Rapid Fire 2011-11-30: DoD/USSS/DHS Information Sharing Rules
Nov 30, 2011 09:15 ESTRelated Stories: Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, IT - Cyber-Security, Legal, Logistics Innovations, Middle East - Other, Public Partnering
- The US Senate unanimously approved the Combating Military Counterfeits Act (S 1228) as an amendment to the FY12 Appropriations bill. It involves criminal penalties and is part of a broader effort to tighten the military supply chain after the revelation that suspect electronic parts from China had been installed on a variety of military systems. Another approved amendment (S 1025) intends to give the National Guard a seat at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Similar language is already in the House’s version of the bill so this has significant chances of making it through reconciliation, whenever that will finally happen. CJCS Martin Dempsey thinks it’s a bad idea.
- Michele A. Flournoy, US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, published DoD procedures on how to share information with the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security (DoDI 3025.19 PDF).
- The US Government Accountability Office finds there’s too much overlap and not enough coordination between the 5 federal agencies with cybersecurity personnel. That’s what happens when everyone think they’re in charge.
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- Can the US government lease to own? Sure. See also the primer [PDF] on aircraft leasing published by the Defense Acquisition University in 2005. As an aside, in 2006 DoD categorized rent-to-own loans to servicemembers as predatory lending but reverted that position the next year.
- Quartermaster soldiers at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq are packing the last pallets of nonrolling stock out of the country, either back home or to Afghanistan. That includes computers, radios, or even medical equipment. See this entry from early November for a video of rolling stock logistics shot in the same location.
- Australia formally decommissions HMAS Kanimbla. With typhoon season beginning, the event underscores the importance of RMAS Choules’ (ex-Largs Bay) planned mid-December arrival.
- European Defense Ministers have their semiannual meeting today. Bruxelles2 covers the agenda [in French] which should span sea piracy (a topic that seems to concern Europeans much more than Americans) and the escalation of the spat between Great Britain and Iran. The momentous issue in the background though is sovereign debt and government funding stability over the years to come.
- Also in French (aren’t you happy DID makes you practice your rusty foreign languages?), the fun video below by Swiss TV channel TSR on the country’s ongoing fighter competition:
