* US to help South Korea plug gaps in naval defense. * UK coalition government announces new defense ministers. * Project H-XBR: Eurocopter, Brazil open Brazilian center of excellence, hold first EC725 test flight. * DoD's Operationally Responsive Space Office...
M4 SOPMOD(click to view full) L-3 Communications subsidiary EOTech, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI received a $25 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract, to provide their optical sighting system for U.S. Special Operations...
Honor & Reflect(click to view cartoon) Monday, May 31st is Memorial Day in the USA. DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service; we will not be publishing. Readers are urged to peruse the US Department of Defense's Memorial Day...
* South Korean Navy conducts anti-submarine warfare drills off west coast as tensions run high over North Korea's sinking of ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772), a Pohang-class patrol combat corvette. South Korean ambassador to the US ponders the aftermath. [PDF] * University of...
Sen. Tom Coburn(click to view full) Guest article by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK This memorandum describes what I believe are serious problems in our defense budget and some ideas to address them. I appreciate that some of these thoughts are controversial - even to the...
* US Congressional Budget Office's Analysis of the Navy's FY 2011 Shipbuilding Plan: Not. Affordable. * The German defense minister aims to cut EUR 1 billion per year in defense spending, including closing small military facilities. Germany currently spends less than...
* Russian-built plants in Venezuela's Aragua state will produce Kalashnikov AK-103 assault rifles and over 50 million 7.62-mm rounds for the rifle per year. * In 2011 Russia expects to unveil new model of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the AK-200, based on the AK-74M...
(click to view full) Modern navies run on computers. Unfortunately, computers don't last nearly as long as ships, something that's both a hardware and a software problem. The computer console over there might be up to operating key systems on a billion-dollar warship,...
Cloud Computing Diagram(click to view full) The term "cloud computing" has been floating around the commercial IT sector for a number of years. It describes how large-scale computer infrastructure can tap the power of the Internet to perform complex tasks. Cloud...