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| BASE Jumping Video: ProBASE Track Race 2012 TV Posted: 16 Jul 2012 03:10 AM PDT http://vimeo.com/channels/81637/45798852 ProBASE Track Race 2012 TV Second season event of the 2012 ProBASE World Cup BASE Jumping and Wingsuit racing competition series. The event takes places at Kjerag in southern Norway, one of the Mekkas of the sport. Extremely high skill level displayed by this years participating athletes at this competition porpells the series onto a whole new level. Be there!! Cast: ProBASE TV Tags: BASE Jump competition series, wingsuit racing league, wingsuit competition, probase world cup, base jump world cup, professional base jumping and professional wingsuit racing More... by Vimeo Speed Riding Videos This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| BASE Jumping Video: Wingsuit - Chamonix - Le Brevent - Vampire 4 Posted: 16 Jul 2012 02:34 AM PDT http://vimeo.com/channels/81637/45569466 Wingsuit - Chamonix - Le Brevent - Vampire 4 Saut depuis le Brévent à Chamonix. Plus d'infos (FR): rochmalnuit.com/course.php?L=fr&Id=433 More infos (EN): rochmalnuit.com/course.php?L=en&Id=433 Cast: Roch Malnuit Tags: Wingsuit, Base Jump, Brévent, Chamonix, Mt Blanc and Roch Malnuit More... by Vimeo Speed Riding Videos This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Moab Utah: Current Conditions : 74.1F, Mostly Cloudy - 2:39 AM MDT Jul. 16 Posted: 16 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT Temperature: 74.1°F | Humidity: 51% | Pressure: 29.88in (Rising) | Conditions: Mostly Cloudy | Wind Direction: WNW | Wind Speed: 2.0mph More... |
| Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France: Current Conditions : 1C, Clear - 10:00 AM CEST Jul. 16 Posted: 16 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT Temperature: 1°C | Humidity: 80% | Pressure: hPa (Rising) | Conditions: Clear | Wind Direction: East | Wind Speed: 28km/h More... |
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| Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: Current Conditions : 15.0C, Scattered Clouds - 10:16 AM C Posted: 16 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT Temperature: 15.0°C | Humidity: 72% | Pressure: 1029hPa (Rising) | Conditions: Scattered Clouds | Wind Direction: NW | Wind Speed: 1.6km/h More... |
| Speedriding Video: Cedar Creek ORV Trails - Muskegon, Michigan: Part 5 Posted: 15 Jul 2012 03:25 PM PDT Cedar Creek ORV Trails - Muskegon, Michigan: Part 5 by Youtube Speed Riding |
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| Arco, Italy: Current weather: Patchy rain nearby Posted: 15 Jul 2012 01:36 PM PDT |
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| Speedriding Video: Cedar Creek ORV Trails - Muskegon, Michingan: Part 4 Posted: 15 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT Cedar Creek ORV Trails - Muskegon, Michingan: Part 4 by Youtube Speed Riding |
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| King Air 350 Grows Into ISR Mission Posted: 15 Jul 2012 06:55 AM PDT King Air 350 Grows Into ISR Mission FARNBOROUGH, England — It's tough to walk into the Hawker Beechcraft chalet here at the Farnborough International Airshow and not think about the first days of the U.S. Air Force's Liberty Program when engineers gutted extravagant King Air 350s to install high tech spy sensors and ship them to Iraq per former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' immediate request. Stories of engineers ripping out wine refrigerators to make room for signals intelligence sensors still resonate. Much like the military demand for turbo props mounted with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors, Hawker Beechcraft has grown over the past five years. The King Air 350s are now a regular on Afghanistan flightlines as ground commanders keep requesting low profile, manned aircraft for ISR missions. It's not only combat missions either. Federal agencies have seen the success the military has had and requested even more ISR turbo props for search and rescue missions and to combat pirates, drugs and illegal immigration. "Looking only at the military market would be a narrow view," said Jay Gibson, Hawker Beechcraft's vice president for Special Missions. "This whole scene to include the commercial market is exploding." With that popularity, though, has come the increase in competition. However, Gibson is confident Hawker Beechcraft's record will speak for itself as their planes have flown thousands of missions for the U.S. Air Force over Iraq and Afghanistan over the past three years. One of the toughest parts of the ISR business is keeping up with the technology of the sensors, Gibson said. There is a constant demand for more amp power to run the sensors and sensor companies constantly want to change the location on the turbo props depending on the type and size of the sensor. With the advance of technology, many of the sensors have shrunk meaning the turbo prop can sometimes carry more depending on the power requirements. Gibson is not worried about the rise in dependence on unmanned aerial vehicles for ISR missions. He forsees the need for a mix of the manned and unmanned aircraft. Defense analysts have said air forces will have to revert back to manned aircraft in denied airspaces making Gibson's King Air's more valuable. "Each have their role as each have their benefits and limitations," Gibson said. "I'm confident manned ISR will always be there." Read more: http://defensetech.org/2012/07/13/ki...#ixzz20hQ5NF1d Defense.org |
