by Joe Katzman | Jun 29, 2011 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Design Innovations, Field Innovations, Other Corporation, Signals Radio & Wireless, Soldier's Gear, Transformation, USA
Not ideal. At present, many soldiers don’t have communications radios because the hardware is too expensive. Buying 2-way radios from Radio Shack before deployments solved that problem for some soldiers, but insecure communications created others. On the high...
by [email protected] | Jun 29, 2011 | Africa - Other, Alliances, Australia & S. Pacific, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, European Union (EU), India, Leadership & People, Mergers & Acquisitions, Missiles - Ballistic, Other Corporation, Other Weapons, Specialty Aircraft, Submarines, Think Tanks, USA
* The Dutch Defense Minister, Hans Hillen, replicates outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and uses a Security and Defence Agenda event to call for a greater pooling of resources among NATO’s European partners. * President Barack Obama tells a press...
by [email protected] | Jun 29, 2011 | Alliances, Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Israel, Leadership & People, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Projections & Assessments, Think Tanks, UAVs, USA
* The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passes a measure that authorizes President Obama to conduct a ‘limited’ military engagement in Libya. Note that the committee can’t actually authorize any such thing, but it can set up a full Senate vote. * In...
