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Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 28 March 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 28 March 2025

"Senate confirms Makary for FDA commissioner," Roll Call "Makary, a former Johns Hopkins University surgeon and author, has been widely seen as a more middle-of-the-road pick compared to Trump’s other choices to lead the Department of Health and Human Services’ subagencies. He will take over leadership

Foreign paper investigates US security officials’ online data

Foreign paper investigates US security officials’ online data

Private contact details, including mobile numbers, email addresses, and even passwords of top US security officials are available online, as reported by Der Spiegel. These include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Reporters discovered the data using publicly accessible

Boeing faces criminal trial after admitting fraud in 737 MAX crashes

Boeing faces criminal trial after admitting fraud in 737 MAX crashes

Boeing confronts a pivotal moment as it heads toward a federal criminal trial on 23 June 2025, accused of defrauding the FAA in connection with two fatal 737 MAX crashes. These incidents in 2018 and 2019 claimed 346 lives. View from the Wing analyzes. Initially, Boeing reached a deferred prosecution

WSJ: Kennedy's HHS restructuring slashes headcount

WSJ: Kennedy's HHS restructuring slashes headcount

The Journal is reporting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s. sweeping reform plans that would drastically reduce the size of his department and centralize procurement, communications, and administrative operations. These measures would result in the department losing approximately 10,000 positions, shrinking the workforce by nearly

Space Force wants significant budget increase

Space Force wants significant budget increase

In a recent address at the Air and Space Forces Association's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, General B. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force, emphasized the urgent need for a substantial budget increase to meet the expanding demands of space defense, as reported

Perimeter Security Partners, LLC (B-422666.4)

Perimeter Security Partners, LLC (B-422666.4)

You should care. Category: Latent ambiguity, page limits Date: 11 March 2025 URL: GAO Decision B-422666.4 Perimeter Security Partners, LLC (PSP), of Brentwood, Tennessee, protested the US Army Corps of Engineers’ award of a task order to Low Voltage Wiring LTD (LVW), for preventive and corrective maintenance services at

Kayhan Space Corporation (B-423221; B-423221.2)

Kayhan Space Corporation (B-423221; B-423221.2)

You should not care. Category: Technical evaluation, cost or price evaluation Date: 12 March 2025 URL: GAO Decision B-423221; B-423221.2 Kayhan Space Corp., of Lafayette, Colorado, protested NOAA’s evaluation and subsequent award of a contract to Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., under RFP No. 1305M424R0047. The contract involved developing a