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If DoD Wants Industry To Innovate It Will Have To Buy Things Like any long-standing, quasi-socialist enterprise, the Department of Defense (DoD) doesn’t understand how to motivate the private sector to innovate. As has been the case with other centrally planned economies – the former Soviet Union comes to mind – ...
U.S. Increases Sanctions On Russia While Orbital Sciences Buys Their Rocket Engines Relations between Russia and the West continue to deteriorate. The United States and the European Union responded to Moscow’s seizure of the Crimea and its efforts to destabilize Ukraine with sanctions that are estimated to cost Russia some $40 billion ...
An Education Reform No One is Talking About – But Should Be Performance-based funding is a first step in breaking the current funding structure that delivers dollars to all schools regardless of performance.
Move Over Luke Skywalker, Laser Weapons Are Here In 1977, George Lucas’s Star Wars popularized the idea of lasers, from individual weapons, the light saber, to those carried aboard X-wing and TIE fighters and the planet-killing Death Star. They were very cool but also a long time ago in a galaxy far, ...
Super Sub: Why The Navy’s Next “Boomer” Is The Most Important Program In The Pentagon Budget (From Forbes) Few Americans seem to give much thought anymore to the fact that Russia has over a thousand nuclear warheads aimed at America.  If even ten percent of those warheads ever reached these shores, it might well spell the end of the Republic.  So deterring ...
Disrupting an Aging Industry to Improve Teaching and Educational Outcomes RICHMOND (VA) TIMES-DISPATCH A new initiative announced recently by Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven Staples has the potential to substantially upgrade the content taught in schools across the commonwealth, and empower classroom tea ...
Managing Low Oil Prices To Enhance U.S. National Security While we are all reveling in prices at the pump approaching $2.50 a gallon and its salutary impact on the U.S. economy, we ought to consider the broader economic and national security implications of the ongoing decline in energy prices. We have been t ...
Robert S. Rangel To Succeed Gregory Dahlberg As Head Of Lockheed Martin’s Washington Office A former chief of staff to two defense secretaries and staff director of the House Armed Services Committee under three chairmen has been named to succeed Gregory R. Dahlberg as head of Lockheed Martin's Washington Office. Robert S. Rangel, 55, will ov ...
Prepare For Cyber Armageddon The United States is woefully unprepared to deal with the inevitability of a major cyber attack. Recent hacks of private companies such as Sony, Home Depot, Target and the like are warnings of greater dangers to come; like the proverbial canary in the ...
Next-Gen Jammer: Raytheon Leads A Revolution In Information Warfare (From Forbes) Raytheon scored a smashing success with the first airborne tests of its Next Generation Jammer in October.  Flying against threats mimicking the performance of the latest Chinese and Russian radars, the jammer demonstrated flawless performance operatin ...
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