Incomplete list, mainly links to main stream news media reports, of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and cyber-chicanery announcements in January 2019:
At the end of January, U.S. led NATO countries converged on Estonia to conduct cyber warfare ops. Cyber operations included attempted attacks on industrial control systems, physical security systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and maritime surveillance systems, according to U.S. 24th Air Force/Air Forces Cyber.
During the ongoing U.S. meddling in Syrian politics, a female U.S. Navy Cryptologic Technician was killed in Manbij, on 16JAN2019.
Proof of just how dire things have gotten within the media industry, 1-thousand job cuts announced at BuzzFeed, HuffPost and Gannett!
China’s (Taiwan) Foxconn kills 50-thousand contractor jobs across the world, blaming it on crashing Apple iPhone sales!
The looming danger in high-tech car safety systems
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
CALIFORNIA: Space Exploration Technologies issued a layoff WARN, 577 people in Hawthorne to become jobless in March! Solid state battery maker Seeo issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Hayward, 45 jobs gone in March. Online entertainment company Machinima issued multiple WARNs, at least 81 jobs in Burbank gone in March. Carlisle Interconnect Technologies issued shutdown WARNs for its ops in El Segundo and Riverside, 338 jobs gone by October! Automotive pricing and information website TrueCar eliminating 35 jobs by mid-March. Verizon subsidiary Oath eliminating 71 jobs by the end of March. Symantec continues killing jobs, this time 14 people were suddenly laid off. Photonics company Invuity finally revealed to state unemployment officials that it laid off 81 people back in October 2018. Texas based AT&T issued several WARNs, 78 jobs gone by the end of March. Software maker VMware issued a layoff WARN for its Palo Alto ops, 126 jobs gone by April!
Helicopters and drones with hi-tech surveillance equipment will ostensibly be used to count how many homeless people live in San Diego County (interesting that apparently nobody has a problem with this, but many people have a hissy about the government counting non-citizens)
Viacom’s Paramount Pictures lays off 20 people
Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group suddenly lays off 22 people
Palo Alto based online home improvement platform Houzz lays off 180!
Elon Musk founded, Palo Alto based Tesla eliminating 3-thousand jobs due to lack of profitable sales!
Elon Musk founded, Hawthorne based Space X eliminating about 7-hundred jobs!
Mojave based Virgin Galactic lays off 40 employees ahead of transition to New Mexico spaceport
Santa Clara based McAfee suddenly lays off 2-hundred employees!
Cupertino based Apple eliminated 2-hundred jobs from its self-driving car program!
After nine years of hype, San Francisco based online meal delivery company Munchery is now dead: “Today, with a heavy heart, we’re reaching out to announce that Munchery is closing its doors and ending operations effective immediately.”
“They can hear you!” The new electronic warfare ‘Greywolf’ vehicle spotted at U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin National Training Center, 13JAN2019.
COLORADO: Cable TV company WideOpenWest (aka WOW!) shutting down a call center, 2-hundred jobs gone by March!
ILLINOIS: Cable TV company WideOpenWest (aka WOW!) issued a layoff WARN, 56 jobs in Warrenville gone by March. Audio/video equipment maker Harman International issued a shutdown WARN for its Vernon Hills ops, 59 jobs gone in March.
MARYLAND: On 04JAN2019, the U.S. Navy Reserve created a new Navy Cyber Warfare Development Group (NCWDG) Reserve unit: “There is a growing demand for Reservist skill sets from all designators. This is where it all comes together. Regardless of their designator, they have impressive skill sets from their civilian work they can apply to Navy needs.”-Captain James Lee, commander of new unit
In the following official USAF video report, new recruits are told that modern warfare IS about creating better video games:
MICHIGAN: Reprise Media issued a layoff WARN for its ‘Search, Social, Mobile Media’ ops in Birmingham, 92 jobs gone. Also in Birmingham, global media advertiser Universal McCann Worldwide issued a WARN, 116 jobs gone! Once again in Birmingham, ‘communication, media and technology specialists’ Mediabrands issued a shutdown WARN for its I-T ops, effective in March.
