October 1957 memorandum related to sputnik.
On October 5, 1957, the headline on the front page of the Baltimore News-Post proclaimed "RUSS 'MOON' CIRCLING EARTH." Beneath it, the newspaper asked readers, "Horror or Progress?" The article that followed, written by International News Service Science writer Edwin Diamond, began: "A new moon circles today in the...

Company Watch - Lockheed Martin.
Mar 17, 2008 Marine One contract runs behind schedule, over cost. The DoD this month confirmed that the cost of the Marine One helicopter has nearly doubled and that production is behind schedule. Lockheed Martin declined to comment on why the cost has increased so dramatically, but...

FASTT scramjet success.
Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have successfully ground-launched and flown a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA. This was claimed to be the first- ever freeflight of a scramjet-powered vehicle using conventional liquid...

FASTT track to hypersonic flight.
Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA in a pre-dawn launch on Saturday 10 December. It was claimed to be the first-ever free flight...

Modern soldier: a sitrep: the development of futuristic networked soldier systems continues in parallel with efforts to field practical/mature equipment, and get it into the hands of infantry soldiers fighting the war on terror.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The US Army cancelled further funding for its Land Warrior programme in February 2007 in favour of expediting the delivery of mature technologies into the hands of troops fighting the war on terror and rolling less mature technologies into the Future Force Warrior programme. In...

Survival of the quickest.
Defensive aids suites are a comparatively recent development created in recognition of the fact that armour cannot guarantee the survivability of a main battle tank let alone the more numerous light and medium fighting vehicles. Military operations in Chechnya, Somalia and in Iraq have shown how easy it is,...

Hand on the trigger: forward operating bases (and troops) are some of the most valuable and definitely the most vulnerable assets available to any commander. Keeping the front-line forces safe, and doing so without putting innocents in danger, requires an innovative mix of planning, equipment and technology.
A wide array of sensors and weapons are available to protect the forward-operating forces, but too often triggering some of these have caused some form of harm to innocents. Having a man in the loop who must make the final decision on unleashing a round or warhead takes the...

National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty: No Need to Wreck the Accord.
The administration of President George W. Bush is moving full speed ahead with a variety of national missile defense (NMD) approaches, and has said that in months--not years--missile defense testing will wreck the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. While this position may reflect a profound desire on the part of...

Bernard Schriever and the scientific vision.
World War I was won by brawn, and World War II by logistics. World War III will be won by brains. General "Hap" Arnold, circa 19451 Although World War II, according to Army Air Forces (AAF) Commanding General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, was won by...

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Praised as a Champion of Missile Defense By MDAA.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) stated his appreciation for outgoing Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's support of missile defense during his years leading the Department of Defense. "Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld brought Missile Defense from a...