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  • A secretive Pentagon program that started on Trump’s last day in office just ended. The mystery has not

    09/11/2021 8:38:33 AM PDT · by BusterDog · 14 replies
    WaPo via Seattle Times ^ | Sep 10, 2021 | Craig Timberg
    WASHINGTON — A Pentagon program that delegated management of a huge swath of the internet to a Florida company in January — just minutes before President Donald Trump left office — has ended as mysteriously as it began, with the Defense Department this week retaking control of 175 million IP addresses. The program had drawn scrutiny because of its unusual timing, starting amid a politically charged changeover of federal power, and because of its enormous scale. At its peak, the company, Global Resource Systems, controlled almost 6% of a section of the internet called IPv4. The IP addresses had been...
  • Navy to name next ship after late Rep. John Murtha

    04/23/2010 7:40:22 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 110 replies · 1,862+ views
    Associated Press ^ | April 23, 2010
    JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- The Navy is naming its next amphibious ship after the late western Pennsylvania congressman John Murtha. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus made the announcement Friday at the Johnstown-Cambria County Airport. Murtha's family and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were in attendance.