MINNESOTA: ‘Backup’ security software maker Code42 suddenly laid off 55 people due to crashing global sales
NEW YORK: Concentrix-Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its call center in Watertown, between 114 and 540 people affected by the end of April! Sun & Earth Energy company issued a layoff WARN, between 47 and 58 jobs gone. Monolith Solar issued a layoff WARN, as many as 23 employees affected.
App ‘savant’ kills self with cocaine and heroin!
NYC based global communications company Ketchum warns of Double-Digit Job Cuts
NYC based Verizon eliminating 8-hundred jobs!
No longer NYC based Lionsgate Lays Off 25 as part of its Escape from New York to California operation
Washington state founded, yet headquarters based in NYC (news media still says its based in Washington, for some reason), online make-up seller Julep suddenly lays off 102 people and goes bankrupt busted!
Texas based AT&T shutting down Syracuse call center, 150 jobs gone! (the official WARN says 155 jobs gone as operations are Escaping from New York to Florida)
NORTH CAROLINA: Conduent to lay off 61 employees
More proof the housing market isn’t doing well, iconic tech giant IBM laying off 310 people as it gets out of the mortgage processing business!
OHIO: Teleperformance shuts down Fairborn facility, 334 layoffs!
OKLAHOMA: Online children’s clothing boutique, T’Dazzled Too, bankrupt-busted due to owing customers thousands of dollars
OREGON: Bend based Western Communications now chapter 11 bankrupt-busted
TEXAS: Official report about taxpayer funded ‘Hack-of-the-Drones’ involving personnel from the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy: DVIDS_News_306568_791ccf518d402d1c6fe40a3ebe93e655210305df63065fd0dc3cec6e2e893243
Dallas based AT&T boasted about how many people they’ve hired, then admitted they were going to have to eliminate an undisclosed number of jobs
Dallas Morning News suddenly laid off 43 people due to crashing revenues
WASHINGTON: On 11JAN2019, the U.S. Army created the new Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space unit (known as I2CEWS) at Joint Base Lewis McChord: “Today we’ll activate the Army’s first I2CEWS detachment, which is the critical unit in the Multi-Domain Task Force and the centerpiece of how the Army will conduct Multi-Domain operations in the future.”-Lieutenant General Gary Volesky, I-Corps
Boeing, a company that’s been proven to have major hi-tech software malfunctions of its aircraft, is now switching to computers to conduct quality control inspections!
WISCONSIN: Mail order/online gift gourmet food seller Figi’s suddenly halted some operations and will layoff 276 people by March! For proof brick-n-mortars are not the only companies suffering declining sales, Figi’s reps said that despite investing millions of dollars into their ops, profits keep falling.
In four years, Rhinelander based Drs. Foster and Smith (DFS) went from the largest online seller of pet products in the country to out of business, the final 289 jobs killed by brick-n-mortar competitor PetCo!
U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, December 2018: “UNFORTUNATELY OUR RENT IS TOO HIGH”
In January 2019, the 48th Fighter Wing unveiled their new D-Day invasion stripe paint job on their F-15E Strike Eagles.
Currently known as Electronic Warfare Tactical Vehicle (EWTV), testing began in September 2018 at Yuma Army Proving Grounds, in Arizona.
In January 2019, testing shifted to Fort Irwin National Training Center, in California.
The new vehicle allows ground forces to intercept and jam electronic communications (electromagnetic spectrum) from a ‘safe’ distance. It will be a good use for artillery units because it can pin-point the source of electronic sources and then call-for-fire on those sources (the modern version of triangulating radio signals).
It can integrate with existing ECM (Electronic Counter Measures) vehicles like the VROD (Versatile Radio Observation & Direction) and VMAX (VROD Modular Adpative Transmit) systems.
Military housing personnel making hasty repairs, 07JUL2019.
Repairing base water lines damaged by the quakes, 06JUL2019.
Checking the wires over the Huey and Cobra helicopter ‘gate guards’, 07JUL2019.
Some buildings show signs of major cracks, but it looks like the commissary got shaken-up the most.