| An unsettling amount of military outsourcing Posted: 15 Jul 2012 06:51 AM PDT An unsettling amount of military outsourcing By Walter Pincus The Washington Post Published: July 10, 2012 WASHINGTON — Six U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device hit their vehicle Sunday. The IED is the Taliban's most dangerous weapon. Combating those deadly devices remains a challenge that requires the best skills U.S. intelligence and military services can muster — and not just buy. It's not a job that's easily outsourced. But on June 29, the Army awarded a contract for counterinsurgency targeting, intelligence fusion and operations support in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Over three years, that contract could be worth more than $176 million. The contractor "will support and augment, not replace government military and civilian personnel … by integrating contract employees based on their skill sets, into military/civilian intelligence operations," according to the work statement. That means that some contracting personnel will work from the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) in Charlottesville, Va., or from Central Command in Tampa, or from Iraq or Afghanistan. The personnel will include "novice," "senior," and "senior principal" IED and insurgent-network analysts. Also requested are weapons technical intelligence analysts, a collection-requirements manager, logistics assistants, data-entry analysts and operations-support officers. Harding Security Associates of McLean, Va., won the contract. Retired Maj. Gen. Robert A. Harding founded the company. He left the service in 2001 as the Army's Deputy G2 (Intelligence), and earlier was head of operations at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Advertisement Harding sold the company in June 2009 to a new firm, Six3 Systems, which still uses the Harding Security Associates name. The top two Six3 officers have government roots. President Robert Coleman served in the National Security Council's Crisis Management Center in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. Michael Zembrzuski, executive vice president, is a 20-year Army intelligence veteran who as a lieutenant colonel in 2002 took over the Antiterrorism Operations Intelligence Cell at the Pentagon. There's another connection worth noting. In March 2006, Harding Security signed a three-year mentor-protege agreement with SAIC, a $10 billion defense contractor. Under this Pentagon program, the mentor firm is reimbursed for expenses used to help develop the smaller protege firm's capabilities. The mentor firm can also directly award the protege subcontracts. SAIC has held an Army NGIC contract similar to the one just awarded to Harding. On April 13, the Army announced its intention to "extend the period of [its] performance" for four more months. Then, apparently, Harding will take over. In January, SAIC won a contract to support the Pentagon's overall counter-IED agency, the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) and its Counter-IED Operations/Intelligence Integration Center (COIC). That potentially five-year contract could reach $900 million if all options are exercised, according to SAIC. That is not SAIC's only counter-IED contract. It also has one from the Marine Corps that could bring up to $500 million through 2014. Bet your head is spinning right about now. There are so many deals and dollars flying about. Congress has taken notice of this counter-IED, counterinsurgency contracting. It tried to rein in some of the spending in the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill. For example, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, focused on JIEDDO's "duplication of effort with the military services, excessive contractor support costs, and organizational inefficiencies." His committee reduced next year's spending by $200 million, although that still left $1.4 billion for efforts to reduce the IED threat. Congress should go further. Why does the Army continue to hire contractors to carry out counterinsurgency intelligence and counter-IED work? Is it related to the reduction in troop levels? It appears that prime contractors such as SAIC and Harding/Six3 are turning to subcontractors who are former military personnel. As subcontractors, they almost always do the same job they did while in the service, just at higher pay. On its Web site, Six3 is seeking all-source analysts for its counter-IED targeting program. Applicants must have top secret/SCI (sensitive compartmented information) clearances, at least five years of military service and "especially" deployment in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Vancro, a Washington-based company, notes on its Web website that it was "originally founded by veterans of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom" in May 2009 and specializes in counter-IED work. Vancro, too, is advertising for a senior IED and insurgent-network analyst with five years of military service and top secret/SCI clearances who will work in Charlottesville with the possibility of travel and the ability to coordinate with "other NGIC offices." There's something unsettling about so much outsourcing — however necessary some of it may be. When it comes to IEDs and the lives of our people, we need the best and brightest. Period. An unsettling amount of military outsourcing - U.S. - Stripes another EX-somebody making money from the war... |
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