The latest General Accounting Office study on the Army’s massive modernization program finds — surprise — that there are ‘development risks’ involved in the the communications components. Since Future Combat Systems, or FCS, will network manned and unmanned vehicles and weapons, if the communications don’t work, the system is a dud. Fair enough. The larger […]
From the monthly archives:
July 2005
Every year DARPA has its own annual gathering of the clans DARPATech. This one is the 24th, scheduled for the week of August 9 in Anaheim. The theme for 2005 (and for 2004) is Bridge the Gap. The gap is the difference between what U.S. force can do today and the technological possibilities for the […]
Want to secure your borders? Heres a state of the art model to look at: – First, a razor wire fence; – Then a road for vehicle patrols; – Another fence that sends out an alarm when it is cut; – A 400 foot gap covered with motion sensors and night vision cameras (the Soviets […]
In 2002, the Department of Justice indicted (in absentia) a resident of the UK, Gary McKinnon, of hacking into DOD and NASA computers and causing almost a million dollars worth of damages. Yesterday, they got around to trying to extradite him for trial. McKinnon, a self described UFO fan, was apparently searching for files labeled […]
Some people in the Pentagon and the industry wonder if the F-35 will be the last manned fighter the U.S. will ever build. I don’t think it will come to that, but they say to watch UCAVs [unmanned combat aerial vehicles, or killer drones] and the possibility for deploying a UCAV/manned combination (1 plane, 1 […]
