Two Democratic Senators thought they had a deal: they’d vote for the Bush Administration’s missile defense program, and the Pentagon wouldn’t deploy new anti-missile systems until they were properly tested. Now, it seems, the Senators, Michigan’s Carl Levin on Michigan and Rhode Island’s Jack Reed, were snookered. Global Security Newswire reports: (Levin and Reed) said […]
June 2003
“The Technical Support Working Group has been toiling against terror for years, but its technologically advanced work has been overshadowed by DARPA,” Wired News says. “Now TSWG is stepping into the limelight.“ TSWG has historically focused on short-term projects that create usable prototypes to solve real-world problems. The group’s 2002 annual report points to the […]
Pilots at New Mexico’s Kirtland Air Force Base don’t have planes equipped with ray guns — yet. But they’ll soon have a new, F-16 simulator, to help them practice for the day that they do. “The F-16 model is a smaller version of the airborne laser weapon already under development for use on a Boeing […]
In March, Energy Department officials promised to follow up on allegations of lax security at Sandia National Laboratories, one of the country’s most important military research centers. Senate Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley says the Department has welched on that promise. The New York Times reports: The two investigators who raised questions about security at […]
“American teams may be struggling to find chemical weapons and other poisonous materials in Iraq,” the New York Times reports, “but tens of thousands of bombs and barrels filled with blistering agents and nerve gas lie scattered in the Baltic Sea and the eastern Atlantic.“ American, British and Soviet military dumped them there after World […]
