>Dough
https://www.navytimes.com/naval/2023/01/11/navy-frustration-building-over-late-weapons-ship-deliveries/
Navy frustration building over late weapons, ship deliveries
ARLINGTON, Va. — Exasperation is growing over the U.S Navy’s inability to get missiles and weapons delivered fast enough to keep its own magazines full, let alone offer more assistance to Ukraine or other partners in need, several leaders said at this week’s annual Surface Navy Association conference.
“I’m not as forgiving of the defense industrial base,” Adm. Daryl Caudle, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said Jan. 11. “I am not forgiving the fact that they’re not delivering the ordnance we need, I’m just not.”
“All this stuff about COVID this, parts, supply chain this, I just don’t really care,” he continued. “I need [Standard Missile]-6s delivered on time. I need more [torpedoes] delivered on time.”
Caudle oversees the readiness-generation of all ships, submarines and aircraft on the Atlantic side of the Navy. He said the service is working internally to boost its readiness, including announcing this week the surface fleet would aim to have at least 75 mission-capable ships at all times to send on missions with little notice — but this progress is being hampered by backlogs in industry.
The Navy is buying two submarines a year, but industry is only delivering at a rate of 1.2 a year.
“In five years, instead of delivering 10 fast attack submarines, I got six. Where’s the other four? My force is already four submarines short,” Caudle said. Ships coming out of maintenance availabilities late, both at Navy public yards and private industry yards, worsens the problem. While the Navy should have 10 of its 50 subs in deep maintenance, 19 are in or awaiting repairs.
“Imagine if I was on time, my submarine force would be nine ships larger. That is a significant number,” he said.
Caudle noted that if the Navy had ready its 75 mission-capable ships, “their magazines wouldn’t all be full.”
He said the Navy knows which missiles would make the most impact during a fight, and the Navy wants to see defense contractors prioritize these top programs, even at the expense of other production lines if needed.
“We are spending large amounts of money with these companies. … When they don’t deliver, that impacts the national security that we provide this country,” the four-star said. “If there’s areas that we need to do better … where they can go build more stable workforces, go buy more early materials, go get more certainty and buy down their risk because we’re more committed to larger buys of ordnance or ships or whatever it is, we’ve got to have those conversations.”
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told Defense News on Jan. 10 at the conference he prioritized readiness — including ordnance — in the fiscal 2023 spending request and would do so again in the FY24 plan expected out this spring.
“The message that I’m trying to send there is, not only am I trying to fill magazines with weapons, but I’m trying to put U.S. production lines at their maximum level right now and to try and maintain that set of headlights in subsequent budgets, so that we continue to produce those weapons. That’s one thing we’ve seen in Ukraine, that the expenditure of those high-end weapons in conflict could be higher than we estimated,” Gilday said.
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro weighed in as well, telling reporters Jan. 11 the Navy and Pentagon are offering a combination of carrots and sticks to weapons-builders.
For example, he said, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and her office are seeking to incentivize companies building weapons needed by the U.S. but also potentially helpful in Ukraine to increase their maximum production rates.
“They had a set production rate before Ukraine occurred; now the U.S. government is asking them to increase their production rates,” he said. “There’s a desire on the part of those companies to do that in a responsible fashion.”
Del Toro too said the pandemic and supply chain challenges are no longer acceptable excuses for mission delivery dates.
“If they’re having a problem set on their side, I don’t want to just hear about it at the final hour,” he said. “I want to hear about it as these problems develop, and if we’re the cause of some of these problems, then fine, let’s talk about them and let’s try to fix them early on so we can deliver that on time.”
Del Toro said the solution can’t simply be “us throwing money at industry.”
“The money that we do make available for workforce development has to be carefully laid out,” he continued. “We pay attention to how the money is actually being spent to ensure that it’s being spent effectively, efficiently, there are metrics and data that actually support, hopefully, the results that get returned on that investment.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20140907055226/https://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50/2014/victoria-nuland-47.html
Robert Kagan & Victoria Nuland
Senior fellow, Brookings Institution; assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs
THE ULTIMATE AMERICAN POWER COUPLE.
Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan fell in love “talking about democracy and the role of America in the world” on one of their first dates. It’s a shared passion that hasn’t faded over time.
