Boeing Maritime Surveillance Aircraft Demonstrator Makes First Flight
The Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet was built to ensure that high-powered executives travel in style. However, the one that …
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Ukraine Response: U.S. Deploys Additional Aircraft to Poland and Baltics
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is deploying more aircraft to Poland and the Baltics in response to the Russian …
U.S. Navy Joins Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
As the efforts intensified this weekend to find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard, …
Distributed Battle Management: DARPA Seeks to Manage Increasingly Complex Contested Airspace
Anyone who has seen the 2005 movie Stealth has seen a vision of a unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) fighting …
Smaller Budgets, Greater Burdens for the VA and DoD
Massive budget cuts and sequestration, from current funding into the foreseeable future, could not have come at a worse time …
The U.S. Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Region: China’s Growing Military Capabilities
Capabilities and Intent
In our previous post we looked at the geostrategic realities – including China’s economic rise – undergirding …
Airware’s Aerial Ranger: Anti-poaching Efforts Go Unmanned
The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen them perform an ever-evolving set of missions. One of those missions, …
VA Research: Traumatic Brain Injury
Since 2001, better body armor and innovations in battlefield medicine have made troops in Iraq and Afghanistan more likely than …
VA Research: Women’s Health
Women have served in every U.S. military conflict since the American Revolution, but it wasn’t until 1923 that Congress directed …
AN-2 Unveiled: Swiftships and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Collaboration Bears Fruit
The collaboration between Swiftships Shipbuilders LLC and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to develop an autonomously navigable military boat …