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A KC-10 performs a touch-and-go at Travis Air Force Base, April 27, 2021.
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Lt. Shannon Biehl, assigned to “The Skinny Dragons” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 4, coordinates mission objectives while in-flight aboard a multi-mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft P-8A Poseidon with the “Condors”
of Indian Navy Air Squadron 316 during a bilateral combined detachment operating in the Indian Ocean, Oct. 23. The combined detachment focused on antisubmarine warfare and maritime domain awareness.
United States and India navies conduct bilateral P-8 training
An Indian Navy multi-mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft P-8I Poseidon, attached to the “Condors” of Indian Navy Air Squadron 316, flies alongside a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon, attached to “The Skinny Dragons” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 4, as part of a bilateral combined detachment operating in the Indian Ocean, Oct. 23.
Lt. Shannon Biehl and Lt. j.g. Alberto Reyes, both assigned to “The Skinny Dragons” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 4, conduct pre-flight checks on a multi-mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft P-8A Poseidon onboard U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia prior to participating in a bilateral combined detachment and training exercise with the “Condors” of Indian Navy Air Squadron 316, Oct. 23.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — Air Force officials want private companies to build artificial intelligence data centers on more than 3,000 acres of land on five of its military bases, raising questions about security, ethics, and land use. The Air Force bases – Davis-Monthan in Ariz., Edwards, Robins in Ga., Joint Base McGuire-DixLakehurst in N.J., and Arnold in Tenn. – will make “underutilized” land available “for private commercial data center use,” according to an Oct. 15 and Oct. 21 request for lease proposal from the service published online. “AI is transforming the modern world, and these data centers are crucial for America to remain at the forefront of innovation,” Robert Moriarty, the Air Force’s deputy assistant secretary of installations, said in an unpublished news release. The lease proposal follows a late July executive order in which President Donald Trump promised a “golden age for American manufacturing and technological dominance” by offering up federal land for AI data centers. But a national security expert said the unprecedented deal could blur the lines between public and private partnerships – and may make it hard for the military to regain control of that land in the future. “I have never heard of something like this before, where some of the public land was going to be leased to private companies to use,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security think tank. “I think it is noteworthy ... because it is potentially ceding land that the U.S. government will actually never get control over again.” The vast majority of the land, 2,115 acres, is spread across seven sites at Edwards Air Force Base, home to many of the service’s test aircraft projects. Pettyjohn said a private company having access to those bases and nearby training exercises and test facilities is concerning. “If you’re letting a lot of people on the base, there is a lot of room for potential espionage, let alone sabotage or things like that,” Pettyjohn See Data, Page 3