It was just two years ago that President Obama was gushing to aides about an essay that Kagan, a historian and author, wrote about the myth of American decline—a theme Obama echoed in his State of the Union that January. This year, Kagan’s sprawling New Republic essay, “Superpowers Don’t Get to Retire,” insisted on America’s enduring responsibility to shape the world order—and issued a direct challenge to a president who has summarized his own foreign-policy doctrine with a minimalist “don’t-do-stupid-s—t” directive. Obama promptly invited Kagan in for a West Wing consult, but it was also clear that Kagan had helped rouse the president’s Republican critics, who have been increasingly adopting Kagan’s argument that just because it’s been a decade of wearying war in Iraq and Afghanistan doesn’t mean America can roll up its superpower carpet and stay home when new crises, from Iraq to Russia to Syria, beckon.
Nuland, overseeing European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department, has been a strong advocate of the engaged approach her husband favors as a crisis with Russia has unfolded on her diplomatic turf this year. The point was made, rather sensationally, in February, when a leaked audio recording of her F-bomb-laden diatribe about the fecklessness of the European Union, which she accused of not exactly playing a constructive role trying to end the growing conflict in Ukraine, appeared on the Internet. Nuland, a career Foreign Service officer, has been an impassioned advocate for democracy-building in Eastern Europe, and while she got pushback from European counterparts over her “f—k the EU” comment, the United States has been leading the effort to impose sanctions on Russia since President Vladimir Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and waged a proxy war in the country’s east—dragging a reluctant Europe along pretty much every step of the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwin_B._Nuland
Nuland was born Shepsel Ber Nudelman in The Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1930, to immigrant Ukrainian Jewish parents, Meyer Nudelman (a garment repairman) (1889-1958) and Vitsche Lutsky (1893-1941).
Although raised in a traditional Orthodox Jewish home, he came to consider himself agnostic, but continued to attend synagogue. As a Jew, he witnessed anti-Semitic discrimination against his cousin and changed his name when he applied to college to ensure admittance.
Nuland was a graduate of The Bronx High School of Science, New York University and Yale School of Medicine, where he obtained his M.D. degree and also completed a residency in surgery.
At the time of his death, he was living in Connecticut with his second wife, Sarah Nuland (née Peterson). He had four children, two from each marriage. His daughter Victoria Nuland, a career foreign service officer and the former U.S. ambassador to NATO and former spokesperson for the Department of State, was appointed Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in September 2013.
Dr. Nuland avowed a "unique relationship" with death. The 1994 National Book Award for nonfiction was granted to his How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter.
In a 2001 TED talk, which was released in October 2007, Nuland spoke of his severe depression and obsessive thoughts in the early 1970s, probably caused by his difficult childhood and the dissolution of his first marriage. As drug therapy remained ineffective, a lobotomy was suggested, but his treating resident suggested electroshock therapy instead, which led to his recovery. Twelve years after the talk, TED's Curator, Chris Anderson, recalled that Nuland's talk "remains one of the most powerful moments in the conference’s history."
Nuland was also one of the featured lecturers at One Day University.
In 2005, Nuland produced a series of lectures for the Teaching Company's The Great Courses on the history of Western medicine titled Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography.
Nuland died on March 3, 2014, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut, of prostate cancer.
>born Shepsel Ber Nudelman in The Bronx, to immigrant Ukrainian Jewish parents
Can anyone translate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arseniy_Yatsenyuk
Arseniy Yatsenyuk was described positively by Victoria Nuland, who wanted Yatsenyuk to become prime minister in the new government. On 4 February 2014, a recording of a phone call between her and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt on 28 January 2014, was published on YouTube. In their phone conversation, Nuland notified Pyatt that after the review of the three opposition candidates for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine, the US State Department concluded that Arseniy Yatsenyuk was best qualified for the job.
SpaceShipTwo disintegrated within seconds during a test flight in the Mojave desert on 31 October, after a premature repositioning of the vehicle’s twin tail wings.
The vehicle was equipped with a “feathering system” to reduce its speed and stabilize its descent on return to earth, but the NTSB found that co-pilot Michael Alsbury – who died in the crash – unlocked the feathering system before the space plane had reached the right speed during the test flight.
