Background Nearly 75 percent of all new, emerging, or re-emerging diseases affecting humans at the beginning of the 21st century are zoonotic (i.e. originated in animals). Notable reminders of how vulnerable the increasingly interconnected world is to the global impact of new emergent diseases include HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, and the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus. The speed with which these diseases can emerge and spread presents serious public health, economic, and development concerns. It also underscores the need for the development of comprehensive disease detection and response capacities, particularly in “hot…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Study encompasses all facets of the NRO workforce, with the goal to optimize human capital across the NRO to achieve mission objectives. Document Archive NRO Workforce 2015 Study, 11 April 2012 [22 Pages, 3.8MB]
Background Internally, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)’s Office of Strategic Communication published the blog entitled, “Vigilance from Above”. It appears, that it began in November of 2009 and was published until June of 2010. I do have an open request for the entire collection, and this page will be updated when that request response comes in. Until then, the final 10 blogs published have been released to me below. Document Archive NRO Internal Blog/Newsletter: VIGILANCE FROM ABOVE (Requested “all issues” a/o February 2019) [17 Pages, 1.5MB] NRO Internal Blog/Newsletter: VIGILANCE FROM ABOVE (Requested “Last 10” a/o 2017) [11 Pages, 1.8MB]
PENTAGON, Virginia (NNS) — The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time (HST). The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), which flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point. Concurrently, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) monitored and gathered tracking data from the flight experiment that will inform its ongoing development of systems designed to defend against adversary hypersonic weapons. Information gathered from this and future experiments…
by John Greenewald, Jr. – The Black Vault – Originally Published March 20, 2020 In yet another example of UFO history being lost, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recently informed The Black Vault that another UFO document was lost within their archives. The document, which is poorly titled within the CIA’s CREST Database as, “UNTITLED (23 SEPT (DELETED) WITH PERSONAL REQUEST TO INVESTIGATE UFO SIGHTED,” was requested to have a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) conducted. The original release of the record appears to have been done on October 5, 1978, but was heavily redacted. The first release looked like this:…