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Parameters November 2004 Augustus W. Fountain Iii |
Transforming Defense Basic Research Strategy The US armed forces currently enjoy an unprecedented level of technological superiority across the full spectrum of military threats.  |
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Defense Companies Make Calculated Bets On New Technologies Defense sector company representatives say they do not rely solely on government contracts from service laboratories or other agencies to lead their research and development efforts.  |
National Defense February 2014 Dan Parsons |
Government Scientists Fight for Funding Government scientists want to preserve the surge of cash military laboratories have used to help troops fight the wars of the last decade in hopes that ongoing experimentation will help the military prepare for conflicts to come.  |
National Defense August 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Defense Must Sustain Investment in Basic Research One of the mainstay sources of strength of the U.S. military is its ability to continually generate new technologies, both for current and future battlefields.  |
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts.  |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
While More Research is Directed to Irregular Combat, War Spending Could Deter Advances in Military Weapons Irregular insurgents have not only have forced military commanders to rethink their strategies and tactics, but they also have set off a transformation in how defense researchers and scientists think about developing new technology.  |
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Cast Wary Eye On Atomic-Level Computing Experts point out that quantum computers could execute calculations several millions of times faster than conventional systems, but that the technology still is years away from becoming truly functional.  |
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Military R&D could see decline in coming years Faced with a growing need to replenish war-ravaged equipment, Defense Department research and development spending is expected to level off and, then, gradually decrease through the balance of this decade.  |
National Defense March 2015 Sandra Erwin |
Defense Department Takes Steps to Energize Cutting-Edge Research The Defense Department is reorganizing its technology shop as it tries to light a fire under its science programs.  |
National Defense May 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Future Pentagon Investments To Reshape Defense Industry Despite being heavily committed in the Middle East, Defense Department officials argue that long-range investment decisions must begin now if the military is to have crucial capabilities 20 years down the road.  |
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Adrian Slywotzky |
Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? Here's how basic research and strong leadership can repair the broken U.S. business model.  |
National Defense November 2010 Eric Beidel |
At Top Universities, Concern About Pentagon's Innovation Strategy Scientists at universities that conduct research paid for by the Defense Department worry about the United States confronting an innovation gap in the defense and national security arenas.  |
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Wars Giving Boost To Cutting Edge Technologies If history is any indication, some of the military funded innovations will not only live, but make a positive impact on society as a whole and drive the U.S. economy throughout the coming decades.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 |
Government Research Spending to Slow in 2007, While Industry Takes up the Slack Total funding for military research and development should increase in 2007. Driving the overall increase is defense industry funding and industrial performance, not federal support.  |
National Defense December 2010 Tom Captain |
Defense Affordability: Can We Buy Only What We Need? Military acquisition budgets globally are flattening out and declining. Large scale multi-billion dollar programs are running over budget and being delayed.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette |
What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.  |
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
On Troops' Wish-List: Weapons That Avert Civilian Casualties A recent Pentagon-funded study reveals that one of the biggest difficulties that U.S. troops face in current conflicts is that they lack nonlethal alternative weapons that they can use when they need to take action without harming civilians.  |
National Defense March 2012 Dan Ward |
Military Innovation in the Age of Austerity: Why I Love Budget Cuts What will the projected military budget cuts do to the defense technology environment? Despite the widespread chorus of concern from industry and government alike, the cuts may actually do everyone -- particularly American war fighters -- a lot of good.  |
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Looming Budget Cutbacks Underpin Defense Strategy How long the fighting in Iraq will last is anyone's guess. It seems quite certain, however, that mounting war costs will be wreaking financial havoc on many of the military's prized weapon systems. Are decision makers at the Pentagon guilty of shortsightedness?  |
National Defense June 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Double Down on Military Basic Research Cutting basic and applied research accounts at government-funded labs that create such technologies is shortsighted. If anything, the budget request should be doubling down.  |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
TRN's Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004 Biotechnology... Communications... Computer chips... Computer interfaces... Engineering... etc.  |
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al. |
10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications.  |
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF.  |
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.  |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
Air Force Seeks Impossible-to-Intercept Communications The Air Force has enlisted a group of researchers to create quantum memories based on the interaction between light and matter that would result in a new form of encryption that some experts have called "perfect."  |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. Fails To Capture Available Technologies In the race to secure the latest and greatest technologies from the private sector and university labs, the Pentagon often comes up short.  |
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.  |
Scientific American March 13, 2006 Daniel G. Dupont |
Software Insecurity A good deal of code for some of the military's most sophisticated weapons -- fighter aircraft and missile defense systems, for example -- is written in other countries, creating an obvious risk to national security.  |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2003 Jennifer Oullette |
Quantum dots for sale Artificial atoms illluminate biotechnology and other fields  |
National Defense October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Fears of the Incredibly Shrinking Defense Budget May Be Overblown A defense industry apocalypse is not here yet: Everyone in Washington is always in favor of savings in the abstract but when they see the particulars, they tend to get cold feet.  |