I was in Arizona last week, right on the Mexican border. And let me tell you, a whole bunch of folks are about to make asses of themselves there on Friday. 2,200 federal agents are assigned to keep watch over the 260-mile stretch of border known as the “Tucson Sector,” which covers pretty much the […]
March 2005
For decades, telemedicine guru and former MASH surgeon Dr. Richard Satava has been pushing the Defense Department to fund systems for remote and robotically-controlled operating rooms. He’s not mentioned in the AP article below. But you can see his fingerprints all over this $12 million Darpa grant to “develop an unmanned ‘trauma pod’ designed to […]
“The Navy has formally agreed to lease a Swedish submarine and its crew for a year so U.S. nuclear-powered subs… can practice hunting it,” the Virginian-Pilot reports. The Swedish navy will send a Gotland-class sub to San Diego, where it will help [U.S. Fleet Forces Command] train to combat the potential threat of diesel-powered submarines […]
Ever since it was just a wee little $92 billion program, Defense Tech has been ranting about the spiraling costs and doe-eyed expectations behind Future Combat Systems, the Army’s gargantuan modernization plan. Now that the project — meant to almost reinvent just about every aspect of warfighting, almost simultaneously — is moving north of $145 […]
St. Patrick’s Day was just supposed to be another day of routine training for undersea researchers at the University of Hawaii. But then, they found something extraordinary 870 meters down, off of Barbers Point, Oahu: a mammoth, World War II-era Japanese sub, meant for biological combat. The submarine is from the I-400 Sensuikan Toku class […]
