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USA – Survey: Nearly 80% of Feds, D.C. Employees Believe Productivity Increased With Telework (Frank Konkel, Nextgov)

Almost four in five federal employees and Washington, D.C. government workers say they’ve been more productive while teleworking during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a...

TechInnovation – How AI Can Help with Critical Government System Maintenance Needs (Steve Brothers, Nextgov)

When the onslaught of unemployment claims filed early in the COVID-19 pandemic forced many of the decades-old government computer systems responsible for processing those...

Cybersecurity – US, UK Officials: Russian Military Leveraging Containers in Active Hacking Campaign (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

Hackers from a Russian military unit are using automation technology to scale common password-guessing tactics and have successfully infiltrated their targets, according to a...

USA/Somalia – ‘Black Hawk Down’ Veterans to Receive 58 Silver Stars (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The Army is upgrading the valor awards of 60 special operators who participated in the ill-fated Battle of Mogadishu 28 years ago—perhaps best known...

USA – A Catch-22 Is Keeping Telemedicine Off the Battlefield (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Say telemedicine, and you might imagine two-way video or perhaps haptic sensors and augmented reality—features that need enormous bandwidth. But field studies from a...

USA – The Space Development Agency now has demo satellites on orbit. Here’s what they’ll do (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Space Development Agency has launched a handful of demonstration satellites into orbit, which will be used to test critical technologies for a new...

USA/Kuwait – Kuwait gets thumbs up for $445M military vehicle package (Chris Martin, Defense News)

The U.S. State Department on Thursday approved a potential sale of heavy tactical vehicles to Kuwait for $445 million. Kuwait gets thumbs up for $445M military vehicle...

Europe – ‘Our adversaries exploit our seams’: Trinational effort seeks stronger air-policing coordination (Vivienne Machi, Defense News)

On a bright, blustery afternoon about 14 miles from the western coast of the Black Sea, a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter jet operated by the...

Italy – Italian Navy aircraft carrier to get first F-35B ‘within a few days’ (Tom Kington, Defense News)

The Italian Navy aircraft carrier Cavour will receive its first F-35B this month after the vessel started certification work in the U.S. earlier this year to...

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