About Defense Tech

Technology is shaping how wars are fought, borders are protected, crooks are caught, and individual rights are defined.

Defense Tech, a Military​.com site, stays on top of these changes, rounding up the day’s news, linking to sources of information, and providing analysis on what’s ahead.

From Predator drones to roadside bombs, computer security to nuclear threats, body armor to missile defense, the site aims to examine the intersection of technology and defense from every angle, covering the exploits of soldiers and hackers, madmen and geniuses, inventors and dictators.

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Defense Tech’s Authors

John Reed

John Reed is the Washington, DC-based editor of Military.com’s Defense Tech blog and the associate editor of DoDBuzz.

Before joining Military​.com he was the air warfare staff writer for Defense News, where he covered major trends in military aviation and the defense industry around the world.

From August 2007 to November 2009, Reed covered the U.S. Air Force and Congress for InsideDefense​.com and its sister publication Inside the Air Force.

Before joining Inside Defense in August 2007, Reed worked in corporate sales and business development for a Swedish IT firm, The Meltwater Group in Mountain View CA, and Philadelphia, PA. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter at the Tracy Press and the Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley Press-Banner newspapers in California.

A New England native, Reed graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a dual degree in international affairs and history.

Christian Lowe

Christian was a senior writer for The Politico covering defense and national security issues after spending five years with the Military Times newspapers in Springfield Va. Always running to the sound of the guns, he has covered military operations worldwide, embedding with Army and Marine units in both Iraq and Afghanistan, observing detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, covering humanitarian missions in Lebanon and New Orleans, participating in training exercises at military bases from California to Florida and reporting on military policy and budgets in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.

Christian traveled to Afghanistan in 2002 and 2004, spending time in Kabul, Khost and Kandahar chasing the bin Laden trail and scouring the countryside with U.S. forces for Taliban holdouts. He went to Iraq in June of 2003, living in downtown Baghdad and traveling throughout the south of the country for six weeks. Christian returned to Iraq in late 2005, spending a month in Ramadi during the December parliamentary elections and patrolling the streets of Hit in al Anbar province with the U.S. Marines during the new year.

In 2005, Christian was awarded the Associated Press Managing Editor’s Association award for investigative journalism after exposing that the Marine Corps had fielded tens of thousands of body armor vests to troops in Iraq that had not passed quality assurance testing by government auditors. He was also part of an Emmy-nominated documentary team that followed a group of Marine Corps officers from their first days of officer training to the battlefields of Iraq.

In 2008, Christian went back to Iraq for four weeks as Military.com’s first embed.

Raised in Charlottesville, Va., and a graduate of the University of Virginia, Christian lives on Capitol Hill with his wife Catherine, daughter Eliza, son Carter and his Jack Russell terriers Noor Whali and Banjo. When he’s not sniffing around for the latest defense and military news, he likes to take advantage of any opportunity to slip out of town to go hunting, fishing or surfing.

Kevin Coleman

Kevin G. Coleman is a Certified Management Consultant and Strategic Advisor with the Technolytics Institute. He is the former Chief Strategist of Netscape and a veteran of the consulting and technology industries. With nearly two decades of experience, he advises leaders of business, government and industry throughout the world on strategic issues including security and technology. His business clients include Pepsi, FedEx, GE, Dell, Sun, BEA Systems, Intel, Novell, Lockheed, Michelin, Ford, and other business icons. Almost one quarter of his consulting has been with organizations based outside the U.S. providing him with a unique perspective on the challenges, risks and opportunities of international business. He has researched and written about subject matter critical to national security and has testified before Congress as well as provided dozens of briefing at the Board of Directors Level.

Ward Carroll

Ward Carroll is the editor of Military​.com. During his 20-year Navy career he served in four different F-14 squadrons based at NAS Oceana and was the operations officer for Carrier Air Wing One. He was editor of Approach magazine and is currently a contributing editor for Naval Aviation News. His three books about a Tomcat pilot — Punk’s War, Punk’s Wing, and Punk’s Fight — have been widely praised for their realistic portrayals of a Naval Aviator’s life. His latest novel, Militia Kill, was recently published by Signet.

Colin Clark

Colin Clark is editor of DoDBuzz and Pentagon correspondent for Military​.com. Colin joined the Military​.com team from Space News, where he covered Congress, intelligence and regulatory affairs.

Before that, he founded and edited for three years the Washington Aerospace Briefing, a twice-weekly Space News publication. He covered national security issues for Congressional Quarterly and was editor of Defense News before that. His first job covering defense was with Defense Week, where he won a national award for his coverage of the first Quadrennial Defense Review.

Colin spent almost four years as a foreign correspondent in the mid-1980s, covering the civil wars, coups and famines of East Africa for Voice of America, the Christian Science Monitor and Australian Broadcasting Corporation. While there he spent far too much time passing out cigarettes to nervous soldiers manning checkpoints.

Colin lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Judith, and son. His wife is a former Australian diplomat. He fishes wherever he can, reads heaps of science fiction and history and gets a kick out of sharing good wine with his neighbors and friends on his front porch.

Bryant Jordan

Bryant Jordan is an associate editor for Military​.com. Before joining Military​.com Jordan was a staff writer and deputy news editor for Military Times newspapers in Springfield, Va., where he most recently covered Air Force mobility command, security forces, and faith and values. He covered Air Force support missions during the Kosovo War and in 2006 the aeromedical evacuation mission out of Balad Air Base, Iraq. A journalist since 1979, Jordan also covered stories in Lebanon, Gaza and Morocco. During the Vietnam War he was assigned to 15th Admin. Co., 1st Cavalry Division, Bien Hoa Army Base.

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– Slate

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– Internet magazine

“Useful and timely.“
– Salon

“One of the best and most up-to-date resources on the technology of warfighting.“
– MSNBC

“Probably the best place to get the inside scoop on the defense industry.“
– Situation​.net

“I *do* read your site. Everyone at the Pentagon does, from time to time.“
– anonymous Defense Department official