Oil prices rising on high demand and low supply. OPEC+ countries canceling crisis talks because they can’t agree on what to do. What does one expert think could happen next? The Pentagon cancels a cloud computing contract with Microsoft, after extended legal pressure from Amazon. Amazon claims the Pentagon chose Microsoft because of politics. Forget about hiring new…
Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion Contract That Microsoft and Amazon Were Fighting Over
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced Tuesday it won’t go through with a multibillion-dollar cloud computing project that was awarded to Microsoft. The agency said it canceled the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project and now had initiated the termination of its contract with Microsoft. “The Department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud…
US Report on Pentagon-Documented UFOs Leaves Sightings Unexplained
A major U.S. government report on UFOs released on Friday said defense and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by military pilots including whether they are advanced earthly technologies, atmospherics, or of an extraterrestrial nature. The report, submitted to Congress and released to the public, encompasses 144…
Military Diversity Officer Who Compared Trump to Hitler Reinstated After Pentagon Probe
A diversity officer in a U.S. military branch has been reinstated after an investigation into his social media posts, which included one missive comparing former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, uncovered no violations of Department of Defense policies. In March, the U.S. Special Operations Command announced the hiring of Richard Torres-Estrada as its chief…
Pentagon Diverts Most Border Wall Funds to Overseas Military Construction: Memo
The Biden administration announced Friday that it returned more than $2 billion in military funds that former President Donald Trump had diverted to the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, while the Department of Defense (DOD) simultaneously announced that those funds will be used for overseas military construction projects. Instead of border wall construction, the…
Budget Plan Shows Pentagon Not a Biden Administration Priority, Experts Say
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal year 2022 made it clear that defense is not his top priority at a time when the Chinese communist regime builds its military power, posing a threat to U.S. security interests. The president’s budget released on May 28 for the fiscal year 2022 seeks $752.9 billion for national defense,…
Chinese Military Firms Challenge Pentagon to Reverse Trump’s Investment Ban
WASHINGTON—A Chinese smartphone maker won a key legal victory against the U.S. government this spring, which is expected to embolden more Chinese companies with military ties to challenge a Trump-era ban that prohibited U.S. investors from investing in their firms. The Department of Defense in May officially removed China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest smartphone vendor, from…
Pentagon Pushes Back on Report of Anti-Extremism Social Media Tracking Program
The Department of Defense (DOD) on Tuesday denied a report that alleged Pentagon officials plan to launch a program to screen social media content for extremist material. “I think there’s some misreporting on this. Actually I don’t think there’s been misreporting, I know there’s been misreporting. There’s no pilot program run by Mr. Garrison or…
Relieved Space Force Commanding Officer: ‘I Condemn All Forms of Extremism’
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was recently relieved as a U.S. Space Force commanding officer, said he condemns “all forms of extremism” and defended against allegations that he was “politically partisan” when he denounced the spread of Marxism in the military. Lohmeier last week was relieved of command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron over “public comments”…
Pentagon Says ‘UFO’ Footage From US Navy Is Under Investigation
The Pentagon has confirmed that images and footage of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) released to the public last month were taken by U.S. Navy personnel, and are currently under investigation by its UAP Task Force. It comes after documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell shared media on YouTube, writing that the U.S. Navy “photographed and filmed ‘pyramid’…
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