Rapid Fire 2010-09-28: Defense Manufacturing Innovation

Sep 27, 2010 21:43 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

  • How NYU’s research into re-writing fear-based memories is coming along?

  • Taking a Dip: Two US Navy MH-60 Romeo helicopters take a dip into Lake Tahoe after losing power, but both are able to right themselves. Check out the video.

  • South Korean defense ministry is considering shortening the country’s mandatory military service to 18 months from 24 months by 2014.

  • Research and Markets: Bulgaria’s defense and security industry is expected to be one of the last to recover in Europe.

  • Freescale Semiconductor is incorporating its AlitVec floating-processing technology, which provides advanced signal processing for sonar and radar, into its QorIQ microprocessors.

  • Raytheon unveils its XO 2, a 2nd-generation powered exoskeleton that is lighter than XO 1 and uses 50% less power. It’s unveiled during a demonstration with Paramount Home Entertainment. Whose parent firm distributes films like Iron Man and Transformers. We’re waiting for the movie cameo.

  • Close Encounter?: Based on eye-witness accounts and interviews, a group of former USAF pilots are claiming that UFOs have visited earth and infiltrated US and British nuclear sites. Time to call the UN’s alien contact ambassador?

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