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National Defense July 2013 Dan Parsons |
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Strikes Score Victories But Could Backfire in the Long Run There are widening policy concerns about the legality of drone strikes and that U.S. action is setting a dangerous precedent for when and how technologically superior nations can and should wage war. |
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Battlefield Sensors Continue To Make Technological Leaps Hyperspectral and wide-area surveillance sensors are two examples of technologies that military leaders have touted as success stories. |
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Research Arm for Intel Agencies Looking for Nontraditional Sensors The Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity is funding long-term research for several sensors, although not necessarily the kinds that are installed in a ball underneath an unmanned aerial vehicle. |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Fight Begins Over Navy's Armed Drone Program After years of delays, the Navy plans this summer to release a request for proposals for the preliminary design phase for its unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, called UCLASS. The final RFP is set to be issued in early spring 2014. |
National Defense July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy to Consider New Ways to Shuttle Passengers, Supplies to Aircraft Carriers The Navy will decide over the next two years how it will modernize its fleet of 35 cargo planes that move passengers and supplies from bases on land to big-deck aircraft carriers at sea. |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
New Lightweight Infrared Systems Under Development for Army Raytheon officials said its third wave of forward-looking infrared devices, called FLIR, could be in soldiers' hands within a few years. |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Air Force Uses Big Data to Glean Energy Savings Eglin Air Force Base in Florida is harvesting data for a mundane cause: To cut down energy costs. |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Company Pitches Multi-Purpose Battery to Military Customers Executives from a Canadian company named Panacis said its new battery, the SharePack, is a lighter way to not only power devices, but also to harvest energy from anything from a solar blanket to a Humvee battery. |
National Defense July 2013 Mancillas et al. |
Sequestration's Silver Lining: A More Resilient U.S. Army Although sequestration-related cuts will doubtlessly cause near-term pain, overall, it appears likely that they will accelerate a transformation process which would have otherwise proceeded, albeit at a much slower pace. |
Chemistry World June 6, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Big data to sniff out drug marketing fraud The US Food and Drug Administration is offering a contract for a company to collect and analyze data on pharma companies' promotional activities. The aim is to use this big data approach to spot off-label marketing and other forms of marketing fraud. |
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