David Palilonis

It matters not what service you are in. Infrastructure has been underfunded for years. Our Engineers are out their giving it battle, plugging one whole after another with their fingers. Services constantly put infrastructure on the unfounded list because they don’t fund it up front due to weapon system modernization. I am not saying one is more important. However, you cant expect resilience or reliability from 60+ yr old systems. Edit: I’d also ask what commanders spend their time answering…complaints about quality of life and infrastructure.

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Are you curious about what #submarines do when tracking surface ships? Below is a video from a Prospective Command Officer course. Some good people on LinkedIn were a part of this. US Navy Infrastructure Masons Build Submarines United States Submarine Veterans Naval Submarine League Navy League of the United States #veterans #veteranshelpingveterans #veteransupport

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Data is critical for a global connected U.S. Army, but as the service ingests data from disparate sources and battlefields all over the world, Army leaders want to ensure it is not inundated with data that it cannot use. “There’s too much damn data out there, and we can’t overload our warfighters and our leaders with too much data,” Army Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Young Bang said at an AUSA Cyber & Information Advantage Hot Topic event earlier this month. Michael Diorio, senior vice president of global operations at Dataminer, added that data can be collected from sources as diverse as sensors, tweets, videos, photos, audio broadcasts or transponders. As billions of data points are ingested to one location, the totality of information can give a clear picture of a location or event. “It’s been talked about for years that data is the oil, but at the same time, there wasn’t necessarily the technology to really analyze all this data, look at causal inference and then correlations. And so what we do with our large language models and foundation models is really look at the strength of signal that is happening around an event,” Diorio said.

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This is going around Reddit, but only Vadenburg AFB has released anything official. Need a better release if this is forthcoming 1 Oct. 1. ⁠Applications from companies to become a SkillBridge Provider will only be accepted by DoD during structured window of 1 Oct - 1 Dec and 1 Feb - 1 Apr each year and will be renewed annually. This means if you have a company not on the already approved listing at DoD SkillBridge Program (osd.mil), that company must wait until the next SkillBridge window of 1 Oct - 1 Dec or 1 Feb - 1 Apr to be considered as a SkillBridge provider; meaning they will not be able to accept any SkillBridge applications from service members until they apply during the window and are approved by DoD. Anyone considering a company that is not already on the approved DoD SkillBridge list should consider talking with that company ahead of time. 2. ⁠Effective 15 Jul 24 all current MOUs in the SkillBridge Program must sign a new agreement with the following requirements: ⁠1. ⁠All providers must be an established business with a minimum of 3 years in operation. ⁠2. ⁠All providers must offer positions to participants with an annual salary of (no less than) $52k annually or $25/hour for full-time work. ⁠3. ⁠All providers must have a hybrid training program that requires at least one (8 hours) of face-to-face training per week at company location. ⁠4. ⁠Companies participating in DoD SkillBridge must offer positions to Service Members at least 75% of the time to continue as a participating DoD SkillBridge Provider. ⁠5. ⁠No third-party providers will be allowed. Programs providing internships for certifications or job skills, but not actually offering employment are no longer allowed. ⁠6. ⁠All providers offering only online programs will not be allowed to sign the new MOU. All MOUs not signed with the 15 Jul 24 effective changes will automatically expire 1 Oct 24. The intent of these changes within the program is to reduce the amount of funds required by DoD to pay for unemployment insurance claims by separating members. In the last ten years, there has been a significant increase in veterans applying for unemployment and unemployment insurance claims due to them not having jobs readily available in their post military life. The DoD SkillBridge program was to ensure departing service members were offered jobs in companies for skillsets learned while in the military. These changes are in place to bring the SkillBridge program back to its original intent and ensuring that service members are offered jobs when completing a SkillBridge internship versus filing for unemployment. To do this, they are now imposing these strict regulations on the companies providing SkillBridge opportunities. These changes will impact every service member who plans to start SkillBridge 1 Oct 24 or later.

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