US Transportation Command has put its new Families First program into a “strategic pause,” postponing the February implementation of phase 2 until it can deliver “quality development” of the plan’s “one system, one standard, worldwide Web-based” Defense Personal Property System. Officials say they need time to “create a more efficient program oversight process” and “provide ample time for user training” outside the peak May through September season for household moves. So that must mean they’re looking at next fall
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…

