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July 2009

More F-22s — Yes or No(survey software)

I guess I’m going to have to dive in here…though I’m reluctant to because the sides are so polarized in the issue. The fight in the Senate is going on over the added funding for F-22s inserted into the 2010 DoD budget by Raptor allies in states with key Raptor manufacturing facilities. Sens. McCain and […]

This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. With the growing use of King Air twin-turboprops for surveillance, a new venture is offering to deliver outfitted platforms on short notice by having a pipeline of aircraft in modification. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Aerial Surveillance Systems Inc. (ASSI) has selected modification specialist Stevens Aviation to install […]

Ok…so let me get this straight. Leon Panetta cancelled a secret CIA program to kill or capture Al Qaeda operatives at close range — meaning using hit teams to do the dirty work instead of Predator drones. The Bush administration makes a presidential finding calling for the assassination or capture of AQ operatives known to […]

Advance information did not prompt a response. The U.S. Government now admits they did not properly handle the situation. Sources have revealed that the South Korean government knew in advance that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that hit multiple web sites of major institutions in South Korea had begun earlier in the United […]