Aeroscout

@aeroscouting

I'm catching callsigns you've never heard of on frequencies you can't pronounce.

8:10 PM CST · Feb 8, 2025 · 1,096 Views

https://x.com/aeroscouting/status/1888410097199755503

Aviation and Naval Assets

@AirAssets

Did we get a high value target in Mexico? US Department of Justice headed west toward Mexico from Miami

#HVT #DOJ #DepartmentOfJustice

5:43 PM CST · Feb 8, 2025 · 523 Views

https://x.com/AirAssets/status/1888373144341389425

Out of Miami, N2033 United States Department of Justice Raytheon/Hawker 125-800A spent and hour and a half on the ground in Guadalajara. Looks like next stop is Mexico City.

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https://planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N2033/432894

Commissioner for Patents Takes ‘Fork in the Road’ and Resigns from USPTO

Gene Quinn

February 6, 2025, 07:15 PM UPDATED Friday, February 7 @ 1:41pm ET.

IPWatchdog has learned that Commissioner for Patents Vaishali Udupa has notified the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that she is resigning effective immediately. Udupa has submitted her resignation in order to take advantage of the deferred resignation program —known as Fork in the Road— offered by President Donald J. Trump to federal workers in an email on January 28, 2025.

The deferred resignation program, widely understood as an attempt to shrink the size of the federal government workforce, was first announced in an email to federal employees on January 28, 2025. The program originally required federal employees to elect by 11:59pm today, February 6, 2025, whether they wanted to accept what is in effect an eight-month severance package that would allow them to receive full pay and full benefits without requiring the performance of any work. However, earlier in the day today the United States Federal District Court of Massachusetts entered an order that extended the deadline until at least Monday, February 10, 2025. A hearing on the legality of the government’s offer is scheduled for Monday, February 10. The offer for eight-months severance is being challenged by several government unions as arbitrary and unlawful.

Udupa became Commissioner for Patents in January 2023, spending just over 2 years in the position. Prior to joining the USPTO she was head of litigation for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where she was responsible for heading HPE’s intellectual property litigation and formulating case strategies. Udupa replaced Acting Commissioner for Patents Andrew Faile, who served as Acting Commissioner after the retirement of Drew Hirshfeld, who was Commissioner for Patents from 2015 until his retirement from the Office in June 2022.

Well-known within the patent community as an advocate for diversity , Udupa joined the USPTO as a relative outsider. While regarded as an excellent trial attorney, she did not have any meaningful prosecution experience, which reportedly caused tensions at times within the Office. The Commissioner for Patents is effectively the head of the patent operation at the Office and responsible for examiners and examination policy, and has historically been a career senior executive employee who has typically risen through the ranks at the Office, often starting out as an examiner.

Deputy Commissioner Valencia Martin Wallace will immediately assume the role of Acting Commissioner for Patents. Wallace, who is well liked and highly respected within the Office, has spent nearly three full decades working for the USPTO. She has served in multiple roles including as Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality and Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations. Wallace holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University and she earned her JD from The George Washington University School of Law. She also holds a certificate in Advanced Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Administration.

UPDATED Friday, February 7 @ 1:41pm ET. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Udupa was Commissioner for 18-months, and inaccurately identified the retirement date of Drew Hirshfeld.

https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/02/06/commissioner-for-patents-takes-fork-in-the-road-and-resigns-from-uspto/id=185752/

StevenWMosher

@StevenWMosher

The CCP won the Chinese Civil War in the same way, by planting spies in key roles in Chiang Kai-shek's army.

Nationalist General Fu Zuoyi lost battles because his secret code officer, General Deng, was a CCP spy, telegraphing his moves to Mao.

Taiwan needs to execute these spies

11:12 PM CST · Feb 7, 2025 · 52.2K Views

https://x.com/StevenWMosher/status/1888093627508785407

Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense

@IndoPac_Info

China is infiltrating Taiwan’s armed forces

And Taiwan is struggling to deal with the growing number of spies

Prosecutions for espionage jumped fourfold in the past four years, according to Taiwan’s National Security Bureau. And China’s infiltration is still evolving in both scope and tactics.

Two thirds of alleged spies last year were current or retired military personnel. China is also using new tactics to recruit younger collaborators.

China is targeting young soldiers through underground lending networks and online platforms. They're offered payments of $3-6,000 for military intelligence or surrender videos.

Most of the recent cases have been uncovered through internal reporting. Taiwan's defence ministry says that shows its anti-spy education is working. But a govt report says Chinese intelligence made over 1,700 online recruitment attempts in 2.5 years. It is hard for Taiwan to keep up.

In 2021 a retired Taiwanese general named Kao An-kuo made a video of himself dressed in camouflage, calling on Taiwan’s armed forces to overthrow the island’s government. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (dpp) was full of “ethnic traitors” who were selling Taiwan out to America, he said, and obstructing the Chinese nation’s great rejuvenation. At that time it drew little attention.

Mr Kao was the ageing leader of a fringe pro-unification group with scarce support in Taiwanese society. But in January Mr Kao, who is now 80, was indicted for military espionage.

Prosecutors allege that he and five others created an armed group to work with China’s armed forces towards an invasion of Taiwan.

They were accused of using drones to track military drills, reporting training results to China and trying to recruit more collaborators.

10:54 PM CST · Feb 7, 2025 · 96.1K Views

https://x.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1888088986431930573

Mark Lewis

@Maga4liberty

💥Little Known Fact💥

Under the original Panama Canal Treaty, the US reserves the right to take back control if neutrality is threatened.

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12:29 PM CST · Jan 31, 2025 · 36.3K Views

https://x.com/Maga4liberty/status/1885394886863495409

>>22543365

pitot heat failure would do it