new trump tweet
"End the Democrats Obstruction!"
E D O
EDO rearranged could also be EOD = end of day?
Gov shutdown to end by the end of today?
or maybe this instead?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDO_Corporation
EDO Corporation was an American company, which was acquired by ITT Corporation in 2007. EDO designed and manufactured products for defense, intelligence, and commercial markets, and provided related engineering and professional services. It employed 4,000 people worldwide and had revenues of $715 million in 2006. EDO's assets went to ITT Defense Electronics and Services. As of May 2015, these assets are now part of Harris Corporation[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Corporation
Harris Corporation is an American technology company, defense contractor and information technology services provider that produces wireless equipment, tactical radios, electronic systems, night vision equipment and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense and commercial sectors. They specialize in surveillance solutions,[2] microwave weaponry,[3] and electronic warfare.[4][non-primary source needed]
Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $7 billion of annual revenue. It is the largest private-sector employer in Brevard County, Florida (approximately 6,000).[5] The company was the parent of Intersil (Harris Semiconductor). Most of the wireless start-ups in South Brevard County were founded and are staffed by former Harris Corporation engineers and technicians.[citation needed] The company's Digital Telephone Systems (DTS) division was sold to Teltronics.
In 2016, Harris was named one of the top hundred federal contractors by Defense News.[6] In January 2015, Wired Magazine ranked Harris Corporation—tied with U.S. Marshals Service—as the number two threat to privacy and communications on the Internet.[7]
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harris.com/press-releases/2012/11/president-obama-to-appoint-harris-corporation-ceo-to-the-national-security
"President Obama to Appoint Harris Corporation CEO to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee"
MELBOURNE, FL/WASHINGTON, D.C — Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, announced that President Barack Obama intends to appoint Harris President and Chief Executive Officer William M. Brown to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).
Brown will be one of 30 chief executives on the committee, which develops recommendations to assure vital telecommunications links through any event or crisis, and to help the U.S. Government maintain a reliable, secure, and resilient national communications posture. Committee members represent major telecommunications companies, network service providers, information technology, finance and aerospace companies.
For more than 30 years, the NSTAC has addressed a wide range of policy and technical issues regarding communications, information systems, information assurance, critical infrastructure protection, and other national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications concerns. In recent years, the government, with the support of the NSTAC, addressed new NS/EP challenges caused by several primary factors: the convergence of traditional and broadband networks; the changing global threat environment; and the continuing global expansion of both provider and user communities.
"It is an honor to be appointed by the President to serve on this important advisory committee," said Brown. "Reliable and secure communications plays a critical role in our society. I hope to bring the breadth of Harris Corporation's expertise in assured communications and information technology to issues affecting national security and our Nation's emergency preparedness."
Brown was appointed president and chief executive officer of Harris in November 2011. Before joining the Harris Corporation, he was senior vice president for Corporate Strategy and Development at the United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Brown joined UTC in 1997, prior to which he was a senior engagement manager at McKinsey and Company. He began his career at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., where he worked as a project engineer. Brown serves on the Board of the Fire Department of New York Foundation and the Florida Polytechnic Board of Trustees. He received a B.S. and an M.S. from Villanova University, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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harris.com/press-releases/2011/05/robert-whelen-of-harris-corporation-named-champion-of-change-by-obama
"Robert Whelen of Harris Corporation Named 'Champion of Change' by Obama Administration"
MELBOURNE, FL, May 10, 2011 — Robert G. (Bob) Whelen, vice president of Real Estate and Environmental, Health and Safety for Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), was honored by the White House recently as a Champion of Change — a program that is part of President Obama's Winning the Future initiative. Each week, the program features a group of Americans, businesses or organizations who embody the ideals of 'out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.'
Whelen and 11 other Brevard County business and community leaders nominated by the Administration were selected to participate in a roundtable discussion on the impact of the retirement of the Space Shuttle on the Space Coast economy, and actions by the Administration that would help mitigate this economic impact. The event was held at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation facility.
Each of Brevard's Champions of Change also will be featured on the White House website May 9-15, where they will post a short blog about the work they are doing in the community and their experience as a member of the roundtable.
According to Whelen, roundtable participants encouraged the Administration to leverage the existing capabilities of the Kennedy Space Center and the high-tech workforce of the Space Coast to include research and development, engineering, manufacturing, and expanding launch capabilities at KSC. This would serve as an economic engine for the region, affording the United States a more cost-effective space program that also would attract new businesses in non-space, high-tech industries. The group also encouraged the Administration to incentivize business to locate, grow and expand on the Space Coast.
"It was a distinct honor and pleasure to be selected as a Champion of Change," said Whelen, who also serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast. "In my role at Harris, I have the opportunity to visit many communities and establish business operations around the world. Nowhere else but on the Space Coast have I witnessed a community so determined to succeed — to overcome challenges and emerge stronger than ever."
Whelen has been very active in economic development activities in the U.S. and internationally throughout his career. He is a chemical engineering graduate from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
still looking into the Harris Corporation, but does this have to do with how all those "deleted" emails and texts aren't actually missing?
