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• Veterans Roundup: Burn Pit Legislation Picks Up Steam, Military Families Speak Out Against Dangerous Base Housing, and More

  Congress Poised to Help Veterans Exposed to ‘Burn Pits’ Over Decades of War Jennifer Steinhauer (@jestei), New York Times One of the enduring items related to our modern wars are massive burn pits on every forward operating base where garbage was simply put to the torch. Un… more

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  DoD Contracts: Solers Inc., Lockheed Martin, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, CACI, Week of 2-11-19 to 2-15-19

  2/11 NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $211,996,197 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-18-C-5105 for incorporation of remaining Baseline J7 scope for new-… more

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  Cyber Security Roundup: Cryptojackers, VFEmail Attack, Australian Parliament Hack, Espionage Charges, GandCrab

  Our cyber security roundup is brought to you each week by our friends at The CyberWire. The CyberWire Podcasts are their daily view on what’s happening in cyberspace. Each day’s podcast has a quick news summary as well as commentary from industry experts and The CyberWire’… more

• Veterans Roundup: VA Deals with Veteran Suicides at Medical Centers, Service Women Face Challenges Working with Special Forces, and More

  The Parking Lot Suicides Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, (@emily_wax) Washington Post Emily brings us a powerful story with photos from Jenn Ackerman about the 19 suicides that have occurred on Department of Veterans Affairs campuses from October 2017 to November 2018. Seven of them were… more

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  DoD Contracts: Raytheon, Bell Helicopter Textron, Parsons, Lockheed Martin, Leidos, PAE, Akima, Jacobs, Week of 2-4-19 to 2-8-19

  2/4 DEFENSE COMMISSARY AGENCY Coast Produce Co., Los Angeles, California, is being awarded an indefinite-delivery, requirements type contract to provide fresh fruits and vegetable products for commissaries located in the west areas of the continental U.S. The award amount … more