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National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons |
Retiring Commandant Calls Oceangoing Coast Guard Fleet 'Woefully Inadequate' Adm. Robert Papp, with only months left in his tenure as commandant of the Coast Guard, said his successor must push to update the service's oceangoing cutter fleet. |
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Israeli Firm's Subsidiary Tapped to Build New Border Towers After almost two years of gathering solicitations and testing systems, Customs and Border Protection awarded a contract for a series of new fixed towers in southern Arizona to the U.S. subsidiary of Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. |
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty. |
National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons |
Wearable Computers Closer to Combat Use With the introduction of Google Glass, rumors circulated that the private sector had solved the wearable-computer conundrum the U.S. military has tackled for years. |
National Defense April 2014 Matt Cannon |
Civil Litigation Can Sink Contractors Most people picture high stakes civil litigation taking place in a courtroom where a party has the chance to persuade a judge or jury to validate or reject huge claims for damages. |
National Defense April 2014 David Antanitus |
Sailor-Less Ships Soon Could Be a Reality in U.S. Navy Is the Navy ready to embrace an autonomous surface ship operating with the battle group? Probably not, at least not yet. |
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground. |
National Defense April 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Equip Soldiers With New Sensors for Night Targeting The wars of the past decade exposed weaknesses in Army technology for infantry troops. Close-combat equipment such as night vision goggles and weapon sights are bulky and drain batteries fast. |
National Defense April 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Outside the U.S., Buyers in Hot Pursuit of Night Vision Goggles For night vision goggle manufacturer Exelis, the U.S. military demand collapsed in recent years, and the company is now relying on foreign customers to keep its plant in operation. |
National Defense March 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Company Creates BioWatch 'Lab in a Box' After six years of development, a technology firm says it has created what has been a holy grail for the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program: a laboratory in a box. |
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