Secretary of Defense to Visit Sweden Followed by Ukraine Defense Contact Group Meeting at Ramstein Air Base, Germany
April 14, 2023 |
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III will travel to Sweden and Germany next week to meet with his counterparts and to host the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Advisories/Advisory/Article/3362482/secretary-of-defense-to-visit-sweden-followed-by-ukraine-defense-contact-group/
Department of Defense Guidance on Safeguarding Responsibilities Regarding Classified Information
April 13, 2023
A memo on the Defense Department's guidance on safeguarding responsibilities regarding classified information.
https://media.defense.gov/2023/Apr/13/2003199753/-1/-1/1/DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE-GUIDANCE-ON-SAFEGUARDING-RESPONSIBILITIES-REGARDING-CLASSIFIED-INFORMATION.PDF
Secretary of Defense Commends Actions Taken by the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation
April 13, 2023 |
I want to commend the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their swift arrest in connection with this investigation. I pledge the full support and cooperation of the Department of Defense to the DOJ’s investigation.
The Department of Defense, in close partnership with the Intelligence Community and our interagency partners, will continue to review the national security implications of this unauthorized disclosure. I want to thank the men and women of the Department’s Disclosures Task Force who have been working around the clock to assess and mitigate any damage done by these disclosures.
As Secretary of Defense, I will also not hesitate to take any additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets. Accordingly, I am directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to conduct a review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again.
Finally, I want to underscore that every U.S. service member, DoD civilian and contractor with access to classified information has a solemn legal and moral obligation to safeguard it and to report any suspicious activity or behavior.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3362443/secretary-of-defense-commends-actions-taken-by-the-department-of-justice-and-fe/
DOD Calls Document Leak 'a Criminal Act'
April 13, 2023
The U.S. government is taking the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information very seriously and is working with interagency partners and the intelligence community "to better understand the scope, scale and impact of these leaks," Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said today.
Even as Ryder was speaking in the Pentagon briefing room, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the FBI had arrested Jack Teixeira, an airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, "in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information."
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3362394/dod-calls-document-leak-a-criminal-act/
Air Force releases Global Futures Report: Joint Functions in 2040
Published April 12, 2023
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3360717/air-force-releases-global-futures-report-joint-functions-in-2040/
>Unprecedented technological advances and their widespread dissemination reshape global power dynamics on a scale not previously considered plausible.
Air Force Global Futures Report
Headquarters U.S. Air Force
Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy Integration and Requirements
AF A5/7 Air Force Futures
MARCH 2023
Joint Functions in 2040
https://www.af.mil/Portals/1/documents/2023SAF/Air_Force_Global_Futures_Report.pdf
Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
APRIL 14, 2023
https://www.census.gov/retail/sales.html
April 13, 2023
New York Air Guard Begins ’23 Support for Greenland Research
By Jaclyn Lyons, 109th Air Wing/Public Affairs
STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. - Three LC-130 “Skibirds” and 75 Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing are supporting National Science Foundation research in Greenland.
The 109th flies the largest ski-equipped aircraft in the world, capable of landing on snow and ice. They resupply American scientific research in Antarctica when it is winter in New York and in Greenland in summer.
The Airmen departed at the beginning of April in the first of five rotations of 75 to 100 Airmen and three aircraft throughout the summer support season, which ends in August.
https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/3361354/new-york-air-guard-begins-23-support-for-greenland-research/
(ORDER LIST: 598 U.S.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2023
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
22A867 EVERGLADES COLLEGE, INC., ET AL. V. CARDONA, SEC. OF ED., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/041323zr_f29g.pdf
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