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What’s New

Enhancing and Defending Air Mobility

Posted on October 11, 2011 | by Robbin Laird
10/11/2011
10/11/2011 Carl Smith from Northrop Gumman Corporation explains the technologies which can defend against Manpads and other threats to air mobility.
Posted in Con Ops, Manufacturability, What's New | Tagged DIRCM, Northrop Grumman

The Rafael in The Afghan Operations: Reconnaissance Pods Used Effectively

Posted on October 11, 2011 | by Robbin Laird
10/11/2011
10/11/2011 During the Libyan ops, the French Rafael used its new recce pods with effect.
Posted in Con Ops, What's New | Tagged french air force, Libya, Rafael, Reconnaissance Pods

Shaping a Pacific Strategy III

Posted on October 10, 2011 | by SysAdmin
10/10/2011
10/10/2011 - By shifting from the China focused Pacific globe to the Hawaii centered globe, the nature of the US defense and security approach to Pacific strategy similarly becomes re-focused.
Posted in RESOURCES, What's New

Shaping a Pacific Strategy II

Posted on October 9, 2011 | by SysAdmin
10/09/2011
10/10/2011 - Starting with a different global perspective, one can build a presence and scaleable structure.
Posted in What's New

Trends in DHS Contract Spending

Posted on October 9, 2011 | by SysAdmin
10/09/2011
By Dr. Richard Weitz 10/09/2011 - Using public data, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington DC think tank, analyzed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) federal prime contracts from 2004 to 2010.
Posted in Policy Dynamics, What's New

Shaping a Pacific Strategy I

Posted on October 5, 2011 | by SysAdmin
10/05/2011
10/05/2011 - This is the first part of a re-look at Pacific strategy. Presence defines the baseline; scalability of capability as crucial to effectiveness.
Posted in What's New | Tagged China, Pacific, strategy

Naval Aviation: The Next 100 years

Posted on October 4, 2011 | by Robbin Laird
10/04/2011
10/04/2011 The first day of the next 100 years of Naval Aviation has begun.
Posted in ISSUES & TRENDS, What's New | Tagged BF-2, Ed Timperlake, F-35, Lt. Col. Fred Schenk, Lt. Eugene Ely, Marine Corps, naval aviation history, USS Birmingham, USS Pennsylvania, uss wasp

“The Future is Now”: Clearing the Decks for the “iPad Generation Pilots”

Posted on October 4, 2011 | by SysAdmin
10/04/2011
10/04/2011 The CG of 2nd MAW discusses the merger of three pilot cultures into one through the F-35B.
Posted in Con Ops, What's New
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