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Floodgates of Fraud
BadGuysBlog – The National Reconnaissance Office has an annual budget of around $7.5 Billion (Around 17% of the IC budget). The NRO’s Inspector General – Feldman suggested something was amiss in the Journal of Public Inquiry, an obscure publication put … Continue reading
Pakistani Suicide Attack
HChronicle – In the deadliest suicide attack on the Pakistani military, a man with explosives strapped to his body ran up to soldiers doing calisthenics Wednesday and blew himself up, killing at least 42 troops and wounding 20. Dargai is … Continue reading
Voting Machines
CBS5 – This is getting ridiculous: Voting machines sold to 21 different counties in California could allow people to vote more than once, state election officials warn in a notice to counties. The notice went out on Monday, just eight … Continue reading
DISA Vs. Amazon
FCW.com – In a recent test, the Defense Information Systems Agency compared the cost of developing a simple application called the Tech Early Bird on $30,000 worth of in-house servers and software with the costs of developing the same application … Continue reading
Iraqi Military Government
Somehow calling for a police state in order to maintain an Iraqi state doesn’t seem particularly kosher. Is our commitment to legacy systems really this strong? -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.