As if you weren’t nervous enough in the airport. The Transportation Security Administration has started to hunt for technologies that’ll secretly spot “suspicious behavior” in passengers. The request for information, filed by the minds of the William J. Hughes Technical Center in the Atlantic City Airport, hopes to find ways to “sense patterns of individuals’ […]
November 2004
I think we all winced when we read, back in September, about the Delta pilot who was hit in the eye by a laser while flying a 737. Or about the 20 year-old Los Alamos intern who was zapped during a July experiment. Air Force researchers must not have liked what they read, either. That’s […]
IED factories, packed with radios and plastic explosives. Martyr training manuals. Illicitly-used mosques, pinpointed on a map. That’s all part of an eye-popping PowerPoint presentation, obtained by Military.com, “Telling the Story of Fallujah to the Word.” Allegedly created by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and the Multi-National Corps — Iraq, the slide show is meant […]
- From commerical satellite pictures, the Army is putting together 3D maps of Mosul and Fallujah. – Out of a 737 passenger jet, Boeing is making an anti-sub spyplane. – In online chat rooms, the CIA and the National Science Foundation are hoping to catch terrorists scheming. THERE’S MORE: With a program called FalconView, the […]
Maybe it was out of sheer laziness. Maybe it was because so many others have been covering the subject so thoroughly. But I haven’t been blogging about the ongoing Boeing-USAF tanker scandal, even though the mess has drained billions in taxpayer funds, cost several Air Force leaders their jobs, and made for some of Washington’s […]
