During his talk at the IFPA “New Triad” Conference, General James “Hoss” Cartwright mentioned his blog. How did I miss this? Back in March, “Timmer” at The Daily Brief noted that General Cartwright had been “talking up his Command and Control Blog (you couldnt get to it even if I did link to it)” and […]
December 2005
I feel ridiculous even typing this. But enough companies have written in, asking me to help them market their products to the Defense Department, that I feel obliged to respond. Here’s my answer, in a nutshell: no. I received the latest come-on just a few days ago, from a company that claims to make radio […]
A while back, I briefly mentioned the Cormorant, Darpa’s idea for a sub-launched flying drone. Reader DS points us to the agency’s quick write-up of the 19-foot “multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle,” or MPUAV. The idea is that the drone could handle “all-weather reconnaissance, battle damage assessment, or specialized mission support (e.g., special forces re-supply)” for […]
* Houston’s Katrina crimewave * Pentagon’s wireless shift * Old planes’ new networks * Nuke lab blogger bows out * Chem plants still at risk * Euro-GPS takes off (background here) * Laser = IED finder * DHS = lame * Carter 1, eavesdroppers 0 (Big ups: JQP, Early Brief, RC, CA)
So I tracked down the staff of Hawlati, the only independent newspaper in Kurdistan, to get their take on press freedom in this country so utterly dominated by two powerful political parties. Editor Faisal Khalid says that only Hawlati will tackle stories related to government corruption, of which there is a lot in Kurdistan. In […]
