Steve Aftergood: CRS Defense Primer Series
Congressional Research Service Reports Defense Primers Defense Primer: A Guide for New Members, updated September 3, 2019 Remaining Primes Below the Fold
Steven Aftergood: CRS US Financial Assistance to Israel
U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $142.3 billion (current, or noninflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding. PDF (40 Pages): RL33222 US Financial Assistance to Israel
Steven Aftergood: USG Seeking to Move to All Digital Copies Instead of Preserving Originals
NARA Drives Govt Transition to All-Electronic Records Phi Beta Iota: So the US Constitution, to take one example, would become a digital image easily manipulated (or deleted).
Steven Aftergood: CRS on 5G (PBI: They Totally Ignore Ecocidal and Genocidal Aspects of 5G)
National Security Implications of Fifth Generation (5G) Mobile Technologies, CRS In Focus, June 12, 2019 Phi Beta Iota: Until we have an honest Congress we will not have an honest CRS. They are not allowed to address the ecocidal and genocidal aspects of 5G, or the FACT that both 5G and wi-fi are uninsurable. See …
Steven Aftergood: Defense Contracting Fraud
Defense Contracting Fraud: A Persistent Problem The report was prepared in response to a requirement in the FY2018 defense authorization act at the initiative of Sen. Bernie Sanders. It was released this week under the Freedom of Information Act.
Steve Aftergood: DoD C4I (DODIN) Is Hosed….
DoD Network Operations Face a Contested Environment The actual network infrastructure is “antiquated and is failing at high rates,” Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson told the House Armed Services Committee last year in response to questions for the record in a newly published hearing volume.