Frank national security guidance from Takoma Park, MD. Contractor. Writes in various places. DM for Signal.
Takoma Park, MD
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Craig Hooper retweeted
This angle gets me, where he’s just kind of standing there soaking it in, then sees his daughter and smiles, then instantly melts into tears … whew. Hell of a run, 35.
Craig Hooper retweeted
Insightful piece by @NextNavy on the future of Austal.
Austal needs either a buyer or a bailout. With losses piling up, there’s not much time to indulge in a traditional bidding war.
forbes.com/sites/craighooper…
Craig Hooper retweeted
Austal needs either a buyer or a bailout. With losses piling up, there’s not much time to indulge in a traditional bidding war.
forbes.com/sites/craighooper…
Craig Hooper retweeted
Gov. Gavin Newsom indicated he's not ready just yet to scrap a plan that would help the developers of California Forever, even though Solano County's Board of Supervisors voted against it.
Craig Hooper retweeted
Watch this black hat wearing wannabe cowboy in the poorest-performing county throw away a multi-billion dollar Navy shipyard deal!
If Newsom can’t even kick this small man to the curb how will he deal with Putin, Xi or anybody as president. No way they will respect him.
Craig Hooper retweeted
THE SALPA LINE - FINLAND'S LAST LINE OF DEFENCE
Just nine days after the Winter War ended in March 1940, Finland decided to build the Salpa Line - a massive new defensive system along its new eastern frontier.
It would eventually stretch some 1,200 km.
Here's it's story. 🧵
Craig Hooper retweeted
SCOOP: Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching fighter jets from its aircraft carriers and instead go back to using steam catapults, a move Navy officials have fought for years and will likely cost billions in extra dollars.
U.S. officials say Trump signed a national security memorandum today directing the change, which would involve removing the electromagnetic catapult system used by the ships in the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers
wsj.com/us-news/trump-orders…
@MarcusReports
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The full memo states that the Secretary of War shall provide the President with a PLAN to revert ONE future carrier, CVN-81, to steam catapults. It does not order equipment removed from any existing aircraft carriers.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
Craig Hooper retweeted
This week, in the former Soviet Union, an American engineer for a San Diego-based company was arrested and charged with spying for the United States.
Russian authorities say he was caught attempting to smuggle out their secret formula for alcoholism and despair.
Craig Hooper retweeted
Must read article on the dangers facing the Merchant Marine!
And 10x bonus points to Craig for calling the UN @IMOHQ “farcical”
Targeted, Merchant Marine Needs Help Confronting New, Dangerous Seas via @forbes forbes.com/sites/craighooper…
Craig Hooper retweeted
Craig, good post and worthy of a deep dive. Question for you. The losses you cite are commercial merchant tonnage, not MSC auxiliaries. Is there actual evidence Navy sealift ships are under-designed for this threat environment, or is the real argument that the industry day is a chance to get ahead of a risk that hasn't hit MSC yet?
Bill, StrongerNavy.org
Craig Hooper retweeted
Huge and good news, if you don't like too much corruption and better quality work! Oh, and it's not Chinese debt...
NEW RESEARCH: The 2026 update to the Pacific Aid Map reveals Australia has overtaken China to become the Pacific’s dominant source of lending and infrastructure investment in the region.
lowyinstitute.org/publicatio…
Craig Hooper retweeted
U.S.shipbuilder housing just became a national story. Craig Hooper's Forbes piece is why. Good article, worth reading.
Bill
Craig Hooper retweeted
“Workforce housing and the development of modern, sustainable worker-ready communities is an emerging national priority for every on-the-move political leader in America.”
Few realize that Shipbuilder housing is a stealth issue that will have national implications for 2028 as shipbuilding really gets rolling. Get ready.
forbes.com/sites/craighooper…
Craig Hooper retweeted
The NSA kept 1 lecture in a vault for 40 years. In 2024 they released it. It's Grace Hopper explaining the future of computing in 1982.
The channel that posted it: the National Security Agency's own YouTube.
Hopper stands at a podium in Navy uniform, a captain, and talks to a room of NSA staff for 90 minutes across 2 reels.
The title: "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People."
She compares the computer industry to the early automotive one, all custom parts and no standards, and argues software will become the hard problem, not hardware. She was right by decades.
She invented the first compiler and gave COBOL its shape. She kept a clock that ran backwards on her wall to prove rules can be questioned.
The tapes were too degraded for normal release, so the agency restored them before posting.
40 years in an NSA archive. 90 minutes. Now free.
Craig Hooper retweeted
Navy’s Pacific Achilles’ Heel - shipyards
The biggest military threat to the US is China, which should war come would be a conflict fought across the Pacific. As such, priority needs be to establishing naval repair and maintenance facilities there. Today there is inadequate dry dock capacity, too few shipyards for maintenance nor ship construction (drone ships would be an easy first step for new shipbuilding) on the West Coast.
See the latest article/reporting on this here: forbes.com/sites/craighooper…
Craig Hooper retweeted
Danish artist's wooden troll sculpture brings whimsy to RAGBRAI desmoinesregister.com/story/…
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Wow. Just wow. Commiefonia senator @Cabaldon4CA just killed a vital $3.2 billion, 10,000-job US Navy shipyard deal because he refused to allow housing within 25 miles of the new shipyard.
Is he:
A) Stupid?
B) A communist?
C) Pro-China?
D) Wants USA to lose?
E) All of the above?
