Where there's a .mil, there's Huawei: Pentagon allowed to keep using Chinese tech deemed too dangerous for everyone else – report The crackdown on telecoms gear from Huawei and other Chinese companies in federal networks will not apply to US Department of Defense, at least for a few more weeks. Under Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, US agencies and the contractors they employ were supposed to stop having any dealings with five …
No, it's not a matter of rules, it's a matter of them getting off their lazy butts and doing what they're told. Yes, of course their IT budget has run out, it's why they bought cheap buggy kit rather than expensive buggy kit in the first place.
The US military's budget has run out? You must be daft, just unobservant or a chest thumping USian (or all of the above).
The US' military budget is larger than the next 8 countries combined. It has not been able to account for some $21 trillion (look it up).
No money? They're the ONLY government branche that gets more than enough money to operate. Everything else, from public education to infrastructure and other public services are falling apart.
https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-the-U-S-federal-budget-goes-to-the-military
"it has not been able to account for some $21 trillion"
That was adjustments, i.e., the value/charge an item was logged at, but in reality is this. It is the summation of the total amount of adjustments, so something was over valued by $1T, that's $1T on that list, something is under valued by $1T, that's another $1T, so now that adjustment count is at $2T even though they cancelled each other out.
The thing is, within the time period that 21T that is 'unaccounted' for, their total funded didn't come to 21T.
it just shows (for what ever reasons, intentional or not), that they have piss poor book keeping. That spending booked deviated (either way) over the total funding that they had.
Sorry for reality, but I was in Signal Corp. We never got the massive funding. The radios I trained on were from WW2, and were in current operation and deployment. The satellite equipment was 1970s prototype crap. The most advanced equipment I used was used gear from AT&T. Seriously, they sold their 1960's transmitters to the US Army, and it was a big upgrade.
Communications infrastructure being state of the art? Hardly. DOD bought crap because they could only afford crap. If Trump wants Chinese comms out of the network, he can push the budget to do it.
You can shove your head in statistics and in the sand, but don't try to bullshit me, who was trained on equipment that was built 40 years before I enlisted.
The US government fiscal year ends on September 30, when I worked for the federal government we usually ran out of money for capex around August. Then, come October 1, we had plenty of money to spend. I assume that the military uses the same fiscal year, so they might not have money right this minute.
THAT money is for planes/tanks/missiles/ships built by generous campaign donors or stationed in various congressional home districts. Comms gear/base /infrastructure/family housing/schools/medical services (VA) doesn't see the big numbers and have to beg for the scraps.
Department of Defense has been granted a short-term waiver from the blockade until September 30.
Keeping up appearances an all that... you know!
And on September 30, they ask for another extension, and provide plenty of excuses as to why it didn't get done.
They pretend now because of the current business\political relationship with China. If they can wait it out until say ~ January when the new regime takes over, it may be a moot point. Someone will hit CTL Z and undo the stupid things that have been done in the last 4 years
Sorry to add to my own reply, but one must always remember the military is its own entity, and will survive as they always have, regardless of the current political leader, they will always looking out for themselves. .... chivo243
Imagining and realising the military is as just another client to offer overwhelming business opportunities to, .... and one that can have themselves looked out for,..... has all nation states and any wannabe lone tinpot star non-state actors systemically vulnerable to exploitation from within novel AI developments. And such is apparently of grave global security concern if one is to believe all of the hyperventilating hype being given to problems being admitted persist in a defensive preemptive strike attacking arsenal which does not exist in Currently Earthed SCADA Systems, that is, at least not existing for normal human leverage and activation.
It is though not all doom and gloom for there are just as many, if not considerably more future treats readily available, as there are present persistent active cyber threats to investigate and try render ineffective and phantom, with the following submission being just the tip of one of those titanic icebergs ......
amanfromMars [2008151623] ....... just saying about elsewhere commenting on https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/heres-why-impossible-economic-collapse-unavoidableHere's some evidence in defence and agreement with the proposition ..... a whole new ball game is in play. .......
2008151502 ..... having a chat on https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/8/10/lawmakers-want-more-ai-for-militaryA current quantum communication running use case of artificial intelligence capabilities that support efforts to improve the department’s “back office” business processes and systems. ...... a ripe plum investment opportunity for/with DOD leverage virtually guaranteed in Leading Future Programs. Universal Presentations. ........ https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/08/14/aws_braket_quantum_cloud/#c_4090092
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Re: "on the lookout for pilots in the Alien Air Force. ......a potential adversary may have achieved breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put United States strategic or conventional forces at risk.” ........ Pentagon Stands Up Task Force ..
Far be it from me to suggest that may have achieved breakthrough is yesterday's so conservatively speculative paranoid news, however ....... there are massive fortunes to be made and recurring government grants to be won by anyone able to supply and manage such risky frisky breakthrough sources. And that makes them most attractive to that and/or those enabled to stealthily consistently deliver leading competitive edges and hedges against any relatively effective opposition.
"Someone will hit CTL Z and undo the stupid things that have been done in the last 4 years"
I know Trump promised to reverse *everything* Obama did, and he's really tried his best to keep that promise, but it seems much of what Trump has done genuinely and desperately NEEDS to be reversed.
It's going to get embarrassing for Boris Johnson, if the next American administration removes the Huawei sanctions.
The distant echo of the words "Taking back control"...
Are the Pentagon stalling because they doubt Trump's chances of a second term?
Why change things now, when in a few months, using Huawei equipment will be all fine again, is probably the thinking.
I don't believe Boris Johnson has the ability to be embarrassed.
However, Boris Johnson is going to be quite surprised when he and The Dom are ceremoniously thrown from a window and into the street (the floor of which still awaiting a committee decision).
"The Old Ones" are fixing to pin everything that has gone wrong all the way till post Brexit on him and The Dom. The Dom knows and is fixing to ooze out from under the hammer, De Pfeffle - is busy doing whatever worked for him so far so it will be a total surprise.
I even did not read the articel yet, but my opinion on U$A's stance is that they will always want you to know that they as the one and only ever and first used a nuclear weapon, TWICE. And they feel they are the only ones entitled to it's use. And dito for all the rest of the tactics they use to implement a strong, structural strategy of narcissistic egoïsm. And this was the case already before plump became the president in name. He's not even an acting president.
Hey hey hey!! We have a plan in place to create an action to create a schedule that will allow us to action a plan to schedule the creation of a plan to plan for the scheduled action of performing the schedule action at a time and place as defined by the aforementioned scheduled action plan.
As you can see we take planning very seriously. And scheduling...
@AC -- Backdoors, etc.
On the general subject of backdoors, there's the unfortunate fact that users can use private encryption before their messages get into the channel.
The result is that the spooks, whoever they are, end up looking at something like this.
Welcome to user controlled computing....as compared with Signal, or WhatsApp, or Cisco!....or even Huawei!
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