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2023
For the first time, a woman became the head of the US Navy - Lisa Franchetti
Admiral Lisa Franchetti was appointed head of the US Navy on November 2, 2023 - she became the first woman in the US Chiefs of Staff and as "naval commander."
From 2020 to 2022, the admiral worked as director of strategy and plans of the Joint Staff of the Chiefs of Staff of the United States, where she took part in 3 exercises on the war with Russia, commanded the AUG from North Korea - when the United States frightened Kim Jong-un.
In 2018, Franchetti commanded the first ever Tomahawks strike from the Virginia-class nuclear submarine in Syria from European waters. "The goal was difficult: three facilities in Damascus and near Homs were close to Russian forces and air defense systems, the defeat of which the United States wanted to avoid," writes Navy Times. According to ex-Admiral Foggo, 'there were some real problems there' - but Lisa said'I'm not afraid of the Russians' and gave the command to salvo. The result - "the targets were destroyed, the collateral damage is minimal, the Russians were not hurt."
Supports the new commander-in-chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles "Ruthless" Brown Jr., demanding that Biden "begin preparations for a war with Russia or China."
Map of U.S. Navy bases around China
2022
Payment of $154,000 for installing hundreds of thousands of pirated copies of 3D modeling software
On November 18, 2022, in the United States, a court on federal petitions partially satisfied the claim of Bitmanagement Software GmbH against the American naval forces (Navy). The latter were accused of creating hundreds of thousands of pirated copies of BS Contact Geo 3D modeling software.
The German software company Bitmanagement Software GmbH began working with the US Navy back in 2011. Initially, the agreement provided for the installation of 38 copies of the BS Contact Geo package, designed to visualize content based on digital data from various sources: these can be satellite photos, geodetic surveying, laser scanning, and more.
Bitmanagement Software GmbH says that after the tests, the US Navy promised to purchase a large number of licenses for the BS Contact Geo product for a large-scale deployment in 2013. At the same time, at the request of the customer, the developer company turned off copy protection in its software. As a result, court documents say, between 2013 and 2015, when negotiations to buy licenses continued, the U.S. Navy proceeded to install BS Contact Geo on at least 558,466 computers, though only the original 38 licenses were paid for.
The plaintiffs estimated that at a price per copy of $1,067.76, the defendants owed approximately $596 million for using the software without proper permission and numerous copyright violations. But the Navy said the licenses that were purchased allow copies of the product to be made without the need for additional payment. After considering the arguments of the parties, the court ruled that the defendants should pay Bitmanagement Software GmbH only $154,400 with "deferred compensation," the amount of which will be determined later.[1]
US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife get 20 years in prison for trying to sell nuclear submarine secrets
On November 9, 2022, the US Department of Justice announced the appointment of prison terms for a Maryland man and his wife for conspiring to illegally distribute classified data related to the design of warships with nuclear power plants. Read more here.
2021: Creation of an AI unit
In mid-September 2021, the 5th Fleet of the US Navy, as part of the Central Command, created the Task Force 59 unit, focused on integrating artificial intelligence into unmanned systems used in the fleet. Read more here.
2019: Rejection of sensory control of ships
On August 9, 2019, the US Navy announced its refusal to use sensor control of ships after a fatal accident caused by such technology.
Starting in 2020, all destroyers (destroyers) will return to traditional mechanical controls such as steering wheels, toggle switches, buttons and levers. Previously, such ships switched to touch interfaces similar to those used in smartphones and tablets.
The decision to re-equip the fleet was made after the National transport Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released the results of an investigation into the collision of the American destroyer John McCain and an oil tanker off the coast Singapore on August 21, 2017.
One of the causes of the accident, the report cited the warship's sophisticated touchscreen interface. According to the NTSB, the incident occurred as a result of a lack of proper level of training on the use of the IBNS sensor control system. One of the crew members assumed to control all of the destroyer's engines, while he controlled only one side of the ship. He increased the power of his half, which led to a sharp turn of the vessel and a collision with the tanker. The crash killed 10 sailors and injured 48 people aboard the John McCain of varying severity.
After the incident, the Navy conducted a large-scale survey among the military, and, according to Rear Admiral Bill Galinis, most respondents would prefer mechanical control over sensor control.
Galinis said that by August 2019, the US Navy is in the process of concluding a contract for the installation of mechanical controls. These will be a kind of remodels that are easily installed, he added.[2]
2016: HPE employee's laptop hack leads to data breach of over 134,000 US sailors
At the end of October 2016, personal data of 134 thousand American sailors was leaked. This was reported on November 23 by Reuters, citing a statement by the United States naval forces.
The leak was due to the negligence of one of the employees of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services (an IT contractor of the US Navy), whose laptop was hacked, which allowed attackers to steal data. The company notified the state customer about this at the end of October 2016. Read more here.
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