This article first appeareed in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. Pentagon officials have not yet decided whether an upcoming KC-X competition between Boeing and a Northrop Grumman/EADS North America team to build new aerial refueling tankers will be managed by the U.S. Air Force or the Defense Department’s acquisition chief, according to David Van Buren, […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2009
Our boy Bob Cox at the Ft. Worth Star Telegram sent me a hilarious blurb he wrote for his paper on an embarrassing admission by one of Bell’s top officials recently. Bob spotted an interesting little vehicle prototype a few years ago at the international air show in Farnborough and wrote about the thing, which […]
The discovery of GhostNet, the cyber spying network that spanned across 103, countries was a threshold event in the new age of cyber warfare and espionage. Can you even imagine if something like this would happen to a physical spy network where real human spies are involved? With all the investigations, work and publicity, we […]
When the Department of the Navy temporarily runs low on spending money, it can’t put routine carrier maintenance on a Visa card, nor take out a Citibank mortgage on a hospital ship to pay huge fleet fuel-oil invoices. It has to defer, or forego altogether, things really needed now. The USN is currently suffering a […]
The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences started out as a small forum to exchange cutting edge ideas about –as the name implies– science and technology. That was in 1984. Today, appropriately enough, the internet has helped the TED lecture series explode into a groundbreaking dissemination of cutting edge ideas that effect every facet of the […]
