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How Persistent Surveillance Teams Stay Effective
The Problem With Never Blinking Persistent surveillance sounds straightforward: watch a target continuously and report what you see. In practice, it’s one of the most demanding intelligence operations the military runs. Analysts rotate through shifts. Sensors require calibration. Data feeds drop and resume. The “persistent” part depends entirely on whether humans and systems can maintain…
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How Paul Leongas Went From Pouring Pints to Pouring Foundations
People who knew me behind the bar are sometimes surprised by what I do now. For a long stretch of my life, my work was hospitality. Today it is commercial real estate. The two look unrelated from the outside, but the move from one to the other made complete sense to me, and this site…
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Coordinating 74 Agencies for a National Special Security Event
When a NATO Summit Comes to Town A NATO summit is not just a diplomatic gathering. It’s a security operation that pulls in local police, federal agencies, military units, intelligence services, and about sixty other organizations that all need to work from the same playbook. Jason Goins Air Force officer coordinated readiness for a National…
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Paul Leongas on the Family Business, From The Curragh to Holland Pub
Business runs in my family. It always has. When people ask Paul Leongas about his background, the story does not start with real estate. It starts with my sisters and me buying The Curragh Traditional Irish Pub, and it includes a business my family still runs, Holland Pub LLC, up in Holland, Michigan. There is…
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What Project Arc Proved About Fixing Problems on the Ground
Engineers Belong Where the Problems Are Most maintenance backlogs in the Air Force don’t exist because nobody knows about them. They exist because the people who can solve them sit in offices hundreds of miles from the flight line. Jason Goins Air Force officer and scientist launched Project Arc to test a different model: put…
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Paul Leongas on Buying The Curragh With His Sisters Right Out of Michigan State
Most people ease into business. We jumped. Not long after I left Michigan State University, my sisters Sophia and Lydia and I bought The Curragh Traditional Irish Pub in Schaumburg, Illinois. We were a family with an idea and not much of a safety net, and we learned the business by running it. Buying a…