by Joe Katzman | Oct 29, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Elbit Systems, IAI, Interoperability, Israel, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Rumours, Textron, UAVs
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...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 29, 2013 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Brazil, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Germany, Industry & Trends, Israel, Satellites & Sensors, USA
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,...
by Fred Donovan | Oct 28, 2013 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Modifications, Logistics, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, USA
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,...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 28, 2013 | Asia - Other, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Forces - Naval, France, Fuel & Power, Germany, Heavy Bombers, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, IT - Cyber-Security, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Official Reports, Pre-RFP, Science - Basic Research, UAVs, USA
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...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 27, 2013 | Events, Issues - Political, IT - General, Policy - Personnel, Scandals & Investigations, USA
Former National Security Council (NSC) non-proliferation staffer and potential Pentagon AT&L advisor Jofi Joseph isn’t the first person to be undone by social media, and he won’t be the last. The inconvenient truth is that social media security...