Alsbury unlocked the feathering system at Mach 0.92 instead of at Mach 1.4, the intended speed. At that speed, lift from the horizontal tails exceeded the feather actuator’s ability to prevent a rapid aerodynamic extension of the feather system. The feather extended rapidly without further pilot action or mechanical malfunction.
Pilot Peter Siebold, who survived a 10-mile fall back to earth, was seriously injured in the accident.
NTSB investigator Katherine Wilson suggested Alsbury might have unlocked the system too early to prevent the flight from being aborted. The feathering system had to be unlocked by Mach 1.8 at the latest, or else the flight would have been aborted.
that's cool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_R._Pyatt
>https://nypost.com/2023/01/14/jim-jordan-probe-to-zero-in-on-fbi-communications-with-twitter/
Rep. Jim Jordan probe to zero in on FBI communications with Twitter
Rep. Jim Jordan’s looming investigation into the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice will zero in on a trove of documents sent by the FBI to Twitter just hours before The Post published bombshell revelations about Hunter Biden, the lawmaker told The Post in an exclusive interview.
The 10 documents were fired off by Special Agent Elvis Chan to Twitter head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth on Oct. 13, 2020 via a one-way communications channel, Teleporter.
“Elvis Chan and Yoel Roth were doing their direct communications,” Jordan said. “It’s one of the things we want to get access to, those communications via Teleporter that took place in the run-up to the election.”
The FBI’s supposed guidance at the time was used as justification by Twitter officials to ban The Post’s exposé of Hunter Biden infamous laptop just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
Chan will likely be hauled before Congress too, he added. “Definitely one of the people we want to talk to.”
The pugnacious Ohio Republican will have a full plate this session. He is widely expected to become the chair of the new select sub-committee that will probe FBI and DOJ weaponization, in addition to his role chairing the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
As a member of the House Oversight Committee, he also expects to play a role in their separate investigation of President Biden and son Hunter.
On Friday, Jordan launched a new investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents through the Judiciary Committee, Fox News reported.
“All I know is the obvious. Clinton mishandled classified documents, Biden mishandled clarified documents and the only one who gets their home raided is President Trump,” Jordan fumed.
Jordan is planning to open his marquee select committee probe with an avalanche of FBI whistleblowers. The original roster of 14 he boasted of in November has now ballooned into “dozens” of agents who have come forward to tell their stories.
They “want to go public. It looks to us that many have already been retaliated against by the FBI,” Jordan said, saying some had been suspended or had their security clearance revoked as punishment for speaking to his office.
“One of them, his statement to our staff was that at the highest levels of the FBI, It’s rotted at its core. This is a guy who is a proud agent, doing this because he wanted to serve and now he’s saying his leadership is rotted at its core.”
Another name which Americans can expect to hear more of in 2023 is Timothy Thibault, a former assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office.
Thibault has already earned infamy for his role in allegedly undermining the bureau’s internal probe of Hunter Biden before the election.
Jordan said one his whistleblowers has fingered Thibault as a force inside the bureau looking to improperly label cases as “domestic violent extremism — to satisfy the narrative we keep hearing from Biden and this administration that half the country is fascist and racist.
“So that’s someone we will talk to,” Jordan said.
The chairman said he believes FBI Director Christopher Wray had not been honest with him during previous appearances before the committee.
“Time and time again we have heard one thing from Chris Wray and we get the Inspector General telling us something different,” said Jordan.
Jordan and his GOP allies have cited the 1975 Church Committee as a model for how their own probe might proceed. The Senate select committee led then by Idaho Democrat Frank Church was tasked with investigating deep state abuses from the intelligence community. The committee was strongly bipartisan, and included arch-conservatives like Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater and liberals like Minnesota Sen. Walter Mondale.
But Jordan conceded that his select sub-committee would probably be more partisan. He could not name a single House Democrat prepared to work with him.
New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, has already announced his opposition, likening the panel to late Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Communist-witch-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee.
“Before this committee was formed, Mr. Nadler said this was political and we’re going to fight it tooth and nail — which I find frustrating because this is truly about protecting the First Amendment,” Jordan said. “The Democrats used to care about the First Amendment and that’s frustrating for me. I hope that as we move through this that they will have a change of heart and work with us.”
