Northrop Grumman Systems has been awarded a $22 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide services for Navy’s newest unmanned helicopters. San Diego-based company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. The deal, which was a modification to a previous contract, exercises options to procure software and engineering sustainment services, software support, logistics, cyber security and program related engineering in support of MQ-8 Fire […]
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Northrop Grumman Systems has been awarded a $22 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide services for Navy’s newest unmanned helicopters. San Diego-based company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. The deal, which was a modification to a previous contract, exercises options to procure software and engineering sustainment services, software support, logistics, cyber security and program related engineering in support of MQ-8 Fire […]
Prison Strikers Suspend Starvation, Continue Work Strike By Oakland Abolition and Solidarity. December 4, 2020 Prison Strikers Suspend Starvation, Continue Work Strike2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/satf-e1607088764765.jpg200px200px Above photo: Officer Vickjord walks the floor of the 4B SHU at Corcoran State Prison. The prison started accepting inmates in 1988. Grant Slater/KPCC. Corcoran, CA – CDCr’s negligent and careless response to the COVID-19 outbreak at CSATF has now killed at least three […]
Wet’suwet’en Call On Province To Close Pipeline Work Camps By Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee. December 4, 2020 Wet’suwet’en Call On Province To Close Pipeline Work Camps2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/mancamp-e1607089599886.jpg200px200px Above photo: Work camps like this one at the LNG project in Kitimat should be shut down to protect Indigenous communities from COVID-19 risks, say Wet’suwet’en chiefs. LNG Canada. Female chiefs say COVID-19 risk means work on oil and […]
New Zealand Is Infusing Policing With A Social Work Philosophy By Serena Solomon, Reasons to be Cheerful. December 1, 2020 New Zealand Is Infusing Policing With A Social Work Philosophy2020-12-012020-12-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/nzed.png200px200px Above photo: Chen Kehan/Flickr. Nimble, culturally nuanced and collaborative, this Māori-led response gets to the roots of family violence. A call for help from domestic or family violence is made on average every four minutes in New Zealand, […]
I’m a remote copywriter traveling the world, so finding a reliable backpack is vital for me. I need a backpack that’s versatile and durable enough to carry my laptop and other tech gear, whether I’m walking through London in the pouring rain or plodding through the sand on a hot baking day in a beach town in Mexico. While I used to make do with a […]
While the vessel was docked in Georgia, United States for maintenance. An officer reportedly staggered onto the nuclear-armed submarine drunk holding a bag of leftover barbecue chicken. A Royal Navy officer has been sent home from the US and placed under investigation after reporting to take command of a submarine’s Trident nuclear missiles while drunk, the Scottish Sun reported. Lt Cdr Len Louw has now been placed under […]
Red lips, scintillating saris, hair tied up with flowers and chiming bangles, or skimpy dresses paired with heels; sought after at night but ostracized by day. This is the imagery the term sex worker arouses in India. Though legal, sex workers are an outcast community beyond the purvey of government welfare schemes. In a breakthrough decision, sex workers in India have now been listed by the […]
Technical workers, attached to Lufthansa, at Germany’s Hamburg Airport have declined to service the state plane of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, accusing him of “giving the order to shoot at demonstrators in Belarus.” In a Facebook post on the page of the Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft workers union, a statement explained that technicians for Lufthansa Technik would not service the presidential Boeing 737 as an act of “international […]
On Sunday, Ankara announced that its Oruc Reis research ship would return to disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean Sea for more surveying work. Greece, Germany and France slammed the decision, with Berlin calling on Turkey to refrain from any “provocations,” and Athens accusing Ankara of breaking its commitments. The United States voiced its displeasure over Turkey’s decision to return the Oruc Reis to disputed waters […]
Google Contractor Moving Work From Pittsburgh To Poland To Bust Union By Mike Elk, Payday Report. October 9, 2020 Google Contractor Moving Work From Pittsburgh To Poland To Bust Union2020-10-092020-10-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/googlephoto.jpg200px200px Pittsburgh, PA -Today the NLRB charged Google Contractor HCL with moving work from Pittsburgh to Poland, citing that the move was a way to bust the newly formed Pittsburgh Association of Tech Professionals. The NLRB Region 6, […]
A week after the heated debate with Biden, who raised allegations of Trump’s ties with Moscow that have long been proven false, POTUS ordered the release of all documents related to the so-called Russiagate in a bid to end the longstanding “hoax”. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has commented on recent allegations by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who accused Trump of being “Putin’s puppy” during the […]
Japan is currently holding a QUAD foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo, which focuses on discussing alleged threats posed by China and its growing presence in the Indo-Pacific region. The four countries involved in QUAD are the US, Japan, India, and Australia. India and the United States have reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring stability in the Indo-Pacific region, which they claim has been disrupted due to China’s […]
For 32 years, Glynndana Shevlin worked at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California, and through 29 of them, her spot was a concierge club called the E-Ticket Lounge. From 2 p.m. to 10:30 at night, Shevlin hosted guests on the 11th floor of a wing known as the Adventure Tower, serving continental breakfasts, chips and salsa, appetizers, and drinks. As a sommelier, she specialized in wine. […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT US President Donald Trump, who has Covid-19, is to be taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday afternoon in his helicopter as a precautionary measure, the White House said Friday. He have to undergo tests and will remain there for a ‘few days’ on advice of doctors, the White House told reporters. The president, who tested positive […]
US President Donald Trump, who has Covid-19, is to be taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday afternoon in his helicopter as a precautionary measure, the White House said Friday. He have to undergo tests and will remain there for a ‘few days’ on advice of doctors, the White House told reporters. The president, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night, has flown […]
