by Editorial Staff | Aug 8, 2014 | Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, India, Iraq, Japan, Materials Innovations, Robots, Russia, Science - Basic Research, USA
* President Obama authorized targeted airstrikes against ISIL insurgents in Iraq, as well as humanitarian assistance to civilians stranded on a mountain. British Prime Minister David Cameron is “extremely concerned” by the situation in the country and...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 7, 2014 | Africa - Other, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, India, Iraq, IT - Cyber-Security, Legal, Policy - Personnel, Raytheon, Scandals & Investigations, Turkey, USA
* The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to award a sole source contract to Raytheon/BBN, SRI, and Leidos for Phases 4 and 5 of its Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program, whose purpose is to detect speech in very noisy environments. Does...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 6, 2014 | Australia & S. Pacific, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Germany, Israel, Legal, Middle East - Other, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, Training & Exercises, USA
* US Defense Acquisition Undersecretary Frank Kendall suggested [Defense News] that Congress create a “reserve spending account” that he could tap when programs need additional support without punishing other programs that perform well. He knows that is...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 5, 2014 | China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Germany, Israel, Japan, Russia, Science - Basic Research, USA
* Japan released its latest annual defense whitepaper, with a wary eye on China’s increasing military spending and improving capabilities. * Germany cancelled a €100M ($135M) deal to build a training camp for Russia. Deutsche Welle | Süddeutsche Zeitung [in...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 4, 2014 | Africa - Other, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, India, Iraq, Israel, Logistics Innovations, Materials Innovations, Turkey
* New technologies, including the Hermes 900 UAV, are being put to the test [Haaretz] by the Israel Defense Forces in their campaign against Hamas. But their efficiency may be backfiring as public opinion, rightly or wrongly, draws moral conclusions from very lopsided...
