Test BSP-2838 - Story with Image as lead
On June 17, 2023, fire claimed Portacool’s 300,000-square-foot production facility and the ability to make Portacool’s unique housings - which had helped sustain more than 400 local jobs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently discovered something strange: a rectangular device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof, over the ledge and into the administrator’s window one floor below.
It didn’t take long for the employee — an IT specialist — to figure out the device was a transceiver that communicates with Elon Musk’s vast and private Starlink satellite network. Concerned that the equipment violated federal laws designed to protect public data, staffers reported the discovery to superiors and the agency’s internal watchdog.