers. The commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, Lt. Gen. John Thompson, told SpaceNews March 25 that SMC is issuing contracts and accelerating awards as much as possible. “Many of our nontraditional small contractors have commercial solutions that we want to try to bring into the defense acquisition ecosystem,” said Thompson. “It’s definitely a priority for us to keep those innovative small companies in play as much as possible with the available budget we have.”

The senior acquisition executive for the Department of the Air Force, Will Roper, told reporters March 27 that he worries about small businesses that have developed important technologies for national security and are now struggling.

The Air Force in recent years stood up venture-style programs aimed at attracting small businesses that have technologies applicable to national security. “We’ll continue to award every SBIR [Small Business Innovation Research] we have available,” Roper said.

Industry consultant Jo-Anne Sears, a partner at Velocity Government Relations, said many venture-funded companies in the space sector develop cutting-edge technologies that the Pentagon needs to stay ahead of rivals like China. If these companies die, the implications would be significant because of their talented workforce, she said.

Sears credited the Air Force for stepping up “out-of-cycle” SBIR projects during the coronavirus pandemic. “This program was designed to rapidly fund meaningful national security projects focused on space, hypersonics and an assortment of technical challenges,” she said. This is one way to help prevent some of these critical companies from throwing in the towel.

Hartman, the venture fund partner, said there is a chance that the landscape in the space sector will be permanently changed.

“I’m fearful that COVID-19 on the heels of a couple of bad news stories like OneWeb and Bigelow will stop the flow of capital that has sparked the space boom we have seen of late,” Hartman said. “We’ve already seen that capital is drying up but I hope it comes back within months. Otherwise, we’ll see the end of the renaissance era.”

This article originally appeared in the April 13, 2020 issue of SpaceNews magazine.

#Space

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資安ETF創歷史新高！施密特：AI殺戮最快10年後應驗

貿易戰只是假議題，人工智慧(AI)軍備競賽才是大國領導人最關注的焦點？

華爾街日報3月2日報導，根據Govini的統計，2017年美國五角大廈的AI相關(包括大數據、雲端運算)支出金額(不包括未公開的機密支出)約74億美元、高於2012年的56億美元。美國官員雖將中國視為最大的競爭對手，但俄羅斯的潛在威脅也是不可輕忽的。莫斯科在電子戰領域擁有非凡的專業知識、未來10年的軍事目標是將AI自動機械化比例拉升至30%。

美國國防部前副部長Robert Work提議藉由打造類似美國太空總署(NASA)的AI民間機構來跟中國、俄羅斯一較高下。此外，他也提議成立AI儲備單位(類似後備軍人)、提供獎學金讓年輕人取得電腦科學學位，以換取年輕科學家定期在軍事AI實驗室提供服務。

英國電訊報3月1日報導，甫於2018年1月卸任的Alphabet Inc前執行董事長施密特(Eric Schmidt)表示，類似…

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Matt Hummer: Top IT contracting vehicles for 2018 - FederalNewsRadio.com

Regardless of the budget situation, the government has to spend a lot of money just to keep going. Modernizing systems, adding digital services, consolidating data centers,  all require contracting. Matt Hummer, director of analytics and professional services at Govini joined  Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a look at some of the top vehicles to watch this year.

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Source: Matt Hummer: Top IT contracting vehicles for 2018 – FederalNewsRadio.com

[strategictech]

Internet of Things poised to drive changes in the cloud

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A new report from Govini outlines the close connection between IoT and the cloud and how the Internet of Things will reshape the IT market going forward.

[rplatt101]

Fortify Networks Now Against the Coming Internet of Things Tsunami

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Amid the Internet of Things hoopla, serious cybersecurity risks cannot be ignored.

Richard Platt's insight:

With federal IoT spending already hitting nearly $9 billion in fiscal year 2015, according to research firm Govini, it’s a fair bet that IoT spending will continue to increase, particularly considering the department’s focus on arming warfighters with innovative and powerful technologies.  Amid the fanfare however, security risks exist that must not be overlooked. An increase in connected devices leads to a larger and more vulnerable attack surface offering a greater number of entry points for bad actors to exploit.  The IoT presents a case of been there, done that. A few years ago, iPhone and Android devices were the harbingers of ushering in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era. While the BYOD wave might have been good prep for a connected future, the IoT ecosystem will make managing smartphones and tablets seem like child’s play. To quote my colleague Patrick Hubbard: “IoT is a slowly rising tide that will eventually make IoT accommodation strategies pretty quaint.” That’s because we no longer are talking about a handful of standard operating systems, but potentially many more proprietary operating systems that will need to be managed individually.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged the problems that the IoT presents and the narrow yet closing window of opportunity to address security challenges, Robert Silvers, DHS assistant secretary for cyber policy, has said. Furthermore, the Defense Department is making significant strides to fortify the government’s IoT deployments. In addition to the Defense Department’s overall significant investment in wireless devices, sensors and cloud storage, the National Institute for Standards and Technology has issued an IoT model designed to provide researchers with a better understanding of the ecosystem and its security challenges.

