Our friends from Soldier Systems have a great post this week on a gadget designed to generate power through kinetic energy. We’re used to hearing one of the military’s biggest complaints: “we love all the gizmos, it’s just that we hate the short battery life.” Well, this could be the answer for Joes on the […]
From the monthly archives:
August 2009
This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. There is a sleeper in the race for fielding more unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capability worldwide — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is already flying a reduced-signature Predator C and the company is looking to bank its existing gains. “They already have the ground stations and […]
Dwelling House Savings and Loan, a 119-year-old thrift, was shut down by federal regulators on Friday August 14th. The small thrift was said to have had only about $13.8 million in deposits. Federal regulators have been concerned about account security at Dwelling House Savings & Loan for several years. The S&L suffered a severe blow […]
As journalists we deal with information regarding the wars on a near-constant basis. Usually we approach what we see with stoic eyes — a function of our mission to bring you the news as objectively as possible — but occasionally that’s impossible. This morning I received an email from the local chapter of the U.S. […]
This article first appeared in Defense Technology International. One of the most ambitious forecasting projects of late is the U.S. Air Force’s Blue Horizons II, which wrapped in 2008, and was presented at a conference here in May by Col. John Geis, director of the Center for Strategy and Technology at Maxwell AFB, Ala. Ambitious? […]
