AUGUST 26, 2024 – With the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, women were granted the right to vote, though it was a selective equality because most Black women remained disenfranchised under Jim Crow laws until nearly five decades later. “We must understand the past and know where we are today to forge our future path,” said Maj. Gen. Hope Rampy, … [Read more...]
LaunchPad Software Transforms Digital Workforce
AUGUST 26, 2024 – A new cloud-based software tool environment is driving transformative change across the Digital Materiel Management workspace at the Air Force Materiel Command. The Department of the Air Force Digital Transformation Office teamed up with Digital Platform as a Service (DPaaS) and contractor SAIC to create LaunchPad, an enterprise-funded software environment … [Read more...]
NCIS Welcomes K9
AUGUST 26, 2024 - While each NCIS agent possesses a unique set of skills, the typical agent embodies intelligence, curiosity, fitness, composure, and a strong work ethic. However, the newest addition to the team possesses all these traits … and more. K9 Jill excels at her work, demonstrating abilities that even the most seasoned special agents find impressive. At just two … [Read more...]
The Future of Space Warfighting
AUGUST 26, 2024 - Space has been making headlines more and more in recent years with the dawn of commercial space flight, the introduction of proliferated constellations in Low Earth Orbit, and the invention of reusable rockets, but access to space is not something that can be taken for granted. In a joint prepared statement to Congress in June 2017, the Honorable Heather A. … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Seizes 3400 Pounds of Cocaine in Eastern Pacific
AUGUST 26, 2024 – The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba (WMEC 907) offloaded more than 3,400 pounds of cocaine and 4,410 pounds of marijuana with a combined assessed street value of approximately $50 million in Port Everglades, Friday. The Escanaba crew embarked a Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron aircrew, and Law Enforcement Detachment 107 from Coast … [Read more...]