NSA vs. NDAA * Intelligence oversight is likely to be one of the points of contention as the Senate attempts to finalize its FY14 defense authorization bill. Revenue Down, Profit Up, Cost Pinching * Harris Corporation reported Q1 FY14 sales down 5.5% to $1.19B. Among...
ADF RQ-7B Shadow(click to view full) In December 2006, Australia bought a new tactical UAV to go with the Israeli Skylark mini-UAV. Australian Minister of Defence Senator Hill said the Government had agreed to the A$ 145 million (USD $109 million) UAV project to...
Afghanistan Drawdown Update * Winter slows down combat in Afghanistan, and ISAF Commander General Dunford sounds rather optimistic about how the 2013 fighting season unfolded, but he recognizes that “[m]uch work remains to be done in developing the institutions,...
Private Vehicle Storage(click to view larger) When a military family is moved abroad, what happens to their cars? That just one of the private vehicle dilemmas confronting the US military on a regular basis, as approximately 650,000 service members, family members,...
NSA Euro Saga * According to El Mundo [in Spanish], the NSA proceeded in Spain to the same sort of spying denounced by France and Germany last week. * Meanwhile the Süddeutsche Zeitung claims [in German] that not only the French government knew of at least some of the...
