On 7 February, Donald Trump nominated Christopher Scolese as the new Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Scolese is currently director of the NASA Goddard Flight Centre, a post he has held since 2012. Before that he worked for NASA in Washington. The NRO is responsible for the United …
On 31 January and 1 February, for sessions of eight hours each day, London’s Metropolitan Police deployed cameras utilising Facial Recognition Technology outside Romford station. The system monitored all passers-by and compared their faces with a watch list of wanted criminals. The experiment wasn’t a great success. It clocked up …
Paul Erikson, 56, ex-boyfriend of the suspected Russian spy Maria Butina, 29, was indicted in South Dakota on federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering on 5 February. He pleaded not guilty to 11 charges and was released under investigation. Butina was charged on 16 July 2018 with being …
The recent US government shutdown cost Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) more than $20 million in lost revenue according to their chief financial officer, Lloyd Howell, speaking to investors on 1 February. The reason that BAH was hit so hard is that Government employees can claim back pay now that the …