DOD's Black-Start Exercises Explore What Happens When Utilities Go Dark
Read at airandspaceforces.comOSD had run four black-start exercises ($250-500K each); Air Force logged ~240 notable outages in FY2018.
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ToneNeutral80% sure
The item reports factual details about exercises conducted and outages logged without stressing danger, vulnerability, fear, readiness, progress, or calm.Urgency0.3070% sure
The text presents background information on past exercises and historical outage counts from FY2018 without any plan, ongoing work, call for action, or active emergency.StanceNeutral90% sure
The item simply reports on exercises and outages without backing, challenging, doubting, or arguing against the policy of bases running without the civilian grid.SignalAction75% sure
The text states that OSD had run four black-start exercises, which qualifies as drills/tests that were conducted.Pull the plug drillsLaws and budgetsActionNeutral tone