The Trump Presidency 2.0

AWP said:
I'm glad this has come up because it forced me to dig a little. Nerd stuff: the Navy uses Azure, virtual desktops for the masses being a new (this year) thing. The Army's cloud is AWS. The Air Force cloud is something different. Wickr is supposed to operate across the platforms.
How much IT/ computer interoperability have y'all experienced between the services? You have a CAC? Great. Can you use that for every network? Nope. Some of that is good IT management or maybe a tech limitation. Don't know, don't care but consider using this joint app across different (and competing) cloud services in an environment where there is no single logon or authentication across domains.

And each branch has its own budget for its own cloud. Installation, operations, and maintenance.

It is a Friday so only 1/3 of my peers are here, but no one's heard of Wickr. Now this all makes sense.

Good thing that 20+ years of GWOT taught us how to be Joint. At least our GAL can see email from other branches though it is usually dated. Little victories, I guess?
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Army uses Azure for Virtual Desktop, not AWS
 
Cookie_ said:
Azure is a virtual desktop interface; it doesnt change the operating system.

This article explains it better than I can, but tldr is that Azure allows me to use my personal laptop as if I'm on a government one. Hypori on the phone does the same thing.
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I have been really hating Hypori.. it's nice to have access to most things on my phone, but it is about the least responsive thing ever.
 
Cookie_ said:
Azure is a virtual desktop interface; it doesnt change the operating system.

This article explains it better than I can, but tldr is that Azure allows me to use my personal laptop as if I'm on a government one. Hypori on the phone does the same thing.
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Helpful, my only exposure to azure is as a cloud storage program as well as the backbone to ton of global tech architecture things from a sports data provider. So had no idea it did that.

Also...BYOD haha.
 
The Quartermaster said:
It's okay to take a day off from politics, brother. Touching grass and fresh air is amazing.
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This isn't politics or touching grass. I pride myself on tech knowledge and I missed that exchange. I stand by my assertion that DoW's chat app guidance hasn't made it to our level*, but the tech stuff? That's my L to bear. My knowledge and research didn't get this one right and I deserve the hit.

* "Our level" meaning the guidance hasn't passed to Ech II because the services actually do some things counter to DoW directives (or maybe that latitude is allowed...I don't know), OR the memo never made it past Ech II (again, some latitude is granted or taken and ignored by higher, but we never know those limits).
 
AWP said:
This isn't politics or touching grass. I pride myself on tech knowledge and I missed that exchange. I stand by my assertion that DoW's chat app guidance hasn't made it to our level*, but the tech stuff? That's my L to bear. My knowledge and research didn't get this one right and I deserve the hit.

* "Our level" meaning the guidance hasn't passed to Ech II because the services actually do some things counter to DoW directives (or maybe that latitude is allowed...I don't know), OR the memo never made it past Ech II (again, some latitude is granted or taken and ignored by higher, but we never know those limits).
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I honestly think there hasn't been really any DOW guidance and that everyone is just doing what they think is right. My wife on the Air Force side said they are being pushed to Baseconnect, but that looks like a generic info dump guidance down to airmen platform opposed to something more like signal. SOCOM was trying to use Wickr a while back when the only other people using it were OGA, but then in about 2022 they got rid of the consumer version. Now it's back with the enterprise version called WickrGov. I'm pretty against using hyper focused solutions because it makes it hard to obfuscate in a modern UTS environment when you can just look to see who the people you are looking for are using the same app on your networks...

I think WickrGov is an alright messaging app with direct messages and rooms you can manage, but a few of my soldiers are not even through their pipelines yet and might not have CACs, so it means we are more or less forced to use RCS to disseminate anything. Seems like this is in the opposite direction of intent.
 
Men who have already been stabbed passing wisdom to those men who have not had this wonderful experience: Don't stick it in crazy before crazy sticks it in you.

The unstabbied men: But she's got a big Latina booty!
 

Admiral hands over leadership of command overseeing the Trump administration's boat strikes​


"Adm. Alvin Holsey has retired one year into a posting that typically lasts three to four years and transferred leadership duties to his top military deputy, Air Force Lt. Gen. Evan Pettus, during a ceremony at U.S. Southern Command headquarters near Miami.

In farewell remarks, Holsey did not mention the military operations or the reasons for his early retirement. But he urged his successor to uphold longstanding partnerships in the region by standing firmly behind the shared values of democracy and support for the rule of law."

Probably a good move...would not want the buck stopping with me.....

Admiral hands over leadership of command overseeing the Trump administration's boat strikes
 
Kraut783 said:

Admiral hands over leadership of command overseeing the Trump administration's boat strikes​


"Adm. Alvin Holsey has retired one year into a posting that typically lasts three to four years and transferred leadership duties to his top military deputy, Air Force Lt. Gen. Evan Pettus, during a ceremony at U.S. Southern Command headquarters near Miami.

In farewell remarks, Holsey did not mention the military operations or the reasons for his early retirement. But he urged his successor to uphold longstanding partnerships in the region by standing firmly behind the shared values of democracy and support for the rule of law."

Probably a good move...would not want the buck stopping with me.....

Admiral hands over leadership of command overseeing the Trump administration's boat strikes
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Book deal?
 

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