Defense
Russian Rockets Put Pentagon Space Plans In Decaying Orbit On Capitol Hill (From Forbes)
America's military depends heavily on satellites for things like secure communications and warning of missile attacks, but U.S. access to space is looking less and less assured. United Launch Alliance, the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that has ...
National Commission on the Future of the Army Produces Politically Correct Report
The National Commission on the Future of the Army (NCFA) missed the opportunity of a generation to help place that Service on a sound strategic, structural and budgetary footing. Instead, the NCFA report is a politically correct document that focused m ...
Gene Wars: Targeted Mutations Will Spawn Unique Dangers, And Soon (From Forbes)
Scientists have discovered a cheap and easy way of editing the genes of any living organism. Depending on how the modifications are made, they might permanently alter the genetic endowment of later generations. A related development speeds the transm ...
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 ...