GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Navy: New Sub Designs Accomodate Women

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Military.com

14February2011 8:42amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

The Navy says it's about to start spending money to design women's accommodations for Virginia-class and future ballistic-missile submarines.

The Navy officially lifted the ban on women serving aboard submarines in the spring. Twenty-four women have already begun training to serve as early as the end of this year as officers on ballistic-missile and guided-missile submarines.

The Navy's initial plans did not include enlisted women, or the smaller fast-attack submarines because of the perceived lack of privacy.

The Navy says it's about to start spending money to design women's accommodations for Virginia-class and future ballistic-missile submarines.

The Navy officially lifted the ban on women serving aboard submarines in the spring. Twenty-four women have already begun training to serve as early as the end of this year as officers on ballistic-missile and guided-missile submarines.

The Navy's initial plans did not include enlisted women, or the smaller fast-attack submarines because of the perceived lack of privacy. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Nuclear weapons risk spreading due to impasse: Ban

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Reuters

26January2011 2:55pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

(Reuters) - A deadlock in global negotiations on fissile material has increased the risk that nuclear weapons could spread or fall into the hands of violent political groups, the head of the United Nations warned on Wednesday.

Addressing the Conference on Disarmament, which has been unable to launch negotiations on any issue for more than a decade, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the impasse had "ominous implications for international security."

"The longer it persists, the graver the nuclear threat -- from existing arsenals, from the proliferation of such weapons and from their possible acquisition by terrorists," Ban told the United Nations-sponsored forum.

Halting production of bomb-making fissile material is widely seen as the next step in multilateral nuclear arms control.  (read full report)