A contractor tipped off the #Pentagon that a 48-year-old engineer at Arnold #USAirForce Base in #Tennessee had taken home various government radio technologies.
In addition to $90K in #military comms equipment, investigators allegedly found a computer running software containing "the entire [base's] communications system," plus a USB drive with admin passwords and system keys for the Air Education and Training Command #AETC radio network. 17 #USAF facilities affected.
After having served military since 1998 in both #Army and #USAF, I'm retiring this Fall. I've noticed a lot of full circle moments in my life this year. One, unfortunate but very necessary, has been the current strike you've seen/read about.
The sliver in my career between Army and USAF, I was a #UnionPlumber up in Seattle. 15yrs ago was the last SAG strike. I put together a video that was presented at our Union Hall for solidarity.
Fly north of Chicago and west of Kenosha and you might just see this military scar. Today it is the Richard Bong State Recreation Area, but it started life as Bong AFB which was never completed. No military plane landed there and now it hosts only RC aircraft and hikers.
John Jason has a great article about it if you want to dive in a bit deeper: https://rantincsharp.medium.com/the-base-that-never-was-d89aff39a936
The F35C told a press conference: “Please come back to base or just let us know you’re ok. You’re not in any trouble, and not even … er … grounded. We’ve been through some tough times I know, but we know you’re a fighter. You’re worth $100 million to us.” #USAF#F35
Today in AI training and alignment adventures, a very paperclip-maximizing anecdote from a US Air Force AI simulation. "We trained the system – ‘don’t kill the operator.' So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower."
Going to try watching old TV from 2009 instead of checking for updates on the escalating air war over the Middle East right now.
Thank you to the soldiers intercepting attacks.
May all the people in harms way, in and out of uniform, be safe, any injured be healed and comforted. May world leaders trying to convince themselves and each other to decrease the violence succeed.
There is a significant number of Tanker Aircraft from US flying in the European direction.
This may be routine "getting there by Monday" activity, but there may be more (not visible) tankers and other combat aircraft en route.
Lawyer part of brain: That’s not OSHA compliant, where’s the fall protection? Does OSHA apply to armed forces? Doesn’t the military have immunity from personal injury cases in some circumstances? Let me just do some quick resea….
Visit last week to the National Museum of the US Air Force - the most poorly lit, higgledy-piggledy jumble sale of nationally important relics. I started trying to photograph aeroplanes and in the end just went for the details. #Dayton#Museum#Aeroplane#Aircraft#USAF#USAirForce
Just another day at the office for #USAF 9th Reconnaissance Wing. Drone and U-2 pilots based at Beale AFB get their training hours in Talon T-38s. This one cruised up the spine of the #Sierra, over #Yosemite and Kirkwood, looped #LakeTahoe, and buzzed my neighborhood on their way home.
Windows in the Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. August 1968. Designed by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, the chapel has been closed for renovation since 2019.
"Es war eine einzigartige Herausforderung: Beim Finale des Hack-a-Sat-Wettbewerbs am 11. und 12. August in Las Vegas ging es für fünf internationale Teams darum, die Kontrolle über einen um die Erde kreisenden Satelliten zu übernehmen. .. Information der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg."
🎧 #DCDiary, 1987 | "Fascinated" played one night in the video bar at #Badlands @ DuPont Circle as a movie-star handsome, salt-n-pepper #USAF pilot and I played eyesies across the room. He made the first move, bless him.
"We had a good run" for a few months before he was transferred.
A #USAF official who was quoted saying the Air Force conducted a simulated test where an AI drone killed its human operator is now saying he “misspoke” and that the Air Force never ran this kind of test, in a computer simulation or otherwise.
The Air Force's AI chief also says the remarks were merely "a hypothetical 'thought experiment' from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation.” (Oops!)
Air Force funds 'blended wing body' plane design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight (www.popsci.com)
Although funded by the military, this design could one day be applied to commercial flight as well.
OC Two USAF V-22s flying toward a cloud