While the Church Committee resulted in sweeping reforms, like an Executive Order from late President Gerald Ford banning political assassinations abroad, Jordan will likely have to accept more modest outcomes.
“We will be looking at some legislative changes that need to be made that would better safeguard Americans’ liberties,” he said, suggesting that revoking security clearances for feds no longer in active service would be a good start. Jordan pointedly fingered the 51 former intelligence officials who falsely branded The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden as Russian disinformation.
Jordan continued: “My guess is those 51 former intelligence officials who signed that document that became the predicate for all the mischief and was used to tell Big Tech to be on the lookout for certain information. My guess is probably all 51 of those people still have security clearance. Well why is that?”
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect the vaccinated
https://pagesix.com/2022/11/09/britney-spears-im-not-sure-i-was-that-present-at-my-wedding/
The pop star said “I do” to Asghari, 28, in June in front of a star-studded lineup of pals including Madonna, Paris Hilton, Drew Barrymore and Donatella Versace.
>senior sergeant has taken his own life on Friday 13
>The jabbed will appear different to the targeting systems of the drones and robodogs.
you have [] seconds to comply
Operation Freedom Tehran
>Tehran
>Madonna is a man.
https://frankmagliochetti.com/?s=medical-3d-printing
Advancements in Medical 3D Printing
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been around since the 1980s, when Chuck Hull patented the mechanical process of printing successive layers of material to create objects. Known as stereolithography or additive manufacturing, the process quickly spread beyond industry into a number of sectors, including medicine.
A 3D printer is similar to a standard computer printer except that, instead of ink, liquid plastic, metal, polyvinyl alcohol, and other materials flow through its print nozzles. 3D printers are unique in that the process can create three-dimensional solid-state objects made from a variety of materials. Printed objects can be as simple or as intricate as needed by the designer without requiring extra steps in the manufacturing process.
In 1999, surgeons grew a human bladder by layering human bladder cells onto 3D printed scaffold then later transplanted the bladder into the patient that donated the cells. In 2002, scientists used bio-ink replicating kidney tissue to print a functioning kidney.
There have been several major advancements since the earliest days of medical 3D printing. While it is still not possible to print out an entire organ suitable for transplant, it is possible to use three-dimensional printing to create scaffold for growing organs, grow tissues for laboratory testing, make skin grafts for burn victims, print sheets of cardiac tissue that beats like a heart, and more.
State of the Art Medical 3D Printing
Scientists from Harvard University recently made the first 3D printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing, which allows researchers to collect reliable data during laboratory studies. These organs-on-chips, also known as microphysiological systems, closely match the properties of a specific disease or individual patient cells suitable for use in the laboratory. These chips simplify data acquisition and allow researchers to change and customize the study design system, opening new avenues for in vitro tissue engineering, toxicology and drug screening research.
Other researchers use direct laser writing to shape and form 3D printed undifferentiated stem cells to create complex 3D structures for various biomedical applications. Another company recently released a realistic-feeling 3D printed arm modelstudents can use to learn how to suture skin. The company, San Draw, had previously released a 3D printed arm model suitable for practicing injections. The 3D printed skin simulates the anatomy and feel of real human skin to improve student training.
3D printing presents nearly unlimited potential in the production of surgical instruments, including forceps, hemostats, scalpel handles, clamps, and even surgical smoke evacuators. 3D printed surgical tools come out of the printer completely sterile and ready to use, saving both time and money in sterilization, packaging and storage. Printed tools also cost one-tenth as much as stainless steel tools. 3D printing could therefore boost surgery access in low-income areas and reduce the risk of infection in areas with limited access to sterilizers.
Researchers can print out and expose various body tissues to chemicals and other substances to study the reaction of toxins on healthy tissue. Now scientists can print out cancer cells and other types of disease cells to study how tumors grow and develop, and to evaluate the effects of various treatments on those printed cells.
Research and development of medical 3D printing will likely accelerate as scientists find new uses for the additive manufacturing process and manufacturers learn new techniques for making medical and surgical products. 3D printers will certainly become more commonplace in the surgical suite and in laboratories in the coming years.