Since 9/11, nobody — and I mean nobody — has done more reporting on the government’s attempts to track terrorists through their data trails than the National Journal’s Shane Harris. (The guy ate Spam and knocked back Tequizas with John Poindexter, for chrissake!) So I couldn’t be more psyched to welcome Shane to the Defense […]
June 2006
* ACLU: stop brain scanning terrorists * How to tell if the NSA snoops on you * Bullets, password-protected * ONR’s million-dollar contest * Israel’s Gaza strike — and what lead up to it * Inside China’s space command center * Super Hornets’ sweet new radar * Freezing Falcons * America’s own cyanide IED * […]
Defense Tech loves robots, of course. But our favorite of ‘bot of all is the four-legged mechanical pack mules known as the BigDog. We’ve been barking about the robo-fido, ever since it was a sketch on a drawing pad. So imagine the joy at Defense Tech HQ when we learned that there was a new […]
Ten days ago, the New York Times and its sister paper, the International Herald Tribune, ran a pair of breathless stories, warning us that North Korea’s long-range Taepodong-2 missile was being fueled for “take off.” Worse, the weapon could have the ability to “deliver chemical, biological or perhaps nuclear warheads to targets as far away […]
The Marines put all their tacair eggs in one basket when they decided, in the early 1990s, to pass up the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and wait for a vertical take-off plane instead. That plane turned out to be the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, and the Marines have committed to buying as many as 500 to […]
