REBUILD THE UNITED STATES!

By Kevin Policarpo Cuts to NOAA’s personnel and operations by the Trump Administration have made the agency’s mission much more challenging as evidenced by charges that recent NOAA cutbacks may have delayed flood warnings in Central Texas. This, in turn, may have prompted a Congressional backlash so as to retore NOAA funding. Congressional members from both sides of the aisle have worked...

By Kevin Policarpo  With the number of high-profile airplane crashes in the U.S. since January 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now under extreme pressure to rebuild the nation’s outdated air traffic control system. The FAA has estimated that the cost of upgrading the system will cost the federal government $35 billion through 2030.[1] On January 29th,  over the Potomac River...

PHOTO: PORT OF LONG BEACH BY STAS MARGARONIS Infrastructure investments during the Biden administration closed the shortfall in U.S. infrastructure investments, including roads, bridges, ports, inland waterways, and aviation, but if Congress reverses that investment trend, the result could be “$5 trillion lost in gross economic output over 20 years”, according to the American Society of Civil...

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152051811 BY KEVIN POLICARPO The U.S. Navy and its shipbuilders: “are effectively made to operate in a perpetual state of triage. As a result, the Navy must divert its attention to shipbuilding programs that fall behind schedule and grow in cost,” according to a March General Accounting Office (GAO) report.[1] A second GAO report published...

BY KEVIN POLICARPO The U.S. Coast Guard is facing a $7 billion backlog of shore infrastructure projects  as of June 2024, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published on March 5th. [1] This is in contrast to 2019, when shore assets, such as piers and runways, needed at least $2.6 billion of work. About 45% of the facilities were past their expected service life,...

  BY STAS MARGARONIS & KEVIN POLICARPO A report by the Washington, D.C. based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warns that China’s newly developed AI technology, DeepSeek, could enhance cyber security attacks and cybercrimes:” Beyond its design risks, DeepSeek is the latest tool in the PRC’s cyber espionage toolkit to obtain more comprehensive intelligence and...

Photo by FlyD on Unsplash By Stas Margaronis & Kevin Policarpo AI SUMMARY A recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., raises concerns about China's new artificial intelligence (AI) tool called DeepSeek. The report suggests that DeepSeek could make cyberattacks and cybercrimes more effective, stating it's the latest addition to China's...

    BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS If China takes over Taiwan, it would be “the most revolutionary situation in security terms in East Asia since the rise of Japanese power in the 1930s and the outbreak of World War II”, according to Peter Enav, Editor of the Taiwan Strait Risk Report. Enav emphasized that President Donald Trump’s decision to support Taiwan or accede to a Chinese take-over...

BY STAS MARGARONIS Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says China’s latest maritime operations around Taiwan is “its largest maritime operations since 1996, dispatching almost 90 naval and coast guard vessels to waters stretching from the southern Japanese islands to the South China Sea” according to the Taiwan Straits Risk Report.[1] The December 11th report notes that China’s operations “were intended...