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Test Facility Aims To Improve Land Mine Detection Equipment
Atlanta GA: Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines. The unique automated system measures the response of individual electromagnetic induction sensors or arrays of sensors against land mines buried at many possible angles. Electromagnetic induction sensors work by sending [...]
US confident Pakistan nukes secure: CIA chief
LOS ANGELES: CIA director Leon Panetta said Monday US intelligence officials did not know the exact whereabouts of all Pakistan’s nuclear weapons but believed they were safe from the Taliban. Speaking in Los Angeles, the Central Intelligence Agency chief said Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal was “pretty secure” amid concerns that the weapons could possibly fall into [...]
Defense Budget Reflects Lessons Learned, Future Threats, Gates Says
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said his focal points in formulating fiscal 2010 defense budget recommendations were military troops and families, balancing between current and future missions and reforming the Pentagon’s buying process. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed the details of President Barack Obama’s proposed [...]
Electronic Warfare Center to Enhance Warfighter Effectiveness
CRANE, Ind.: Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM) recently recognized Naval Electronic Warfare Technology Integration Center (NEWTIC) as part of its Electronic Warfare (EW) Integration Improvement Program (EWIIP) support structure. The U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) message establishing the EW Fleet Collaborative Team (EW FCT), a special group created by the Navy operational community to work [...]
Russia views US, NATO as top security threats
Moscow: Russia views the United States and NATO as major threats to global security and potentially to its own military, according to a sweeping new security document unveiled by the Kremlin on Wednesday. The document, outlining Russia’s national security strategy through 2020, reflected continuing fears of old Cold War foes but also said Moscow would [...]
New White Paper On Military And Civilian Port Security
Port Coquitlam, Canada: Kongsberg Mesotech is pleased to release a white paper outlining the most recent technological advances in sonar technologies and how these can protect military and civilian ports and visiting ships from attack by enemy divers. The white paper is entitled “New Advances in Sonar Diver Detection Systems: The Hidden Threat Facing Military [...]
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Completes Flight Testing
BETHPAGE, N.Y.: In the blue skies over St. Augustine, Fla., Northrop Grumman’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye System Development and Demonstration program aircraft recently reached its 1,000th hour of flight testing. The aircraft, currently in flight testing at Northrop Grumman’s East Coast Manufacturing and Flight Test Center, continues to successfully meet, or exceed, all major program and [...]
Military Needs New Strategy for Present, Future Threats
VIRGINIA BEACH: The U.S. military requires a new, grand strategy to address today’s complex security threats as well as tomorrow’s challenges, a senior U.S. military officer said here today. “We have a real need for a grand strategy; any analysis shows that we have that need,” Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, commander of U.S. [...]
General calls for new thinking on cyberspace
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass: The Air Force’s top cyber official told a mostly industry-based audience here May 8 that the cyber arena is filled with new business opportunities, and some very hard challenges. “In an Air Force that is a lot of times focused on kinetic activity — read that as F-16 (Fighting Falcons) [...]
