[caption id="attachment_8842" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A New Theme At Eurosatory This Year : Operational Medecine (Credit photo: 1er Régiment, Thomas Samson, French Ministry of Defense, ECPAD, Moselle, November 1997)"][/caption] Retaining the same successful mixture of outdoor and indoor stands as in previous sessions, Eurosatory 2010 will include a full program of…
By Dr. Robbin Laird and Dr. Harald Malmgren [caption id="attachment_8747" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="The Greek Bailout (http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk)"][/caption] The Euro crisis associated with the May, 2010 Greek bailout is more fundamental than closing a one-time hemorrhage of debt imbalances. Politics within the Eurozone national governments are putting severe stresses on the cohesiveness…
By Richard Weitz Russian defense companies are counting on additional weapons sales to India to compensate for the precipitous decline in their military exports to China. India is replacing the PRC as the world’s leading arms importer. Until now, Soviet and Russian suppliers have provided about two-thirds of India’s military…
[slidepress gallery='augmenting-the-capability-of-the-amphib-a-key-element-in-the-evolution-of-the-seabase'] In mid-March, SLD talked with Jim Strock, Director, Seabasing Integration Division, Capabilities Development Directorate, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration based at Quantico. Jim Strock is one of the nation’s leading experts on seabasing and an innovative thinker with regard to the evolution of U.S. Naval…
A French Student Prospect By Amélie Spire
[email protected] IP Traffic Internet Going Out From New York (Credit: http://vector1media.com) In today's global world, speaking several foreign languages represent a major asset for the aeronautical and spatial engineer. As international networks expand, companies require a high level of fluency in foreign languages,…
UAV Lessons Learned: Coping With Disruptive Technologies By C.J. Pappas Constantine Pappas is starting a series on the development of the UAV environment in the Department of Defense as a new regular SLD contributor. *** This is the first of a series of anecdotal vignettes of the development of the…
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…
