Vol. 92 No. 654, May - May 2008
Index
- Defense industrial base: plans needed to ensure soft landing.
- Weapons budget: the more you spend, the less you buy.
- "Does the general staff there in the Pentagon understand that they could very well go down in history as incompetent and inadequate to the most important challenge of this decade in American history?".
- "It's not a technology problem. It's governance and culture".
- "We have fielded over 600 Internet cafes on the ground.".
- 'IED Defeat Task Force' also in the private sector.
- Battling for sales: joint strike fighter bracing for marketing wars.
- Influx of scientists and engineers at the Pentagon.
- Wanted: army contracting officers.
- Underground war: border tunnel problem worsening as fences go up.
- Want to know how to build a virtual fence? ask border patrol.
- TSA setting up cargo screening system.
- Wanted: one unarmed aerial vehicle; must be able to take off from ships.
- Water, climate change: recipe for trouble?
- On the mend: new ships are breaking the bank so the Navy is fixing its old ones.
- Fire away: army in a rush to produce new cannon.
- Clarification.
- Corrections.
- Balancing act: uncertainty about budgets, workforce shape future of U.S. weapons industry.
- Power hungry: market for synthetic aviation fuels off to a shaky start.
- Man vs. machine: ground robots' place in military at risk, experts warn.
- Armed robots sidelined in Iraqi fight.
- Navy to field a family of next-generation bomb disposal robots.
- Piercing the fog: to succeed, soldier 'need to see the environment'.
- Army starts over with aerial common sensor.
- Urban surveillance still falling short, say army commanders.
- Not cleared to fly: worries about mid-air collisions keep civilian drones grounded.
- Tough calls: in today's wars, air strikes under fire.
- Weapon of choice: technology upgrades give edge to ground-attack pilots.
- Exchange program helps services acquire laser missiles for free.
- Bombers will fly closer to the ground in upcoming deployment.
- Lightweight fabric blocks radiation.
- Polymer magazine developed for assault rifle.
- Radar vision: smoke, snow, gloom of night not a problem.
- U.S. company helps China monitor oil spill.
- Contractors' conflicts of interest under scrutiny.
- Birdies for the Brave.
- NDIA endorses 'Project Lead the Way'.
- Outstanding ROTC officers receive Codd Award.
- Smola named navy 'tester of the year'.
- NDIA calendar: upcoming exhibits, shows and events.