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National Defense May 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Changes on the Horizon For Special Operations Command as Force Grows No one in the White House or Pentagon is talking about cutting the ranks of special operators. They number about 66,000 personnel now, and the goal to reach 70,000 will not change. |
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons |
Special Operations Boost Demand for Helicopters Special operations forces have a dedicated fleet of tricked-out helicopters at their disposal, but as their workload grows, they are increasingly reliant on conventional aircraft to get their jobs done. |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
Special Ops Trucks: More Punch in Smaller Packages When enemies began blowing up bombs hidden along convoy routes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military responded by beefing up trucks with unprecedented amounts of armor. |
National Defense May 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Regulatory, Technological Hurdles Stand In Way of Domestic Drone Mandate If Congress gets its way, by Sept. 30, 2015, unmanned aerial vehicles will be seamlessly flying in national airspace alongside passenger jets, military aircraft and single-prop general aviation Pipers. |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
Air Force Seeks Impossible-to-Intercept Communications The Air Force has enlisted a group of researchers to create quantum memories based on the interaction between light and matter that would result in a new form of encryption that some experts have called "perfect." |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
Underwater Vehicles Take on Jellyfish Form Biologists and engineers have built an underwater vehicle that looks and swims like a jellyfish in response to the Navy's desire to create a network of underwater sensors that could move like animals in the ocean. |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
Software Shows Undersea Drones Quickest Route Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have developed software that finds the best paths for automated underwater vehicles to travel. |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
Wanted: Driverless Vehicles for Army Security Patrols The Army is conducting market research into technology that would allow installations to send out unmanned vehicles on 24/7 patrols. |
National Defense May 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Recalibrating Strategies For a Declining Defense Market The defense market is shaping up to become a Darwinian world where winning contracts will be a matter of life or death for many companies. |
National Defense May 2012 Stafford & Kaprove |
Mitigating the Risk of Defense Base Act Insurance The Defense Base Act requires many U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to provide workers' compensation insurance to their overseas-based employees working on U.S. military bases and government projects. |
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