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AIR & SPACE SMITHSONIAN

X-47B — The Navy’s test model tailless unmanned combat air system is going to be tested on land and sea.

Bomber of the Future – Speculation on what the next generation Long Range Strike bomber could look like. (Special Spring 2012 Collector’s Edition: Ultimate Aircraft)

Making MUSIC Together — U.S. Army blending manned and unmanned aircraft in new full spectrum Combat Aviation Brigades

SEAPOWER

SOUTHCOM — Budget cuts squeeze counter drug efforts

Submarines — Ohio-class replacement program challenged by sequestration

Two More Decades — Marines’ Light Armored Vehicles staying in service until 2035

Unmanned Aircraft – Marine Corps’ STUAS almost ready

Acceptable Risk– Pentagon budget cuts slow down  Marines’ acquistion of planes, amphibious ships

Outside the Box – DARPA wants to help the Marines build a combat vehicle faster and cheaper

Banana Wars — How the Marine Corps pioneered dive bombing and close air support tactics during the Central American “Banana Wars” of the 1920s and ’30s (part of a Centennial of Marine Corps Aviation package)

Back to the Beach — Marine Corps reemphasizing amphibious assault in its expeditionary toolbox.

Over the Horizon and Under the Sea — Navy exploring new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology.

U.S. COAST GUARD FORUM

On Thin Ice — Coast Guard looks for a new heavy icebreaker

IDGA

Human Geography — Mapping the Earth’s trouble spots and the people who live there

Force Protection — War-driven developments in body, vehicle armor

Roadside Bombs — Widening threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

Human Geography — Military seeks skills, technology to avoid costly cultural misunderstandings

Military Energy — Army Moving on Renewable Energy for Bases

UNMANNED SYSTEMS

2014 Defense Budget – Unmanned aircraft numbers down

Let’s Get Small — Manufacturers Reducing Sensor Size to Fit Smaller Unmanned Vehicles

DIY Robots — Small companies start with big ideas

Keep in Touch — Unmanned Underwater Systems seek better ways to communicate with their operators and each other.

Robots Fare Well – Defense budget cuts skip over unmanned programs

Wanted — U.S. military seeks more unmanned vehicles in Fiscal 2011 budget

Danger ‘bots — Robots that go where it’s too dangerous, too far or too small for humans to tread.

Defense Technology International

Making Do — Army, Marine Corps ground vehicle reset could be suppliers’ boom

Ready for Prime Time — The quest to scan air passengers for dangerous objects without breaching individual privacy rights

Back to the Future — Obama packs administration with ex-Clinton officials

ARES on Defense Blog

Unmanned Systems — Pigeon=holed by success?

Libya — No Sale on Libya No Fly Zone

Libyan Fallout — Greater MANPADs threat

DARPA and Robots — Why Can’t a Robot Be More Like a Man?

Coast Guard — Looking to fill unmanned air patrol gap

Switchblade — AeroVironment’s Lethal Little Unmanned Aircraft is Ready

U.S. Navy and Unmanned Vehicles — Budgetary Hard Times Lower All Boats

Unmanned Vehicles at the Poles — Ice is Only One of the Challenges

Missile Movie — Missile Defense Advocates Release Their Own ‘Inconvenient Truth’

FBI Scouting UAVs — Not Just G-Men, but UAV Men

Shiver Me Aerostats — U.S. Navy Exploring Tethered Blimps to Counter Pirates

Mind the Ming — Think tanks recommend adding space-based layer to U.S. anti-missile defense

AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Army Aviation — Army seeks $5 billion for aircraft in 2014 budget

Shakey Partnership — With the Afghan border situation deteriorating, the Defense Dept. strives to reassure Pakistan—and Congress

Gas Attack — Fuel prices could hurt Defense, NASA, Homeland Security

F-35 Alternative Engine — Obama Pentagon wants to cut second Joint Strike Fighter engine

Defense Secretary Robert Gates — Aviation Week picks Gates as Person of the Year

Strategy Shift — Homeland security outlook for 2008

In the Money — Homeland Security budget in Bush-Congress spending battle

No Coke, Pepsi — Canadian firm develops liquid explosives detector

Who Do You Trust? — TSA’s public-private registered traveller program

Washington Outlook column — About nuclear weapon mismanagement, Gates in the Air Force tanker thicket, candidate Obama on space

Washington Outlook column — Pentagon assessment of Afghanistan/Pakistan, strategic deterrence in space, spacesuit flap

Links to a boatload of articles I did for McGraw-Hill publications like Aviation Week, Airports and Homeland Security and Defense are listed in digest form at Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library website.

HOMELAND SECURITY

Show Us the Money – What programs should Congress be spending homeland security funds on?

Budget 2005 — Where is the homeland security money going?

NEWSLETTERS

Homeland Security & Defense

Reporting from Charleston — Bioterror countermeasures,  Port of Charleston to be testbed, New maritime security rules

After inventory — DHS plans to ramp up IT capabilities

Hand-held Detector — Device can identify liquids in sealed containers

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Airborne Laser – Missile Defense Agency may test small aircraft with ABL

Counter MANPADS — Northrop Grumman says its jammer could go on Civil Reserve Air Fleet

NON-DEFENSE, HOMELAND SECURITY WRITING

Associated Press — Washington

Shareholder Rights — Activist Ralph Whitworth fights to give shareholders a voice

Corporate Gadfly — Rich American Gadfly Evelyn Y. Davis likes to exasperate corporate chieftains

Associated Press — New York

Mob Wars — Reputed John Gotti lieutenant killed by car bomb

Manhunt — Nationwide search for missing son of reputed mob leader