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First Lt. Justin Hohman, Engineering Practice lead, works on software code at Kessel Run, a program within the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, a United States Department of Defense organization, in Boston May. 30, 2018. Air Force software coders work with private sector software engineers to learn new and innovative techniques to deliver software solutions to the warfighter in weeks and months instead of years. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
A software development team meets about a project in the office of Kessel Run, a program within the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, a United States Department of Defense organization, in Boston May. 30, 2018. Air Force software coders have been learning private sector techniques, such as coding in pairs and delivering a minimum viable product to the warfighter in weeks and months, instead of years, and then working directly with them to steadily build improvements. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
12th Annual Charity Golf Tournament
presented by
SNC LAVALIN Pacific Liaicon and Associates
Benefitting the Eureka Camp Society/Apex Secondary School
Hosted at the beautiful Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club and Golf Academy
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery
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The RBM Procurement and Supply Chain Management working group held a two-day meeting ton 3-4 February 2011. Participants discussed issues around forecasting and quantification, pharmacovigilance, ACT and artemisinin mapping, country bottlenecks, and the use of cell phones to prevent and monitor drug stock-outs.
Governor Moore speaking at Senior Procurement Advisory Group Meeting by Anthony DePanise at 100 Community Place, Crownsville, MD 21032
This was a lovely time at Slimbridge, when a moment produces a sentiment of a young child asking her mommy if the birds are fighting. Her mother returns a comment with ' no darling they are making babies '
Lt.Governor Rutherford by Anthony DePanise at Kenhill Center, 2614 Kenhill Drive Bowie, Maryland 20715
The fourth and final phase of the Highway 1 Kicking Horse Canyon project is moving forward with an invitation for bidders to submit their qualifications to design and build the project. As part of the competitive procurement process, a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) has been released on BC Bid for this complex project east of Golden. Work includes realigning and widening the final 4.8 kilometres through the canyon from West Portal to Yoho Bridge to four lanes, and installing median barrier, snow avalanche and rock fall hazard protection.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/20535
12th Annual Charity Golf Tournament
presented by
SNC LAVALIN Pacific Liaicon and Associates
Benefitting the Eureka Camp Society/Apex Secondary School
Hosted at the beautiful Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club and Golf Academy
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery
.
British Seapower and Procurement Between the Wars by G.A.H. Gordon.
Hard to recommend this 300 page book too highly. Gordon starts early with a couple of quotations to sum up the thrust of his work.
Firstly Sir George Barlow in 1924 “ There are a certain amount of foolish virgins and a certain number of wise virgins, and the Admiralty are the wise virgins because they will have oil in their lamps”
And secondly G.C. Shaw in 1938 “ Supply... forms the basis on which rests the whole structure of war, it is the very foundation of strategy and tactics”
The Admiralty, thankfully, rode roughshod over the Treasury’s sensibilities and regulations during the period of rearmament and thus made the most of Britain’s latent potential capacity for the production of the wherewithal for the RN to fight the forthcoming war.
Given the lessons learnt during the Kaiser War and the considerable historical benefits that Britain gained during that conflict in comparison to France and America it would have been a stunning dereliction of duty if this had not been the case.
Gordon also compares the British approach with that of the German approach which he concludes was much more directed towards the accumulation of war stocks rather than planning for the total subsumption of her industry to the war effort.
And finally, of course, the ultimate reality that the first 18 months of the war cost Britain 85% of her dollar and gold reserves and that in the absence of American realisation of the consequences of a British defeat that led to lend lease and the American entry to the war there would have been little option but to stop fighting.
Gordon’s hero in this tale is, I think rightly, Chatfield, who both as Third and later First Sea Lord did much that hindsight has proved to be right and sensible. A turnaround for a man who did more than most as Beatty’s Flag Captain to frustrate the efforts of the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet during the Kaiser War.
There are, as always, conflicting views but there you go.
It is always a sign of a good book that the reading of it adds another dozen books to one’s Abe Books want list. This particular book, a most felicitous present, has been read in the past and will be read again in the future.