Featured Articles

PRESIDENT'S PERSPECTIVE

• Defense Industrial Base: Plans Needed to Ensure Soft Landing

DEFENSE WATCH

• Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy

WASHINGTON PULSE

• Joint Strike Fighter Bracing for Marketing Wars
• ‘IED Defeat Task Force’ Also in the Private Sector
• Influx of Scientists and Engineers at the Pentagon
• Wanted: Army Contracting Officers

SECURITY BEAT

• Border Tunnel Problem Worsening as Fences Go Up
• Want to Know How to Build a Virtual Fence? Ask Border Patrol
• TSA Setting Up Cargo Screening System
• Wanted: One Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Must be Able to Take Off From Ships

INSIDE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Water, Climate Change: Recipe for Trouble?

IN FOCUS

• New Ships are Breaking the Bank So the Navy is Fixing its Old Ones
• Army in a Rush to Produce New Cannon

INDUSTRY STUDY

• Uncertainty About Budgets, Workforce Shape Future of U.S. Weapons Industry

ENERGY CRUNCH

• Market for Synthetic Aviation Fuels Off to a Shaky Start

ROBOTS AT WAR

• Ground Robots' Place in the Military is at Risk, Experts Warn
• Armed Robots Sidelined in Iraqi Fight
• Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots

BATTLEFIELD SENSORS

• To Succeed, Soldiers 'Need to See the Environment'
• Army Starts Over with Aerial Common Sensor
• Urban Surveillance Sill Falling Short, Say Army Commanders
• Worries About Mid-Air Collisions Keep Civilian Drones Grounded

COVER STORY

• In Today's Wars, Air Strikes Under Fire
• Technology Upgrades Give Edge to Ground-Attack Pilots
• Exchange Program Helps Services Acquire Laser Missiles for Free
• Bombers Will Fly Closer to the Ground in Upcoming Deployment

TECH TALK

• Smoke, Snow, Gloom of Night Not a Problem
• U.S. Company Helps China Monitor Oil Spill
• Polymer Magazine Developed for Assault Rifle
• Lightweight Fabric Blocks Radiation
• Tracking Devices Offer Path to Safety for Lost Firefighters
• Mapping Technology Helps Cope With Emergencies
• Game Lets GI’s Make Friends, Not War

ETHICS CORNER

• Contractors’ Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny