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Daff and MK veterans at loggerheads

Independent online (SA) 18 Nov 2018

Broken promises and alleged exploitation has left a group of military veterans feeling hopeless and ... “We admit it was a good call to get military veterans to fight poaching at sea because of the training and experience we have, but we deserve good contracts and better conditions.”....

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Exec who oversaw Google's failed babykiller projects and cozied up to Saudis quits after employee uprising

Boing Boing 17 Nov 2018

Greene said that Google would not have sought the Maven contract if company officials had anticipated the criticism from employees and that the decision was made when Google was more aggressively going after military work. Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down [Daisuke Wakabayashi/NY Times] ....

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Israel to Police European Coastlines: Protecting the Continent from Refugees?

Dissident Voice 17 Nov 2018

An Israeli private military contractor, Elbit Systems Ltd, has been awarded a contract by the so-called EU, to monitor European shores, as reported by the Palestine Chronicle ... Israel’s private defense contractor announced having won this monstrous surveillance contract, with the EU Maritime Safety Agency....

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Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian to head Google Cloud

Live Mint 17 Nov 2018

It faced a setback months later when thousands of Google employees revolted against Greene’s unit supplying the US military with artificial intelligence tools to aid in analysing drone imagery ... Google also bowed out from bidding for a $10 billion military cloud computing contract, citing its lack of certifications to handle sensitive data....

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Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

White Rock Lake Weekly 17 Nov 2018

... been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union....

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Airbus, Dassault finalising bid for early work on new fighter jet

This is Money 16 Nov 2018

One source familiar with the matter said the two companies could submit their proposal by the end of the year or early next year, paving the way for the first contract awards next year. One French military official told the International Fighter conference in Berlin this week that the two governments hoped to conclude an initial contract in January....

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Is Amazon about to turn into Lockheed-Martin? What the company’s move to Crystal City says about its future

Yahoo Daily News 16 Nov 2018

CRYSTAL CITY, VA—If the military-industrial complex of lore has an epicenter, then it is surely located at 929 Long Bridge Drive in Crystal City, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C ... While not yet a contracting powerhouse on the scale of Raytheon, Amazon has embraced the military far more closely and eagerly than its Silicon Valley peers....

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Accenture workers join tech protests of contracts with U.S. border enforcement

The Hill 16 Nov 2018

Accenture staff are circulating letter urging company leadership to end its contract with U.S. border enforcement, following reports earlier this year of harsh treatment of detained families at the U.S.-Mexican border ... service assisting military drone use and it stopped pursuing a multi-billion dollar cloud computing contract with the DOD ... .......

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Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene steps down

Venture Beat 16 Nov 2018

military with artificial intelligence tools to aid in analyzing drone imagery ... The backlash over military work prompted an internal ... Google also bowed out from bidding for a $10 billion military cloud computing contract, citing its lack of certifications to handle sensitive data....

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Google Cloud names Thomas Kurian to replace CEO Diane Greene

This is Money 16 Nov 2018

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The US economy doesn’t need more Amazon jobs. It needs higher wages.

Vox 16 Nov 2018

Bezos has made it clear that he wants Amazon to be a big player in the defense industry, and is one of several companies that submitted bids to the Pentagon for a massive $10 billion military cloud computing contract known as Project JEDI. (Competitors argue that the contract was ......

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Puerto Rico ICT Watch: Claro 5G test; military contracts

BN Americas 15 Nov 2018

América Móvil announced it will start testing 5G capabilities on the island next year. <p> <a href="https.//www.bnamericas.com/en/news/ict/puerto-rico-ict-watch-claro-5g-test-military-contracts">...continue reading</a> </p> ... ....

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Three S. Korean companies to pay some $236 million in military bid rigging case, Justice ...

Stars and Stripes 15 Nov 2018

The Defense Logistics Agency and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service are responsible for contracts with South Korean companies to supply fuel to the military bases ... “We will continue to ensure that fuel suppliers who contract with the federal government do not engage in ......