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Experts on defense innovation say the Defense Department needs to stop patronizing nontraditional companies with one-off contracts and competitions, and actually heavily invest in the technologies the Pentagon thinks will dominate the future.
DoD has talked a big game about innovation and the need to harness technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation, but experts like former John McCain staffer Chris Brose and former Defense Innovation Unit director Raj Shah say the money isn’t there to back it up.
Members of Congress want to pressure Major League Baseball to scrap plans to scale back the minor leagues, saying it would be "devastating" to clubs and communities that host them.
A bipartisan resolution, filed in the House of Representatives by Rep. Lori Trahan and other members of the Save Minor League Baseball Task Force, expresses support for the current roster of 160 minor league teams and "recognizes the unique social, economic and historic contributions that Minor League Baseball has made to American life."
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WASHINGTON ? Defense innovation experts told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that if they truly want the Department of Defense to embrace the leap-ahead technologies needed to compete, Congress must use its funding power to make major players out of small, disruptive tech firms.
The Senate's travesty of a trial for Trump, the tragedy of Kobe Bryant's death, a series of earthquakes and volcanos, Super Bowl-winning Chiefs and World Series-cheating Astros, Australia ablaze, the coronavirus, and the Doomsday Clock; they've all dominated our attention for weeks.
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As President Trump gave his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the partisan divide was clear.
Republicans applauded when Trump said he has worked hard to make America stronger since he took office, and Democrats have been critical of the speech.
Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton tweeted that he left the address after the president started talking about what he's done for the military.
“Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again! America's enemies are on the run, America's fortunes are on the rise, and America's future is blazing bright,” Trump said to open his third State of the Union address on Tuesday.
While the topics discussed included a wide range of national issues, the military was heavily featured both in Trump’s talking points and the guests he invited to the event.
Blasting President Donald Trump as “a draft dodger” and taking him to task for mocking veterans and soldiers, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran, walked out of Tuesday night’s State of the Union address in protest.
“I left the #SOTU after Trump — a draft dodger who has mocked Sen. John McCain, Gold Star families, and soldiers with traumatic brain injury — started talking about the good he has done for our military.”
2020 Census Snapshot
- What: The decennial census counts everyone in the US.
- Why: Census results help determine how billions of dollars in federal funding flow into states and communities each year.
- When: Starting in Mid-March, households will be invited to complete the census.
- How: For the first time ever, househo
Three Democratic Massachusetts congressmen are calling for a change to a law that led the Veterans Administration to deny more than 2,648 claims for emergency room visits at non-VA hospitals in Massachusetts over the last five years, leaving veterans to pay $6.37 million for those visits because they had not seen their doctor in the previous 24 months.