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Defense News in Brief: U.S. Navy Destroyer Assumes Air Defense Duties as Part of Carrier Strike Group 21

Source: United States Navy

MEDITERRANEAN SEA – While operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) assumed air defense commander for the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group (UKCSG) in support of joint operations and interoperability training, demonstrating mutual commitment to stability and security throughout multiple areas of responsibilities.

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Security News in Brief: Correctional Officer, Two Inmates Among Five Charged in Scheme to Smuggle Contraband Into Wyatt Detention Center

Source: United States Department of Justice News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility correctional officer, two detainees, a defendant released from the Wyatt due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and another person have been charged by way of federal criminal complaints for their alleged participation in a scheme to smuggle Suboxone into the Central Falls facility, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.

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Defense News in Brief: USS Laboon Returns from Deployment

Source: United States Navy

NORFOLK, Va. – The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58), a ship of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG), returned to its homeport in Naval Station Norfolk on July 16 following a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and U.S. 6th Fleet areas of operation.

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Statement from Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran on Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Regarding Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Operations

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

The FBI and our partners are determined to disrupt the increasingly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored cyber activity that targets U.S. political, economic, military, education, and counterintelligence personnel and organizations. The FBI remains committed to imposing risk and consequences for this type of repeated malicious cyber activity, and we urge our partners to apply these recommended mitigations to decrease the risk this actor poses to their networks.