HDS-100G/GN Handheld Search and Identification Feature Highlights Gamma and Neutron independent channels Very high sensitivity and fast response Automated spectra acquisition on alert and identification (NMD algorithm) Clear discrimination of risk category No internal stabilization required [caption id="attachment_15716" align="alignleft" width="141" caption=" "][/caption] HDS-100G/GN are standard devices designed to search for…
Lieutenant General Jean-Patrick Gaviard retired mid 2006. He has been, since January 2007, a consultant with French think tanks and since November 2008 a “senior concept developer” with Nato/Sact, Norfolk (USA). From 2005 to 2006, he was advisor to the French defence Minister. He worked at this time particularly on…
Jack Pappas was the Officer in Charge of the Navy’s first deployed DASH Unmanned Vehicle detachment in the Navy from 1962 to 1965 aboard USS James E. Kyes (DD-787). Since then, he has been an Assistant Branch Head at the Navy Research Laboratory, worked in the intelligence community, was in…
Director, Technology Assessment, International Technology Security (OSD), Jan 03 09: Responsible for identifying and protecting from espionage US world leading military technology. I am the DOD representative to the National Counterintelligence Executive Committee NCIX (DNI) and principal liaison to FBI in their Government wide “Critical National Asset” project. Helped established…
Alain Dupas Alain Dupas is an international expert in space technologies, industries and policies as well as in defense and information technology strategies. Mr. Dupas trained as a physicist and in 1977 he was awarded a Doctorat d'Etat from Université Paris-XI/Orsay. He is one of the founders of post-graduate multidisciplinary…
Dr. Harald Malmgren is a recognized expert on world trade and investment flows. At Yale University Malmgren was Scholar of the House and research assistant to Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling, graduating BA summa cum laude in 1957. At Oxford University, he studied under Nobel Laureate Sir John Hicks, and wrote several…
IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE This article follows one published in the September-October 2008 Issue of Military Logistics International and entitled “In the Eye of the Hurricane: French Army Support on the Move” [See pages 29 to 34]. The latter described the broad range of reforms under way within the…
In June 2009, ECATS celebrated its 50,000 flying hours at Le Bourget and has been pioneering a new approach in outsourcing training services’ support, which is now being duplicated and expanded accross France. This report focuses on such a “success story” by attempting to provide an overlook of the lessons learned ever…