An Interview With Mark Rossi, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems "The biggest problem facing DAS is the fact that it is a complete unknown to most people, but as they become more familiar with its value, they begin to realize just how revolutionary this system will be for the warfighter. DAS…
By Steve Nerheim Ike was not our first heavy weather of the 2008 season, but while the storm was still churning east of Cuba, the Greater Galveston Bay Port Coordination Team convened to advise and inform the USCG Sector Commander/Captain of the Port, and to implement/operationalize his guidance and directives.…
AN INTERVIEW WITH REAR ADMIRAL ADMIRAL BRANHAM "Haiti was just another opportunity to demonstrate the Coast Guard’s flexibility and responsiveness, in my view. And one of the reasons we can be that way is because we’re in this theater all the time down here. We live here. We work day-to-day…
AN INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN RICHARD KENIN The Air Station faces a challenging AOR in which there is significant maritime and air traffic which shapes commerce, law enforcement and environmental challenges. Dealing with illegal immigration and drug trafficking is a major concern and because many of these migrants come from outside…
BY VINCE MARTINEZ The successful deployment of both V-22 tilt-rotor variants for the U.S. Marine Corps and the Air Force Special Operations Command to various theaters in the Middle East will force the defense industry, along with military forces worldwide, to accept that powered-lift is now an effective and operational…
BY JOHN WHEELER As we remember the Fallen on Memorial Day, we should be concerned lest adopting older COIN rules, where the ground troops are in equivalence with the insurgents, add needless US and allied casualties. With the tool sets which have evolved over the past decade, we should pursue…
AN INTERVIEW WITH LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DEHNER "One of the new operational capabilities of the F-35B is its ability to sense the IR energy or the heat coming off the environment, a full 360 degrees around the aircraft. It’s as if you are in the middle of a soccer ball : this…
AN INTERVIEW WITH TEST PILOT "SQUIRT" KELLY "We think there will be a building block approach, as we integrate more of the capabilities into the aircraft and the helmet. We saw the same jump in tactics development in the simulator when we first added the helmet capability. We had to…
