Anyone who can remember Popular Mechanics magazines as far back as the 1950s can remember illustrated stories on the coming super-suits — those metal exoskeletons that would let humans lift incredible amounts of weight and run as fast as a speeding bullet. The concept got a boost in 1986 when Sigourney Weaver donned an oversized […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2010
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyber Warfare correspondent Almost three years ago here on DefenseTech we blogged about cyber assassination and received some ‘interesting’ feedback on and off the blog. Some events that were made public recently demand we revisit this topic. Just recently, a news article appeared in the Daily Sun – Voice […]
Contributed by Aviation Week’s Aerospace Daily and Defense Report The next significant air-launched weapons battle is about to heat up with the U.S. Army’s forthcoming solicitation for a single Hellfire, Javelin and TOW missile replacement called the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). JAGM could be worth billions of dollars, and will be integrated onto six platforms […]
There are procurement programs and there are “one of those programs” procurement programs. The Littoral Combat Ship seems in the running to be the latter. The ship has wrestled with more than its share of glitches and programmatic snags since the beginning — the most recent being the delay of the contractor downselect and the revelation that […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare correspondent Protecting and ensuring the integrity and continuity of the United States’ critical infrastructure is essential to our nation’s security, public health and safety, as well as our economic vitality. Last week General Keith Alexander, director of the new U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, acknowledged […]
