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US Air Force Tanker

…secured airfields. In 1942 the US Navy could send only one fleet carrier to the Atlantic, to support the convoys crossing the Atlantic as well as other missions. Royal Navy…

Pot, Kettle; Kettle, Pot

…believes that both companies failed their public mission of making housing affordable. Uh, this is the administration that argued for the ownership society, right? The Administration that trumpeted the (temporary)…

Shadow system ethics

mission.” (4)”Comparable services, meeting comparable needs, are performed in the same or similar agencies using civil service personnel.” (5) “The need for the type of service provided can reasonably be…

Another whittling the beak

…in Korea in June 1950. The Korea police action added the need for conventional war “continuous mobilization” to the nuclear warfare (Air Force pilots, every one a Capt Kirk) mission

Whatever floats your boat

…in this boat, so to speak? Which are bloat and which make us float? And what mission is the agenda underneath? Imagine being in charge of this project as a…

Whittle a beak series

…show that the interceptors can launch from alert with no script, will complete a mission cycle and get to target if needed. All the tests are highly scripted, and look…

I haven’t done anything wrong

…that it would be reckless to constrain the agency’s mission. The NSA says it is scrupulously following all applicable laws and that it keeps Congress fully informed of its activities….

Cost benefit analysis and OIRA

…regulation, the personnel assigned to a task, penalties and fines, mission expectations, and of course then through the agency of a politically correctness officer. ‘Politically correct’ is a term used…

Qwest for the truth

…then Qwest’s senior vice president of government systems, met with NSA officials at Fort Meade, expecting to discuss “Groundbreaker,” a project to outsource the NSA’s non-mission-critical systems. The men came…

Patriots and viewpoints

…hospital in the United States. … It closed: “We need not talk about our morale. As committed soldiers, we will see this mission through.” I offer a few moments silence…