Sunday, May 18, 2008

Friday, May 16, 2008

Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) flying insect robots


The primary center for the micro flying robot work is the University of California at Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory, whose "Areas of Research" include the "Micro-Robotics" & "Micromechanical Flying Insect" projects, headed by Professor Ron Fearing. The Lab's Manager is San Francisco Robotics Society of America member Winthrop Williams.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

The U.S Army Psyop enters the media through to CNN door!!!

Maj. Thomas Collins, U.S. Information Service has confirmed that "psyops" (psychological operations) personnel, soldiers and officers, have worked in the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The lend/lease exercise was part of an Army program called "Training With Industry." According to Collins, the soldiers and officers, "... worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."
When asked if the introduction of military personnel into a civilian news organization was standard operating procedure, one source said, "That question is above my pay grade ... but I hope so. It's what we do."
The CNN military personnel were members of the Airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information.' Critics say that means dissemination of propaganda.

by Fahd
for more info visit:http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17437

Thursday, May 8, 2008

what is veriship??????




VERISHIP is a chip that can be implanted in your body,veriship's idea is to link the chip to the person’s medical records.The VeriChip Personal Identification System is a small radio frequency identification device (RFID) that is implanted into the human body.
* How much memory on this chip? Enough to get my full health record on it? How about my allergies and basic condition?
* How difficult is it to write to the chip? What about its security?
* How common will readers be?
* Who controls what gets written on the chip? Can it be hacked? Conversely, can it be accessed when needed?
* Can the chip be cloned? (Clone me, Doctor Memory!)

Current chips are nothing more than a number that needs to be tied to your personal records in some corp-government database. The next chips may have memory, possibly recording devices, to store your (deviant) thoughts for use against you, as a way to resurrect or clone you if you die or maybe write a final cut on the person's life.
larry dignan talk more about this ship and give his idea about this new chip....
by hani

US Army awards for best invention of Armory


Humvee Crew Extraction D-ring, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, AL. Combat locks on the up-armored Humvee often get so damaged the doors can’t be opened when under fire – or under water. The D-ring provides solid anchor points for the hooks of a tow strap, chain or cable to pull open damaged doors. Or other innovative options like the 10th Mountain Division’s “Rat Claw.” The project was handled by a Fast Assistance in Sciences Team (FAST) that deploys to help Soldiers solve problems that can be resolved within 6 months.


By Fahd
For more info visit:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/us-army-awards-top-10-inventions-of-2006-03378/

Saturday, May 3, 2008

SAIC’s Front-Line BAT-DMS Biometrics Contact


SAIC in San Diego, CA was awarded on Sept. 25, 2007, a delivery order amount of $13.6 million as part of a $64.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for operations and maintenance of the Biometrics Automated Toolset and Detention Management System. See this DID article for updated links and background, covering biometrics technology and the ways in which the BAT system has become an offensive asset for US forces in Iraq.
Work will be performed in Iraq/Afghanistan (80%), and Arlington, VA (20%), and is expected to be complete by Dec. 16, 2008. Bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Aug. 20, 2001, and 2 bids were received by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, AL (DASG60-02-D-0006).

for more details:http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/cat/logistics-support/intelligence-psyops/
by Fahd

A Different Kind of Net-Centric Warfare in Iraq



Defense Industry Daily’s mandate is clear, and summed up well in our motto “daily news for defense procurement managers and contractors.” In most cases, our coverage limits itself to the events and issues around contracts that have already been issued, and/or key issues of doctrine and policy that are related to defense procurement. We also include reports from the field that bring home useful information about equipment performance, and serve as a reminder of what’s really important: usefulness to the people on the front lines.


Sometimes, news from the front lines also highlights important trends and force structure issues that go beyond the performance of any one system. “(Lt. Col. David) Labouchere of Mesopotamia,” which covered that British commander’s successful mobile/Bedouin approach in Iraq, was one. Now Noah Shachtman of WIRED’s award-winning defense blog Danger Room has written another. In the wake of the discussions in defense departments and ministries around the world concerning “network-centric warfare,” events like Israel’s recent Winograd Commission post-mortem of the 2006 war in Lebanon, and the Nov 28/07 security pact involving 6,000 Sunnis in Hawija, Noah’s article offers important food for thought to policy-makers and procurement managers alike. In his words…



“It’s an attempt at explaining why we’ve seen such a drop in violence in Iraq in recent months, and why it took so long to see a shift. My short answer: the U.S. dropped its somewhat techno-centric approach to prosecuting the war—and started focusing on Iraq’s social, political, tribal, and cultural networks instead…. For the story, I scored a rare opportunity to spend time with a U.S. “psychological operations” team, getting into the heads of the people of Fallujah; hung out with an Army colonel who worked his tribal connections to bring stability to one of Iraq’s roughest towns; spent time with the heads of a controversial program to embed anthropologists into combat units; and interviewed General David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq.”
“How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social – Not Electronic” is worthwhile reading as one contemplates the future of net-centric warfare as it is currently sold – and what it might be turning into.

by Fahd