* New CEO for CIA fund * Israel war probe pushes on * GIs’ cute robot rescuer * NASA’s fire-fighting drone (background here) * Predators wanna crash your party * More missiles for Iran * Hack trouble for robo-sensors? * Ray gun chief’s stock shenanigans? * Martian traffic jam * Cruise missiles for everyone * […]
August 2006
ABCNews.com is running a story on Michael De Kort, the Lockheed whisteblower that’s drawing a bunch of attention. for airing his complaints about the company’s shoddy Coast Guard work for on YouTube. The network website was silly enough to quote yours truly about the subject. Noah Shac[h]tman, editor-in-chief of DefenseTech.org, which monitors military happenings both […]
For a long time, now, the Pentagon has been looking to land diesel-electric hybrid vehicles to improve fuel economy, reduce logistics and allow power export. But after a decade of research and development, military hybrids are still years away from production, as I describe in detail in the current National Defense Magazine: Right now, we […]
In the 1990s, Admiral Arthur Cebrowski began pushing the unorthodox idea that the Pentagon had to change itself, from a relatively-small collection of heavy, plodding forces to a larger array of lighter, quicker, cheaper, better-networked units. By 2001, the notion — known alternatively as “revolution in military affairs” or “force transformation” — had become official […]
* Rummy: Korea no threat * Nork nuke test site? (more here) * Yoga vs. IEDs * “Hacking the Himalayas“ * Holes in Heathrow case? (more here) * Forward air control’s big upgrade * “Fissure-guided missile“ * Drones + cluster bombs * Sleek, stylish pepper spray * Hummer on steroids * Total war, RIP * […]