Armenia said on Friday it’s ready to negotiate an end to hostilities with Azerbaijan, but also prepared to continue fighting. Yerevan welcomed the condemnation of the violence in Nagorno-Karabakh by Russia, France, and the US. The OSCE Minsk group – set up in 1992 and co-chaired by Paris, Moscow and Washington – which has long mediated in the three decade conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, condemned on Thursday the […]
Textron Systems, an aerospace and defense development and manufacturing unit of the Textron conglomerate, has been awarded a contract to support work on the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missile system. According to a company statement, this scope of work is part of a larger award by the U.S. Air Force to prime contractor Northrop Grumman. The GBSD system is designed to provide a modern, reliable and […]
A Chinese video site copycat raised $2.1 million via an initial exchange offering in August 2019 – but it appears this last resort wasn’t enough to save the company from falling apart. On Sept. 24, the Shanghai Yangpu District Court disclosed an Aug. 31 ruling that video streaming company Dilidili has infringed the trademark of Nasdaq-listed Bilibili and must pay a fine of nearly $500,000. The […]
A growing force in the crypto space, Visa says it’s getting more and more industry firms interested in payments partnerships. Source link
On Monday, the Trump administration announced that it was imposing “UN” sanctions on the Iranian Defence Ministry and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for what Washington called aiding Tehran’s weapons programmes. Iranian analyst Mani Mehrabi has explained what’s behind the failure of the US to gain international support for its Iran policy. “Our actions today are a warning that should be heard worldwide: No matter who you […]
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has argued that the EU should focus on strengthening its external borders and fighting human smugglers, rather than reviving a scheme that would force member states to settle refugees. The EU is set to roll out a new asylum policy proposal on Wednesday. However, the return of mandatory quotas for accepting migrants is doomed to fail, Kurz said. “We find that the […]
This week Kraken Financial became the first crypto company to receive a banking charter under Wyoming’s Special Purpose Depository Institution statute. Join CEO David Kinitsky for a look at what it all means and how it’ll work with hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy. In the early days of Bitcoin, there were no rules, or at least none that people understood. The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/11/1080490475_49:0:1319:714_1200x675_80_0_0_3882b53aad4fbe9ca60079f9c4d8b61f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202009181080490061-its-bed-time-mum-labrador-keeps-a-woman-from-returning-to-work/ Labrador Retrievers are commonly known for their intelligence and their lovability, making them an excellent family companion. An adorable video of a labrador trying to persuade its owner to stop working at night and have a rest is going viral on social media. In the video, a woman is working on her laptop and the labrador is seen tugging […]
In his new book No Rules Rules, Reed Hastings attributes Netflix’s success to the unorthodox office culture at the company. Hastings is pictured at Summit LA17 in Los Angeles in 2017. Amy Harris/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Amy Harris/Invision/AP In his new book No Rules Rules, Reed Hastings attributes Netflix’s success to the unorthodox office culture at the company. Hastings is pictured at Summit LA17 in […]
Under development by the LNP/BP Standards Association, the RGB protocol entered beta in June. The second layer network promises to bring smart contracts and tokenized assets to Bitcoin with a Lightning Network-esque technical design. RGB could be used to issue tokenize securities and nonfungible tokens (NFT), and to offer a more private means of stablecoin issuance and transfer. Smart contracts and Bitcoin. These technical phenomena are […]
In January, Stephanie Trunzo’s vacation home on Daufuskie Island in South Carolina was completed. They planned to go down during their 13-year-old daughter’s spring break but went in March as the world started shutting down. Stephanie, an Oracle executive, could work remotely, her husband is retired. The family have since spent little time in their primary residence in North Carolina. They’re loving island life. “A typical […]
High Speed 2 will create tens of thousands of jobs across the country, but faces opposition from residents and environmentalists who say it will destroy natural habitats in addition to the hundreds of homes and business premises that will be demolished. Diggers have moved in to start work on the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link from London to the north of England today, drawing both […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/03/1080360670_0:0:1201:676_1200x675_80_0_0_408e5812b5a8a4f38e9d7146ee3c6cdb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009031080360701-teamwork-makes-the-dream-work-smart-ape-helps-human-friend/ We all need a little bit of help from our friends sometimes. Luckily, our animal pals are there to lend a helping hand on occasion. Footage shared on Twitter captures a chimpanzee and his human friend out on a stroll, walking hand-in-hand as the primate leads the way forward. When it is time for them to climb up to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107664/36/1076643615_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_782da5b9c1d138abdb639d0e11518c04.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202009021080352088-screen-burn-one-week-of-screen-time-at-work-equivalent-to-25-minutes-in-sun/ Researchers at Unilever, a multinational consumer goods company, have found that sitting in front of a digital screen for six hours a day for five working days is equivalent to spending 25 minutes in the midday sun without any protection. According to the company’s findings, 2 in 3 people are unaware of the effect that blue light emitted by […]
Marc P. Bernegger started his first internet company in 1999 and had two successful exits. He began working with Bitcoin in 2012, is on the board of Crypto Finance Group, Swiss Blockchain Federation and CfC St. Moritz and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Expert Network for blockchain. The recent CoinDesk opinion article “10 Reasons Quant Strategies for Crypto Fail” by Jesus Rodriguez […]
One year after Starhopper’s final flight, SpaceX’s Starship launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, continues to evolve in order to facilitate prototype development and testing. Starhopper was the first SpaceX vehicle to use its new launch facility in Boca Chica — located east of Boca Chica Village and near the beach on the Gulf of Mexico — and served as the first in-flight test article for […]
The daytime hit TV show starring Ellen DeGeneres is not seen in the best light right now, after allegations from several current and former employees emerged suggesting a “toxic work environment” and “harassment” on the set. A Warner Media investigation is said to be underway to look into details of the accusations. A former camera assistant on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” show, in an interview with […]