When a military surveillance balloon broke free of its moorings Tuesday and began a 160-mile journey north, it was only the most dramatic in a series of problems for a deeply troubled $2.7 billion Army effort to mount powerful radars high in the skies.
Members of Congress pressed for more information about how a giant surveillance balloon broke free of its moorings at Aberdeen Proving Ground, as troops resorted to shotgun blasts Thursday to deflate the errant aircraft.
New York, NY, November 10, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced that it will incorporate JLens , the leading Jewish values-based investor network, to expand its participation and advocacy in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement also known as impact investing and to fight efforts by some activists
monitor the blimp, which is trailing around cable, snapping power lines and causing about 30,000 outages. to most onlookers, the sight may have come an a shock, but to longtime observer of the budgeting process, that is a legendary icon of waste and bureaucracy, last month an in-depth report on the jlens, the 2.7 billion blimp program, which has consistently failed to detect intruders in america airspace including a florida postal worker who landed on. it was saved allegedly after lobbying by a joint chiefs of staff, a general who went on to sit on the board of the main contractor.
contractor. the result, 17 years after its birth, jlens is a stark example of what defense specialists call a zombie program, costly, ineffectual and seemingly impossible to kill. the blimp was not so lucky. as it started to deflate, it eventually came down on its own. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. [ birds squawking ] my mom makes airplane engines that can talk.