* The Air Force is trying to get ahead of cost issues by announcing an effort to introduce reforms to speed up procurement as well as to allow RFP responders to suggest alternative requirements where cost savings could be recognized. U.S. * Predictably, commentators...
Back in 2008, the Navy signaled its desire to its desire to incorporate the "far term sea-based terminal defense" capacity of the SM-6 into its Aegis system, with one hurdle being some ships' radars being capable of handling the sensor data requirements. They then...
* Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's likely last procurement emphasis is his call for a replacement of current strategic bomber capacity, which currently consists of 159 airframes between the Air Force's B-52s, B-Lancers and B-2s. U.S. * Contractors such as Lockheed...
* Repurposed military hardware is already coming under significant negative scrutiny after civil rights issues have become a dominant domestic topic, and midwestern police departments making what appears to be unneeded shows of force. Topping that off are reports that...
ADS mounted on Hummer(click to view full) Airmen of the 820th Security Forces Group are busy these days. Not only are they conducting the user trial and training for the GSAT ShotSpotter + ScanEagle anti-sniper system, they're also the first unit selected to conduct...
* The state-by-state politics of basing are expected to flare up, not just with the f-35 basing displacement decisions, but also with the seemingly vulnerable decision by the military to do away with National Guard Blackhawk assets. Because National Guard bases are...
Silent Hawk Prototype(click to view full) Special Forces has had an abiding interest in silenced motorcycles as stealthy and quick insertion/extraction vehicles - and, not just from having viewed Chuck Norris's 1986 cheesy Delta Force movie, where his trusty...
* The Department of Defense is set to request 20 percent less in "war funding" for the coming fiscal year, a reduction of about $13 billion. The fact that this request has not declined somewhat proportionally to the size of the reduced mission may indicate that the...
Networking the Navy(click to view full) The US Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) program is designed to streamline and update shipboard networks to improve interoperability across the fleet. It will replace 5 shipboard legacy network...