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Marshall Center’s Faculty Roundtable Addresses Today’s Security Trends, Threats

Source: United States Army

Headline: Marshall Center’s Faculty Roundtable Addresses Today’s Security Trends, Threats

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — The Faculty Roundtable is one of the ways that the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center here is able to address today’s security trends and threats facing our citizens and those of our allies. The most recent roundtable was held May 2. Dr. Graeme P. Herd, Marshall Center’s Research and Policy Analysis Department chair and professor of transnational security studies, presented on “Putin, Putinism and Operation Successor 2024.” During his presentation, he outlined different scenarios for power transfer in 2024, identifying their assumptions, what might be indicators and teasing out the implications.

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Insurance, Department of: May 6, 2019 — Department of Insurance to conduct disaster relief, flood insurance town halls

Source: US State of North Carolina

Headline: Insurance, Department of: May 6, 2019 — Department of Insurance to conduct disaster relief, flood insurance town halls

RALEIGH — As the hurricane season approaches June 1, North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey is using Hurricane Preparedness Week (May 5-11) to announce five town hall meetings this month to inform residents about disaster relief and the need to purchase flood insurance…

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NEWS: OPM Streamlines Biennial Review Submission Process

Source: US Government Office of Personnel Management

Headline: NEWS: OPM Streamlines Biennial Review Submission Process

WASHINGTON, DC – Today OPM issued the Call for Biennial Review Submission for Executive Allocations for Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 (Part II), which expands upon last December’s memorandum (Part I) and streamlines the process for agencies to request an increase or decrease in the number of senior positions (SES, SL, and ST) allocated in FY2020 and FY2021 .

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Hill AFB fighter wings conduct combat exercise

Source: United States Air Force

Headline: Hill AFB fighter wings conduct combat exercise

The friendly and enemy forces were made up of F-35 Lightning IIs from Hill AFB, F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 311th Fighter Squadron at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, and 80th FS at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, and a team of contracted aggressor pilots from Draken International, at Nellis AFB, Nevada.

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DHS, DOL to Publish Joint Rule for Additional Visas for Returning Foreign Workers

Source: US Department of Homeland Security

Headline: DHS, DOL to Publish Joint Rule for Additional Visas for Returning Foreign Workers

WASHINGTON – On May 6th, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) will publish a joint rule making available an additional 30,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for Fiscal Year 2019. These supplemental H-2B visas are available only to returning workers who received an H-2B visa, or were otherwise granted H-2B status, during one of the last three fiscal years (FY 2016, 2017, or 2018), and availability is restricted by prioritizing only those businesses who would suffer irreparable harm without the additional workers.

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Soldiers support Multinational Force and observes mission in Egypt

Source: United States Army

Headline: Soldiers support Multinational Force and observes mission in Egypt

Men and women who have been to war stand watch here in the hope others won’t have to. Some members of the Multinational Force and Observers – including some of the Hawaii National Guard troops currently contributing to the mission – have served in war zones.

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STRONG B.A.N.D.S. campaign encourages everybody to ‘Reach your peak’

Source: United States Army

Headline: STRONG B.A.N.D.S. campaign encourages everybody to ‘Reach your peak’

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS ─ “Reach Your Peak” is the theme for the U.S. Army’s ninth annual STRONG B.A.N.D.S. campaign in May, emphasizing physical health and well-being as vital components of readiness and resiliency.

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Army introduces next-generation capability for radio interoperability with allies

Source: United States Army

Headline: Army introduces next-generation capability for radio interoperability with allies

The Army Futures Command demonstrated a new capability that will enable secure, real-time radio communication between the U.S. Army and its coalition partners on April 25 during DoD Lab Day at the Pentagon.

The Radio Interoperability Capability — Universal, or RIC-U, is a voice bridge for tactical radios that will allow U.S. forces to seamlessly talk with allies during multi-national operations, yet still protect access to the Army’s tactical network.

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US military, partner nations assess future warfighting capabilities

Source: United States Army

Headline: US military, partner nations assess future warfighting capabilities

The U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command is sponsoring Joint Warfighting Assessment 19, a joint multinational military exercise, which is being conducted at Yakima Training Center and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, April 8, 2019 to May 11, 2019.

JWA 19 is the U.S. Army’s largest annual joint-multinational live exercise in which the U.S. military and partner nations assess 28 future warfighting concepts, capabilities and formations in a large-scale and realistic battlefield exercise.