Vol. 94 No. 673, December 2009
Index
- Before war strategy is settled, political aims must be defined.
- Attracting new blood.
- Climate change.
- Lighter body armor.
- Life to become more difficult for some defense contractors.
- As if we didn't have enough enemies already.
- Competitive prototyping 'brings out the best' in contractors.
- Not much energy generated by DOE's greenbacks.
- Pentagon chastised for unreliable financial data.
- Carrying the load: wildland firefighters add robotic systems to their wish list.
- National guard to create new disaster response teams.
- New tunnel detection test site in the works.
- Northcom, Mexican military sharing counter-drug Intel.
- Soldiers track each other with smart PDAs.
- Buying a cyberattack.
- Writing simulation software for dummies.
- A wall of Tasers.
- Polar ice surveillance at rock bottom prices.
- Defense energy goals require collaboration with sister agencies.
- Energy challenge: in the race to be green, Navy moves to the front of the pack.
- Gargantuan thirst for fuel creates logistical nightmare for marines.
- The unseen cyber-war: national-security infrastructure faces relentless cyberespionage campaign.
- Calif. ranchers wield British radar to detect illegal border crossers.
- Good fences, good neighbors: Saudi Arabia securing its borders with sensors and software.
- Playing nice: integrating civilian agencies into military operations remains difficult.
- National Guard sends agriculture teams to Afghanistan.
- New civilian force to conduct stability operations.
- Advise, assist, attack: army leaders prepare for war, peace and everything in between.
- Troops learn from foreign role-players.
- Hybrid education: increasingly complex operations force rapid changes in Army training.
- Army to create education programs for soldiers who are too busy to go to school.
- Soft power: military video games could morph into peace-building simulations.
- Marines use simulations to hone 'critical thinking' skills.
- From battlefield to desktop: to train troops, Army creates digital reenactments of roadside bomb attacks.
- Ft. Polk brigade to produce 6,000 advisors per year to train Iraqi and Afghan forces.
- In times of Pentagon budget gloom, sunnier outlook for simulation industry.
- On deck: navy sailors experience 'virtual' shipboard flight operations.
- Theater training: military in Korea expands use of simulations in war games.
- Industry should prepare for review of ethics programs.
- AFEI announces award winners.
- Scholarships available for STEM students.
- NDIA calendar: upcoming exhibits, shows and events.