* DARPA’s 2013 Robotic Challenge trials started today. Here’s a live video feed explaining the obstacles the robots have to overcome, from climbing a ladder to cutting a shaping into a wall and more: 12 Years of DoD Contract Spending * The CSIS think...
Reforming Surveillance – Maybe * The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies released a report [PDF] making recommendations to rebalance security concerns with privacy and civil liberties, though they point out that some...
China Crowdsources Arms Smuggling to Procure Mil Tech * Reuters investigates China’s military buildup in its many forms. * From the DC-based Lexington Institute, on China’s belligerence: “Defense experts use a simple formula to represent the severity...
By releasing its budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 in mid-April, the Obama administration was two months over the legal deadline and later than at any time in the modern record. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reiterated the gambit that failed and...
Ammo Concerns * National Defense on the munitions industrial base in the United States: “A new Defense Department initiative seeks to ensure that new munitions development efforts include concurrent pursuit of designs for exportability. This is welcome and will...
