TASS

• ECS, a leader in advanced technology, science, and engineering solutions and an ASGN (NYSE: ASGN) brand, has been named a prime contractor on a $1.25 billion, five-year contract to provide technical, analytical, and program support services to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
• The DARPA Technical and Analytical Support Services (TASS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quality (IDIQ) contract covers a broad range of high-level advisory and assistance services designed to help DARPA meet the needs of its dynamic research and development mission.
• In 2018, ECS was one of seven awardees on a five-year $850 million IDIQ by DARPA.
• As an incumbent on the new IDIQ contract, ECS will continue to provide DARPA with a range of professional services including operational and research analysis, acquisition support, program oversight, and business and financial management.

• Western news sources regularly report on civilian deaths on the Ukrainian side of the front lines of the war in Ukraine.
• In May 2023, the United Nations reported 8,791 civilians have died and 14,815 have been injured in Ukraine since February 2022.
• Exceptions to this — when the western media has widely reported on casualties behind Russian lines — have largely been when Russian forces have been accused of atrocities.

Civilian casualties prior to 2022

• The war in Ukraine precedes February 2022, so statistics amassed since then aren’t telling the whole story of the conflict.
• In the West, the war is largely perceived to have begun in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin’s government launched what it described as a “special military operation” and invaded Ukraine.
• In January 2022, the United Nations recorded 3,106 conflict-related civilian deaths and as many as 7,000 wounded in fighting in Ukraine up to that point.

Growing threats to civilians

• While many of these weapons have good accuracy, they nonetheless are too often fired by both sides on the basis of inaccurate or flawed intelligence.
• Even after the fighting has moved on from a particular area, the war leaves behind a legacy of unexploded munitions.
• Cluster munitions are another particular threat to civilians long after the fighting has moved on from a given area.

Cluster bomb use likely to increase

• The United States — also not a signatory to the convention — has recently decided to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions from its own stocks.
• That decision can only increase their use by both Ukraine and Russia, meaning that civilians on both sides of the front line will inevitably fall victim to unexploded munitions over time.
• The U.S. claims the munitions it plans to provide Ukraine will leave behind no more than three per cent of the munitions unexploded.

• Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) (“Bausch + Lomb”), a leading global eye health company dedicated to helping people see better to live better, today announced the U.S. launch of StableVisc™ cohesive ophthalmic viscosurgical device (OVD) as well as TotalVisc™ Viscoelastic System.
• TotalVisc Viscoelastic System includes both StableVisc and ClearVisc™, a dispersive OVD, and protects ocular tissue during the surgical procedure.
• TotalVisc is the only dual pack in the United States that includes a dispersive and cohesive OVD formulated with sorbitol.
• Federal (USA) law restricts this device to the sale by or on the order of a physician.

• In recent testing this new product, containerized DevOps and database workloads running on 22dot6 Valence software benefit from ease of administration, enhanced performance, multiplatform support, data lifecycle management, and more.
• Valence universal storage software unifies physical, virtual, on-premise, and cloud resources locally and globally, creating a TASS architecture.
• 22dot6 is a software, hardware and systems design and developer providing a full-service delivery and support model with user-definable and application-specific options globally.
• Software standalone installations can utilize existing resources, off-the-shelf, commodity-based hardware (COTS), third-party technologies, or 22dot6 purpose-built appliances.