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The U.S. Army Needs to Field an Active Protection System Now Heavily involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army spent the last decade ramping up the force protection for its soldiers. It did so by investing in an array of technologies such as vehicle-borne and man portable Improvised Explosive Device jammers, en ...
New Afghan Air Force Finally Taking Flight If there is one virtue the U.S. national security establishment needs to embrace in its war against Islamic extremism, it is patience.  More than fourteen years in Afghanistan and almost thirteen in Iraq have demonstrated how difficult it is to accompl ...
Leidos-Lockheed IT Merger Fashions Federal Services Powerhouse (From Forbes) Leidos disclosed on Tuesday that it is merging with most of Lockheed Martin's IT unit in a $5 billion deal that will produce a federal services powerhouse.  The transaction will contribute significantly to the rationalization of the defense sector, sin ...
U.S. Air Dominance Rests On A Handful Of World Class Test And Training Facilities Click here to watch a video about the Southwest Defense Complex. The United States today is the world’s dominant air power. It achieved this position of advantage, in part, by developing and acquiring many of the world’s best military aircraft, weapons ...
Gamechanger: How Pratt & Whitney Transformed Itself To Lead A Revolution In Jet Propulsion (From Forbes) Airbus disclosed on January 20 that it has delivered the first aircraft in its A320neo family of narrow body jetliners to Lufthansa.  The "neo" designation stands for "new engine option," and in the case of the Lufthansa planes that means a revolutiona ...
The New Landscape In American Manufacturing: What It Takes To Succeed Today Click here to download the full study as PDF. Findings In Brief 1. The landscape of American manufacturing has changed. Manufacturing has been a key ingredient in America’s success as a nation — an engine of economic growth, innovation and upward mobil ...
Railgun Could Soon Revolutionize War At Sea Sometime in the next couple of years, the U.S. Navy plans to deploy an operational version of a railgun. For the few of you who don’t read Popular Science or Defense News, a railgun uses electromagnetic force to propel an object – in this case a warhea ...
Pentagon Contracting: Has “Best Value” Become An Excuse For Process Abuse? There's been a lot of complaining lately about the Pentagon's propensity to award weapons contracts to the lowest bidder.  However the alternative, called "best value," brings its own problems.  Foremost among those problems is that when price ceases t ...
PenFed Goes The Extra Mile For America’s Guardians There is no question that those who stand guard over the Republic need and deserve access to the best and most honest financial services.  It is difficult enough for those in uniform to manage a normal life, buy cars and homes and raise families withou ...
NASA Invests In Futuristic “Space Plane” The reports of the demise of the U.S. space industry may have been greatly exaggerated. A few years ago, this country hit a low point when NASA retired the Shuttle and canceled its replacement, the government was dependent on a single launch services p ...
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