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The Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office (LACPD) is the largest public defense agency in the United States, serving nearly 10 million residents across a vast and diverse region and employing more than 700 attorneys. For an office of LACPD’s scale and complexity, understanding workload demands requires more than simply tracking case counts, which fails to capture how public defense work has evolved given new justice reform legislation in California, expanded diversion programs, and the proliferation of digital evidence. To better understand attorneys’ time commitments per case type, LACPD leadership sought an independent, data-driven study with two purposes: (1) rigorously…

This diagram illustrates the relationship of the Link-16 tactical datalink protocol with the wider European Secure Software Defined Radio Multi-Function Information Distribution System architecture. (OCCAR)Work advancing future European air operations connectivity has taken an important step forward with the signature of the EMIDS-2 contract.In July the Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d’Armement (OCCAR/Joint Organisation for Armament Cooperation) signed a contract with the EuroMIDS consortium to advance the European Secure Software Defined Radio Multifunction Information Distribution System (ESSOR MIDS). The EuroMIDS consortium includes Indra, Hensoldt, Leonardo and Thales. The contract signature will move the overall programme into the ESSOR MIDS-2…

CIA cyber operatives provided intelligence that helped U.S. forces locate and capture deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro within four minutes of landing on the ground in January this year, agency Deputy Director Michael Ellis said Tuesday.Ellis credited the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence with building what he called a “flawless intelligence picture” for Operation Absolute Resolve, the U.S. operation that seized Maduro.“If you look at [Absolute Resolve], you know that operation was only made possible by a flawless intelligence picture, and that flawless intelligence picture was built on cyber operations enabled by our CCI team,” Ellis said, speaking at the…

If there is a revolution brewing in the automation of white-collar work, you wouldn’t know it at the Pentagon. Here, the typical action officers, staff who tackle the daily work of the bureaucracy, perform essentially the same duties as their predecessors in 1996 or 1956: creating charts, authoring papers, delivering briefings, and coordinating across offices. Given the promise of AI tools, allowing this staff ecosystem to remain stuck in the past represents a dangerous failure to adapt, especially as senior leaders criticize the workforce for lacking organizational speed. Having served as an action officer across the White House, Pentagon, and…

In fighting your last fight is how people remember you, but your next fight is the only one one that matters. Everyone has to understand how important these elections are and we have to get out and vote. One mistake I’ve made in my career was becoming complacent while I was on a winning streak and forgetting how unforgiving my sport could be. If we are not just as passionate about voting and winning in these midterms as we were in the last presidential election then we risk getting knocked out and losing all the momentum we have been fighting…

NBA superstar Jaylen Brown took an interesting side quest this NBA off season. The newly signed Philadelphia 76er popped over to Nigeria to throw hands in a boxing match.Check out some of the ‘action’ from that fight below.In the comments on Instagram Brown remarked that he “did 0 prep for this”.In truth this fight was put together in partnership with one of Brown’s charity initiatives, so this appears to be more of a spar than anything else. He’s lucky his partner didn’t go off script, though. Brown, after all, is due to make $58 million this season (and another $126…

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed plans for a large-scale reorganization to accommodate a significantly downsized workforce, but then quickly withdrew those plans for unknown reasons, documents obtained by Federal News Network show. HUD initially issued a preview of its “notice of intent to reorganize” on Sept. 4 in the Federal Register’s public inspection repository. But later in the day, HUD’s Office of General Counsel submitted a request for the document to be withdrawn from public inspection and to cancel its formal publication in the Federal Register, without providing a reason for the withdrawal. The draft reorganization plans…

Could AI- and robot-made missile components and airframes be the future of aerospace manufacturing? That’s the bet, Machina Labs CEO Edward Mehr said.The Los Angeles-based company plans to break ground on its third manufacturing facility this year, Mehr told Defense One at the Space and Missile Defense Conference last month.That facility, which hasn’t been named yet, is expected to be up to 250,000 square feet—more than double the size of Machina Labs’ two existing facilities.The company builds large metal structures like airframes and drone bodies using AI and robotics with less specialized tooling and equipment. “If you think about traditional metal…

As Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly’s final weeks as the director of the Defense Logistics Agency wind down, he can easily recognize how the agency is different today. In the two-plus years as DLA’s leader, Simerly pushed DLA to be more agile and to adapt to an increasingly changing logistics environment. Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly is the outgoing director of the Defense Logistics Agency. “Probably the greatest change that I’ve seen in the agency is a willingness to change within the agency. This recognition that we have to respond to the changing environment, that we have to respond to the changing…