Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz revealed in his major speech at the Air Force Association conference that the service began a wide-ranging technology study to come up with approaches that may help the service answer some of its pressing mission challenges and help find technologies that should underwrite our future.. Schwartz told […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2009
The boys from DoD Buzz are all over the Air Force Association’s 2009 annual conference outside DC for the next few days and I thought I’d preview one of the videos they shot. Bryant Jordan shot a quick floor video of Aurora Flight Sciences’ Scate, or what we like to call the “drone in a […]
Our friends at Soldier Systems have been tracking the development of a new camo scheme designed for the Afghan fight by Army officials who were mandated by congress to do so after hearing complaints from the field. Their reporting shows that the service has basically tweaked the pixel pattern a bit, added some coyote brown […]
Okay, I’m totally fired up about this ambush in Ganjgal that needlessly took the lives of three Marines, a Corpsman and nine Afghan security forces. A huge thanks to Mike j who forwarded me Jonathan Landay’s audio report from the battle. It’s about 15 minutes long and I gotta say, it is a MUST listen. […]
Sorry for the delay in posting, folks. Was on a much-needed vacation with the family that recharged my batteries and prepared me for what is certain to be a very newsy fall. One thing I wanted to make a note of with our readers is a story that ran last week on Military.com from a […]
