My brother Dan was one of the lucky ones; he left New Orleans long before Katrina made landfall. But even the fortunate, like him, have no idea whether they will have homes or jobs when they return — and may not know for weeks, or even months. Dan is about to start the 1400-mile drive […]
August 2005
The idea is pretty wild, even for the dreamers at Darpa: build a giant blimp that can haul 1,800 soldiers and their gear 12,000 nautical miles, in less than a week. But the Pentagon’s research arm is serious enough about the project, code-named Walrus, to hand out more than $6 million to Lockheed Martin and […]
“Todays military satellites “take about two minutes to transfer a simple photo,” Defense News notes. “That same image could take about 23 seconds on the next-generation Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites, which will start to go up in the next few years.“ The third wave of U.S. orbiters, scheduled for launch in the mid-2010s, “could […]
* Cops n’ robot in Chicago standoff * Get your secret government dossier * Navy’s giant, floating runway * FBI: peace marchers = terrorists * Unmanned firefighters (background here) * Dumb, needy, lovable compu-brains (Big ups: JQP)
Captain Daniel Green is an battlefield surgeon, treating soldiers and Iraqi civilians around Baghdad’s Green Zone. He has seen more casualties — and interacted with more Iraqis — than the vast majority of GIs over there. And that has given the captain a different perspective on this war. He isn’t happy with how it’s being […]
