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Navy Creating ‘Sandbox’ to Evaluate Work from Tech Companies
May 24, 2021 2:57 PM
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alberto Ramirez, an infantryman with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division uses a communication system during Urban Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 (ANTX18) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 19, 2018. Marines are testing next generation technologies to provide the opportunity to assess the operational utility of emerging technologies and engineering innovations that improve the Marine’s survivability, lethality and connectivity in complex urban environments. US Marine Corps photo.
The Navy – looking for flexibility when dealing with small, high-tech companies – is creating a “sandbox” to vet work from both the companies and the service, according to a Navy official.
A Georgia Chicken Town Reels After a Plant Disaster
A nitrogen leak killed six workers and injured 11, but many in the heavily undocumented work force, advocates said, are too fearful to go in for medical checks.
A nitrogen leak at the Foundation Food Group poultry plant killed six people in Gainesville, Ga., this week. Nearly 12 percent of the city’s residents are in the country illegally.Credit.Nicole Craine for The New York Times
Jan. 29, 2021
GAINESVILLE, Ga. The morning after a nitrogen leak in a chicken plant killed six people in the self-proclaimed poultry capital of the world, nearly everyone in its big Latino community choked down their grief and fear and did what they had come to Gainesville to do.