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Pentagon's empty posts cause uncertainty for defense contractors

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s failure to fill dozens of senior-level positions at the Pentagon is making it difficult for defense contractors to forecast business.

Defense company officials, speaking on conference calls after their just-reported quarterly earnings, did not blame Trump directly, but said the lack of appointments to key positions at the Pentagon had slowed contract awards and created uncertainty.

“The still-high number of unfilled leadership appointments and the approaching government physical year-end continue to serve as headwinds,” said Roger Krone, chief executive of Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS.N), on an Aug. 3 call with analysts.

Krone, whose company is one of the largest providers of services to U.S. armed forces, said those open posts have slowed the awarding of government contracts.

The Department of Defense said it has 42 unfilled top-level posts that require Senate confirmation, including general counsel, inspector general and other important roles like secretary of the Army and undersecretary of the Navy.

The Pentagon referred a request for comment on its unfilled posts to the White House. A White House official said: “Democrat obstruction has played a key role in jamming up the president’s agenda.”

Of the 42 open positions that require Senate confirmation, 29 have no nominee identified, while 13 have nominees awaiting confirmation.

Talking Point

For two of the largest U.S. defense companies, General Dynamics Corp (GD.N) and L3 Technologies Inc (LLL.N), thin staffing at their largest customer was a talking point with investors.

The Defense Department is “working on filling several positions in the Pentagon and that has definitely resulted in a slowdown,” said Ralph D’Ambrosio, chief financial officer of L3, a prime contractor for surveillance, security and detection systems.

Because of the slowdown, the quarter just ended was the lowest second-quarter spending level on record at $62.5 billion, according to a report by data analysis firm Govini, seen by Reuters. The report said “federal procurement resources are stretched thinner than they ever have been.”

Leidos’ Krone pointed to the expected one-year delay of the Navy’s $3.5 billion NMCI NextGen program to update the intranet used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps as an example of a big contract delay.

Defense spending for the 2018 fiscal year and beyond was unclear, said Byron Callan, a defense analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, noting that few companies have changed their long-term profit expectations, suggesting that uncertainty has made forecasting more difficult.

“The fact that we didn’t have an enacted (fiscal year) 2017 budget until the early part of May, which was seven months into the fiscal year, has definitely slowed down the contracting activity and the obligation activity within the Department of Defense,” said D’Ambrosio.

Some of the positions have been difficult to fill. Two of Trump’s nominees for Army secretary, its top professional civilian position, withdrew their names from consideration. The White House then nominated Raytheon Co (RTN.N) lobbyist Mark Esper, and he is awaiting a vote on his confirmation.

General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic said during her company’s conference call that “without these appointments, it is difficult to process contracts” and to make progress on defense-related projects.

Novakovic’s information systems and technology business unit has thousands of shorter sales-cycle service contracts which can reflect delays quickly.

Reporting by Mike Stone; Editing by Chris Sanders and Bill Rigby

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Surface 平板在美國政府比 iPad 更受歡迎

Surface 平板在美國政府比 iPad 更受歡迎

  Microsoft Surface 平板初推出時初個人電腦廠商投訴踩過界, 不過最新報告顯示美國政府越來越多使用 Surface 平板多於 Apple iPad. (more…)

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Pentagon spending more on emerging tech -- Defense Systems

The Department of Defense spent $7.4 billion in fiscal year 2017 on cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence technologies, according to a recent Govini report.

Source: Pentagon spending more on emerging tech — Defense Systems

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Matt Hummer: What's in the 2017 federal spending scorecard - FederalNewsRadio.com

It may look complicated to outsiders, but federal spending patterns aren’t that much different from other industries. Who are the big customers, what are they buying and who are they buying it from? Analyst Matt Hummer joined Federal Drive with Tom Teminto highlight the latest version of Govini’s comprehensive federal market scorecard.

Source: Matt Hummer: What’s in the 2017 federal spending scorecard – FederalNewsRadio.com