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thebaffler.com/latest/stingrays-new-surveillance
"Stingrays, ShotSpotters, and Our New Relentless Surveillance"
It’s time to add a new name to your post-9/11 bestiary of technologies of control. Meet the Stingray, a device whose name sounds like it was ripped from a minor league baseball team in a pathetic attempt to seem fierce. A Stingray is a boxy collection of electronics that, by simulating a cell tower and intercepting cell phone signals, allows law enforcement to track down phones, scoop up their metadata and, sometimes, the very contents of their communications.
Stingrays have been known to the public for a few years, but the federal government would prefer it otherwise. So, too, would Stingray’s manufacturer, the Harris Corporation, a Melbourne, Florida-based defense contractor that pumps out enough communications, surveillance, and IT products to bring in about $5 billion in revenue per annum. That’s a lot of business to keep secret. Fortunately, Harris has found a good partner in the FBI, which has distributed Stingray and other cell site simulators to intelligence agencies as well as municipal police forces all over the country.
Any law enforcement agencies who purchase the Stingray are required to sign non-disclosure agreements, meaning that they can’t discuss the technology—like what it does, or when it’s used—with anyone, be it a judge or a defendant. That’s led to some cases falling apart or defendants being allowed to plead down, when a local cop can’t explain how he found that alleged drug dealer’s phone. In other instances, Florida police officers, prompted by the Marshals Service, have simply lied to judges about their use of Stingrays.
Essentially, then, the FBI—along with the Department of Homeland Security, which provides grants to many local forces to buy these and other militarized policing products—acts as Harris Corporation’s sales agent. By forcing NDAs upon Stingray purchasers, the FBI is helping to corner the market for Harris, whose intellectual property is now treated as a veritable state secret. It is also helping to encourage local police forces to become like intelligence agencies, down to their dissembling about their tactics.
Stingrays (and I’m just using this brand name to stand in for a range of similar products) aren’t benign instruments that can be programmed to track down a single phone and disregard all others. They are capable of sucking up large amounts of data from many phones in an area. These monitoring technologies have spread widely, from Milwaukee to Florida, California to New York. It’s all part of a vast, unaccountable domestic surveillance apparatus, one that, having captured our nation’s seventeen intelligence agencies, is now becoming firmly embedded in local police forces and in everyday police work. Whether it’s U.S. Marshals attaching CIA-supplied Stingrays to planes to track phones over wide areas, or DHS drones operating similar technologies near our borders (and often transferring control of the UAVs to local agencies), these devices are now permanent features of our nation’s dragnet.
Stingray is the boogeyman of the moment, but there’s another one waiting around the corner. The NYPD is currently expanding the use of ShotSpotter, a system of sensors designed to detect and quickly report the location of gunfire, potentially saving police officers precious time. There are problems with ShotSpotter, though. One study in Suffolk County, Long Island, found that only 7 percent of the system’s alarms were verified shootings. (In another study at the Charleston Navy Yard in South Carolina, the detection rate was far higher.)
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But beyond its disputed reliability, ShotSpotter is problematic because it embeds urban environments with sensors that, like Stingrays, might pick up far more than they were designed to. That has already happened, with arguments recorded by ShotSpotter before a shooting broke out being used as evidence in court. Once these types of recordings start being used in court, the potential use cases will expand dramatically. That must please current NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, a pusher of the technology, who until assuming his current position sat on the board of SST Inc.—the manufacturer of ShotSpotter.
The lack of open discussion and policy deliberation surrounding these technologies should concern everyone. There has long been speculation about whether foreign elements—whether governments, narco gangs, or simply some rogue hackers—have ever operated Stingrays on U.S. soil. Imagine a few of these scattered around Washington, D.C., mostly undetectable and operated by the Chinese or the Russians, and you can understand why security wonks were shocked that Hillary Clinton was using a private email account as Secretary of State. One ride down the wrong street, and her phone could have been compromised, and no one would have known.
There are glimmers of change, but they may just be mirages in the desert of progress. Virginia recently passed a law that requires law enforcement to get a warrant to get telecom records, a provision that covers the use of Stingrays. Just this week, a Supreme Court judge in Buffalo, New York ruled that the local sheriff’s office must disclose how it uses Stingrays. Expanding on these measures might not curb Stingrays’ use, but adding a warrant requirement is a good step toward accountability.
Yet as long as the federal government and a defense contractor can collude to keep these technologies secret, we can only wonder at their use, and at the scale of their violations.
yes, same UTC!
alumni.mckinsey.com/public_content/500174222
"William Brown appointed President of Carrier Refrigerated Transport"
May 25, 2001
Carrier Corporation announced a new organizational structure for its global refrigeration business, designed to continue achieving operational excellence while growing its position in the global refrigeration industry. William Brown (90-97 NY, NJ) has been appointed president of the Carrier Refrigerated Transport organization. This business consists of the Carrier Transicold Container Products Group, North American and European truck-trailer, and bus-rail air conditioning.
Brown will be responsible for refrigeration transport platforms on a global basis. He most recently held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Carrier's Replacement Components Division (RCD), and in this position achieved extraordinary results implementing a strategy of growth and customer focus.
Brown joined UTC in 1997 following 7 years as a Senior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company Carrier Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of heating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems and equipment. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, provider of a broad range of high-technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries.
remember when Kellyanne Conway made the comment about microwaves spying on us?
Harris Corporation specializes in surveillance solutions, microwave weaponry, and electronic warfare.
any sort of connection?