Defense & Aerospace

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National Defense June 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Special Operations Forces in the Market For Global Communications Technology When they deploy to combat zones, special operations troops bring along a multitude of gizmos. Besides basic line-of-sight radios to communicate with their peers, they need devices to connect with other U.S. government agencies and allies.
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder? The U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid off, as the Navy is set to deploy the first laser small enough to fit on a ship.
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Marines Hope to Preserve Advances in Renewable Energy Over the past 10 years, the Marines have made significant inroads to becoming self-sustaining in the field because saving energy and water translates directly to moving faster and killing more bad guys.
National Defense June 2013 Stew Magnuson	Sticker Shock: $1 Billion for New Icebreaker The cost to build one new polar icebreaker for the Coast Guard may top $1 billion, a Congressional Research Service report recently stated.
National Defense June 2013 Stew Magnuson	Handheld Chemical Cloud Identifier Hits First Responder Market BLOCK Engineering has shrunk a fixed-sight chemical cloud detector down to where it can be carried into the field.
National Defense June 2013 Stew Magnuson	Catching Terrorists Carrying Bombs Still a Tough Problem to Solve When police in Watertown, Mass., honed in on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat stored in a backyard in April, they had several tools familiar to service members who fought in the Iraq and Afghan wars at their disposal.
National Defense June 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Face Fight-or-Flight Decisions The defense industry has only just begun to feel the sequester bite. Most of the top players continue to prosper even in a down market. Many companies in mid and lower tiers of the defense supply chain will likely be either financially unable or unwilling to weather the storm.
National Defense June 2013 Aleksandar D. Jovovic	U.S. Companies Set Sights on Middle East Arms Market Motivated by increasingly ambitious international growth targets, leading U.S. defense firms are justified in giving the region their full attention.
National Defense June 2013 Tim Larkins	Threats and Opportunities Growing in Cybersecurity The federal government will spend about $10 billion on cybersecurity in fiscal year 2013. That number could grow to $13 billion in fiscal year 2014.
National Defense June 2013 William I. Oberholtzer	Military Should Rethink How It Buys Equipment for Troops The challenge facing military equipment buyers today is which technologies to pursue. This is particularly true in the individual protective equipment arena.
National Defense June 2013 James E. Rainey	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories What can we do right now to improve how we fight modern wars? Second, how do we create, in the words of Gen. Robert Cone, "a structural imperative that ensures we do not lose the lessons of the last decade of war?"
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close.
National Defense May 2013 Dan Parsons	3D Printing Provides Fast, Practical Fixes While most 3D printing applications have been whimsical rather than practical -- the Army's mobile lab is producing real-world objects that are saving lives in war zones.
National Defense May 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	New Budget Spells More Uncertainty for DoD President Barack Obama sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $526.6 billion for fiscal year 2014. That top line, however, ignores the fact that it would be subject to a $52 billion sequester cut, as Congress mandated in the Budget Control Act of 2011.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Companies Vie for Chance to Update Bomb Disposal Robots With a chance to build the Navy's next bomb-disposal robots at their fingertips, unmanned systems manufacturers have an opportunity to tap into one of the only fully funded programs in the autonomous vehicle pipeline. Eager industry officials believe a contract award is imminent.
National Defense May 2013 Dan Parsons	Worldwide, Drones Are in High Demand The U.S. military may be the most high-profile owner and operator of unmanned aircraft, but it is far from the only customer of the controversial vehicles.
National Defense May 2013 Dan Parsons	Booming Unmanned Aircraft Industry Straining to Break Free of Regulations The advent of unmanned aerial vehicles taking flight within U.S. national airspace could mean an enormous economic windfall for aviation entrepreneurs and the nation's economy.
National Defense May 2013 Michael Sloane	Army Developing New Sensors and Lasers for Infantry Troops The new sensors and lasers will enhance the ability of infantry troops to engage targets accurately at distances, at all light levels, and in obscured environments.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.
National Defense May 2013 Canni & Levy	Agencies Becoming More Aggressive in Pursuit of Contractor Wrongdoing After years of congressional complaints, federal agencies are responding to concerns about how they handle contractor debarments and suspensions. New civilian debarment offices have emerged and are becoming active.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Eyes Deals With Satellite Industry to Fill Demand for Drone Communications A group of Pentagon officials was given three months to come up with a plan to boost the supply of satellite bandwidth that is needed to support the military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles.
National Defense May 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	U.S. Airport Perimeter Security Market in Decline U.S. airport perimeter manufacturers -- makers of fences, gates, sensors and cameras -- will likely face a steep drop in demand over the next several years, one report found.
National Defense May 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	DHS Beefs Up Cybersecurity Efforts With Monitoring, Authentication Tools The Department of Homeland Security is increasing its cybersecurity presence by using continuous monitoring tools and improving verifying measures, said a top department official.
National Defense May 2013 Carol A. Connolly	Companies Must Vet Business Partners Most people know the United States sanctions trade and other business activities with certain countries to advance its foreign policy and national security goals.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Army to Test Assay Reader Add-On for Smartphones Scientists at the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center have developed two clip-on attachments for an Android phone that can do just that, and they plan to test the devices within the next couple months.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Device Links iPhone Into Satellite System A United Arab Emirates-based satellite company is pitching a device to the U.S. military that can transform an iPhone 4 into a satellite phone.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Satellite Company Claims It Can Prevent Weather Data Gap Executives at PlanetIQ, a joint venture by several space companies, say they can solve the problem by launching a constellation of 12 low-earth orbit satellites that use a method called GPS radio occultation.
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