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October 2009

Now, I’m not a gratuitous poster of “slam cam” vids, but I watched this the other day on Military.com’s Shock and Awe channel and was just transfixed. Basically, if you ignore the dorky soundtrack and the jingoistic Bush quotes injected into the audio, this video has some very impressive imagery. I’m amazed at the clarity […]

In another case of damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t, the Army’s getting zinged by the GAO on its armor testing procedure. We reported on the investigation that prompted this GAO look earlier this year, but the long and the short of it is that government auditors found flaws in how the Army was testing the first prototypes of its […]

Over the past year cyber exploitation activity has grown more sophisticated, more targeted, and more serious. The Global Intelligence Community believes these trends to continue in the coming year. With the realization of the true threat we face from acts of cyber aggression comes a demand for highly qualified resources to protect our information assets […]

The tunes…the hair…the exciting C-5 Galaxy C-141 Starlifter … Why wouldn’t you just sign up after watching this? Great video posted by DoD Buzz commenter Daniel Russ at CivilianMilitaryIntelligenceGroup​.com. Have a great weekend. – Christian

We wrote about this back in March…that industry was skeptical that the Army would seriously pursue a subcompact rifle for Joes who can’t carry an M4 but need the punch of a rifle in a pistol package (truck drivers, tankers, pilots, officers). Well, after talking with Col. Doug Tamilio yesterday about the Wanat report, I […]