Rapid Fire: 2010-04-14
Apr 13, 2010 20:47 EDTRelated Stories: Americas - USA, Bases & Infrastructure, Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, IT - Software & Integration, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Materials Innovations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East - Israel, Missiles - Anti-Armor, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Robots, Science - Basic Research, Sensors & Guidance, Small Business, Specialty Aircraft, Surface Ships - Combat, T&C - RAND Corp., Textron, UAVs, University-related
- RAND Corp. adds to lessons learned from the 2006 war in Lebanon: “Military Capabilities for Hybrid War; Insights from the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon and Gaza” [PDF]
- Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry may have found a way to improve the quality of graphene films, paving the way for better semiconductors.
- Lockheed Martin’s team submits its Littoral Combat Ship bid to the US Navy.
- Give me shelter: Kratos to buy US military shelter maker Gichner for $133 million. Kratos release | Dow Jones | Associated Press
- Just swipe your jet through the scanner... new KC-135 ARAI/RFID aerial refueling system aims to solve a persistent efficiency problem.
- European TACO (Threedimensional Adaptive Camera with Object detection and foveation) consortium working to improve 3D robotic observation.
- Former Bell engineers at AVX Aircraft prepare to bid for the US Army’s ARH with a compound helicopter concept.
- Lockheed Martin touts successful live warhead test for its new AGM-114R Hellfire II with multi-mode warhead.
- Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin to replace Gen. Ray Odierno as senior US general in Iraq, the Associated Press says quoting anonymous officials.
- US State Department official defends legal basis for use of weaponized UAVs. Koh speech | Washington Post
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