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Nov 25, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Sydney Freedberg

WASHINGTON — The Army’s artificial intelligence accelerator, Project Linchpin, is working with open source software firm Red Hat to unveil an initial version of its AI development architecture as early as next week, product lead Bharat Patel said. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles

Nov 22, 2024 | icij.org | Sydney Freedberg |Agustin Armendariz |Tanya Kozyreva |Matei Rosca

Western oil giants had a cash bonanza in their sights when they gathered in the small town of Farnborough, southwest of London, in October 2012. They were rushing to exploit one of the world’s richest and deepest oil fields: the 156-square-mile Tengiz reservoir in western Kazakhstan, more than four times the size of Paris and a mile deep, under a desert on the remote north coast of the Caspian Sea. Time was slipping by on the oil executives’ exclusive 40-year rights to develop the field.

Nov 22, 2024 | icij.org | Sydney Freedberg |Agustin Armendariz |Tanya Kozyreva |Thomas Rowley

On a late August afternoon in 2021 the mooring master made a frantic call to a dispatcher at Russia’s largest port, Novorossiysk. “Stop! Stop! Stop loading tanker Minerva Symphony!” he shouted. But the damage had already been done. A floating platform used to load oil onto the Greek tanker had malfunctioned, unleashing a six-foot-high jet of oil into the Black Sea, three miles off the Russian coast.

Nov 16, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Sydney Freedberg

Navy's SLCM-N Needs ‘An Entirely New Industrial Base' SLCM-N was a priority of the first Trump Administration that Biden tried and failed to cancel. Now Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe has to figure out how to actually build it — without compromising ballistic missile modernization or new hypersonics. Read Full Article »

Jul 1, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Sydney Freedberg