Defense & Aerospace

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National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Acquisition of Battle Network Slowed Down by Red Tape The Army's fast-track method of buying mobile networks for deployed soldiers could be in jeopardy as long as it remains bound by existing procurement regulations, government and industry sources said.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Budget Cuts Are Only Prelude to Future 'Grand Bargain' Politicians and think tanks have been hyperventilating over the $487 billion budget cut that the Pentagon will have to make during the next decade.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Plant DNA May Protect Military Supply Chain New York-based Applied DNA Sciences is working with the Defense Logistics Agency to use the hereditary traits of plants to keep parts that have been tampered with out of military electronic systems.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Shredded Documents Brought Back to Life The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun an initial investigation into information security on the battlefield -- how U.S. data might be vulnerable and how troops could use confiscated scraps to gather intelligence.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Scientists Make Quantum Leap in Solar Power In its quest for alternative sources of power, the military has been turning to solar panels. The services have been trying them out on installations and on the backs of troops.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Teams Look to Crowd-Source Military Vehicle Design The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has given contracts to the Georgia Institute of Technology, Vanderbilt University and General Electric to come up with open-source software that allows for easy widespread collaboration.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 David Schneider	Dream Jobs 2012: Building a Hybrid-Electric, Unmanned Heliplane The leader of Aerovel's avionics design team, John Stafford, gravitates to small, informal companies
National Defense March 2012 McDonald & Beehler	Defense-Funded Biofuels Program Can Spur Production and Lower Risk to U.S. Government In the wake of failed federal loan guarantees for green companies such as Solyndra and Range Fuels, the alternative-energy industry needs solutions that decrease government risk and elicit bipartisan support.
National Defense March 2012	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Sequestration offers opportunities for industry... Flexible approaches are required if we hope to defeat the enemies of 2061... Truly unconventional forms of warfare...
National Defense March 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	When Will the Military Services Come To Grips With a New Era of Austerity? Even with a smaller funding pie, the U.S. military services should be able to weather the coming budget reductions. But the services are anxious and insecure institutions. They want more, and they insist that their equipment is aging and in need of modernization.
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