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…
Credit: 1st Marine Logistics Group Public Affairs, Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, April 2010 A helicopter support team connecting a mine roller to a helicopter and transporting it in a support operation in Afghanistan. ---------- ***Posted on May 11th, 2010
Jim Strock, Director, Seabasing Integration Division, Capabilities Development Directorate, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration based at Quantico, discusses role of the seabase and the role of USMC Amphibious Ships and the impact of the V-22 and F-35 on the amphibious ships.
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…
The Need To Refill [caption id="attachment_8271" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="U.S. Air Force Master. Sgt Paul Tatar, a C-130 Hercules aircraft aerial spray aircraft maintainers, from the 910th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, refill a C-130 with oil-dispersing chemicals on the runway of the Stennis International Airport, Miss,…
By USMC (Ret) Vince Martinez Vince Martinez is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Officer and pilot. He is the President and Founder of Affinity Fidelis Consulting and Technologies, a defense consulting firm in Northern Virginia. Vince is now a regular contributor to Second Line of Defense and starts with the…
SLD visited U.S. Coast Guard facilities in the New Orleans area as well as attending the keel laying for the new Sentinel Class Patrol Boats at the Bollinger Yards. Unfortunately, recent developments in the Gulf would demonstrate once again the importance of the USCG to the nation. This sector, with…