Dan Gonzales

Senior Scientist @RAND. research and policy on communications tech, quantum computing, cyber, EW, and advanced microchips

[Dan Gonzales @gonzadan]

In April RAND hosted a U.S. Quantum Computer (QC) Strategy Workshop. Here are the QC experts from U.S. industry and govt. that helped craft U.S. strategies for maintaining U.S. leadership in quantum computing.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Trump says that Iranian forces shot down the Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter that went down over Hormuz yesterday.

He says that the US "must, of necessity, respond to this attack"

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

A Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessel rescued the Army AH-64 Apache crew after they crashed near the Strait of Hormuz in the waters of Oman yesterday, the first-ever rescue of downed aircrew by a drone boat -WSJ

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

The reposted chart shows the results of China's admission to the WTO in 2001.

This chart shows the consequences of it (see the 2019 book "Death of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" by Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

[AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_]

Saudi Arabia sounds missile alert in area home to the Prince Sultan Air Base, which hosts U.S. forces. - AP

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Monday morning’s retaliatory strikes against Iran by the Israeli Air Force seem to have been quite small compared to previous waves and appear to have been carried out entirely from over Iraq instead of Iran, both of which would make sense if they were not receiving aerial-refueling and other support from the United States.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, bypassing Britain, who has indicated that it plans to cede the strategically important island chain in the Indian Ocean, which is located close to both China and Iran, according to The Telegraph.

Under the plan, which is one of several proposals drawn up by senior officials in the Trump Administration, the United States would take full control of the Chagos Islands and Diego Garcia, a strategic air base jointly operated by both the U.S. and United Kingdom.

[Dan Gonzales @gonzadan]

@VanberghenEU @kajakallas @NATO This was due to Russian Electronic warfare attack against these drones. The EW attacks occurred in EU territory. One important note for the future of the EU. It not only cannot defend itself, it also doesn’t have the surveillance capabilities to know when it is under EW attack.

[Dan Gonzales @gonzadan]

Important demystification of Huawei marketing propaganda last week. China remains generations behind west in microchips because they don’t have EUV

[Dan Nystedt @dnystedt]

https://t.co/I81IU0ThN5

[auonsson @auonsson]

Jag tror bilderna nedan innebär att en stor del av Östersjöflottans ammunition har gått i upp rök efter att Ukraina attackerat den. På Sveriges nationaldag.

Enligt Ryskspråkiga källor (tänk flashback) är det iaf den enda depån i trakten. Blir gärna rättad!

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

HIGHWAY PATROL: This is a grab from a Vatik dash cam video. Its shows a UKR ‘Hornet’ strike drone as it patrols the M-14 HWY from Mariupol to Melitopol. The Hornet is searching for military vehicles and fuel tankers-- part of UKR’s deepening attacks on Russian logistics.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

Text of a proposed American draft resolution to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency: Iran must provide the Agency with accurate information about the nuclear materials and facilities present in Iran without delay.

[Dan Gonzales @gonzadan]

An implication of this statement is that the U.S. has destroyed a sizable number of Iranian ballistic missiles located in underground bunkers. It has probably taken some time for both sides to figure this out. But it’s now a point of leverage for the U.S.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

Trump to NBC: We completely destroyed Iran's army and I believe it has only 21% or 22% of its pre-war missile stockpile left

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

Trump to NBC: The Supreme Leader of Iran is severely injured

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

Trump to NBC: Iran is losing between $400 and $500 million daily due to the naval blockade

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Schwedens Spezialpolizei hat den Chef des Aluminium-Schmelzwerks Kubal in Sundsvall verhaftet – wegen Sanktionsverletzungen. Kubal gehört Rusal – Putins Lieblingskonzern. Dasselbe Rusal das in Irland die Alumina-Fabrik Aughinish in Co. Limerick besitzt. Schwedische Steuerbehörden in einem vertraulichen Bericht: Oligarch Oleg Deripaska – unter EU-Sanktionen wegen Unterstützung von Russlands Kriegsmaschinerie – kontrolliert Rusal noch immer. Irlands Taoiseach Martin: Sanktionen gegen Aughinish wären „selbstzerstörerisch." OCCRP hat nachgewiesen dass irisches Aluminium über Rusal in russische Raketen fließt. Schweden verhaftet. Irland schaut weg.
Micheál Martin ist grundsätzlich pro-ukrainisch und pro-EU. Aber hier steckt er in einer klassischen Zwickmühle:
475 direkte Jobs in Aughinish. Mehrere hundert indirekte. Foynes und Askeaton – kleine Städte die komplett von der Fabrik abhängen. Wenn Aughinish schließt – sterben diese Gemeinden.
Das ist keine böse Absicht. Das ist das klassische Problem wenn Russland seine Abhängigkeiten tief in europäische Volkswirtschaften eingebaut hat.

Es schmerzt wenn man sie herausreißt.
Aber Schweden zeigt: Man kann handeln. Kubal hat auch Jobs. Trotzdem haben sie verhaftet. Europäische Verantwortung. https://t.co/eQPzzXy1Bf 🇸🇪🇮🇪🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦

[Dan Gonzales @gonzadan]

!! Birds apparently can snip the cables!

[Olena Tregub @OTregub]

Apocalyptic bird nest.

A Russian glide bomb knocks down a tree in Donbas. From the shattered branches rolls out a tiny bird’s nest.

Made of drone fiber-optic cable.

Source: Oleg Malchenko

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner traveled to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on Thursday, for consultations with a team of technical experts and nuclear scientists that could play a role in future atomic negotiations with Iran, according to Axios.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Multiple Iranian ballistic missiles struck the U.S. Air Force’s Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in the early weeks of the Iran War, severely damaging the facility which ran America’s air campaigns in the Middle East for over two decades and rendering it inoperable, a senior U.S. official and other people informed about the attack told Air & Space Forces Magazine. No personnel were injured in the attack as it was not in use at the time, with the air campaign against Iran being directed from a facility at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina.

[Dan Gonzales @gonzadan]

This is huge.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Ukrainian drone operators are now getting real-time data straight from US commercial satellites. Target detection and strike time cut by 90%. Images from Vantor reach the front in 15 minutes, WSJ reports.

https://t.co/i6xak4dNmk

[Dan Gonzales @gonzadan]

@fpleitgenCNN Did you ask him point blank if he would hand over the U-235?