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National Defense February 2013 Robert Rose |
Corporations Must Cope With More Whistleblowers Whistleblowers in the defense industry have specific protection in 10 U.S.C. 2409. "Contractor" is a broadly defined term. It is a person "awarded a contract with an agency," such as the Defense Department, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard or NASA. |
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons |
More Drones Become Helicopter Sidekicks Troops can't seem to get enough of the aerial reconnaissance gathered by manned and unmanned aircraft, which has proven invaluable to them in recent conflicts. |
National Defense February 2013 |
NDIA Urges Preservation of Government-Industry Dialogue National Defense Industrial Association President Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. emphasized the necessity for government-industry communication and the problems caused by recent complex and restrictive conference participation procedures imposed on Defense Department personnel. |
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles. |
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Budget Cuts Force Army Unmanned Aviation to Make Do With What It Has As defense budgets decline, the Army intends to stand pat with four basic unmanned aerial vehicle models, officials said at a recent conference. |
National Defense February 2013 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Ret. Air Force Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze writes in on the topic of how to fix defense acquisition and offers several suggestions. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Philip E. Ross |
What Does Iron Dome Prove About Antimissile Systems? The early success of Israel's Iron Dome system may not mark a turning point for missile defense |
National Defense February 2013 Jack & Kaprove |
New Anti-Human Trafficking Rules to Come A new presidential executive order released on Sept. 25 enhanced anti-trafficking compliance obligations covering federal contractors. |
National Defense January 2013 Dan Parsons |
Vendors Pour Funding Into Armored Vehicle Development Vehicle manufacturers are gearing up for several parallel armored vehicle programs and, without any guarantee of a contract, are pouring money into working prototypes so that when the time comes, they can offer an "off-the-shelf" design. |
National Defense January 2013 Dan Parsons |
Old Sensors Can Learn New Tricks A new consortium of defense companies is hoping to give pilots situational awareness and threat-response systems that are greater than the sum of their parts. It is one of many efforts to make troops at all levels better able to share information using existing sensors. |
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