Military and Defence We live in interesting times. And it's unfortunate but the military play an important part in it. Military and defense operations have been responsible for many innovations however that we take for granted in our lives. Indeed the success of our military almost relies upon their being ahead of the game which drives them to constantly innovate.
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Constellation was designed to implement a new civil space policy, articulated by the president in the aftermath of the Columbia accident, and modified, extended, and enhanced by both Republican and Democratic Congresses in the NASA Authorization Acts of 2005 and 2008. |
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Friday 9 January, 2009 12:03 PM |
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In pictures it looks like a monster, a giant science fiction beast walking down the hills to the sea after reducing a village to fire and ash. Its tentacles support a giant octopus-like head, and your id supplies the roar and the terror.
Those tentacles are smoke trails, the remains of chunks of aluminum perchlorate raining down on the Earth. They fall from a ugly orange-yellow cloud of nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine. Someday man may design environmentally friendly rockets, rising to orbit on trails of butterflies and fairydust, but for now, we use some pretty nasty substances. |
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Wednesday 17 December, 2008 01:33 AM |
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Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy have received a Top 5 Department of Defense Program Award for their collaborative effort to integrate the Link 16 tactical data link system into the Navy's new MH-60R and MH-60S multimission helicopters.
Representatives of Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, NY, and the Naval Air Systems Command accepted the award during the recent National Defense Industrial Association's (NDIA) Systems Engineering conference in San Diego, CA. Given annually by the Department of Defense and the NDIA, the Top 5 DoD Program awards recognize up to five defense programs that have demonstrated excellence in systems engineering. |
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Thursday 11 December, 2008 12:05 PM |
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Dassault Aviation and INCAT's parent company, Tata Technologies, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO), services. Under the terms of the MoU, INCAT will provide Dassault Aviation with engineering services in a number of critical domains in support of the Indian Air Force's 126 fighter multi-role medium range combat aircraft (MMRCA) programme. |
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Wednesday 10 December, 2008 08:44 PM |
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The GMD system test began at 3:04 p.m. Eastern time when a long-range ballistic missile target lifted off from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. Military operators launched an interceptor from Vandenberg Air Force Base to intercept this threat-representative target.
As the interceptor flew toward the target, it received target data updates from the GMD fire control system, which collected and combined data from four different sensors, the most ever for an intercept test. The sensors were the Aegis Long Range Surveillance and Track system in the Pacific; the AN/TPY-2 radar temporarily located in Juneau, Alaska; the Upgraded Early Warning Radar at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.; and the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) in the Pacific. After flying into space, the interceptor released its exoatmospheric kill vehicle, which tracked, intercepted and destroyed the target warhead. This end-to-end test of the GMD system was the most realistic and comprehensive to date. |
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Monday 8 December, 2008 02:18 AM |
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Northrop Grumman Corp . has been tapped by the U.S. Navy to provide the remainder of $104.5 million in support services for the LPD 17 class of amphibious warships being built at its Pascagoula and New Orleans area shipyards.
The Navy on Thursday awarded the final, $16.8 million contract modification to Northrop. The work includes program management, engineering, design, planning and material procurement to support the delivered ships: the USS San Antonio (LPD 17), USS New Orleans (LPD 18), USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) and USS Green Bay (LPD 20). |
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Sunday 7 December, 2008 06:15 PM |
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In a major setback for satellite-making operations in Southern California, a $1.1-billion contract was awarded Tuesday to Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp . to build a new generation of weather satellites.
Lockheed beat out Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. to design and build two satellites that will be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor and better predict where hurricanes and tornadoes could strike.
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Thursday 4 December, 2008 03:33 AM |
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In February 2008, the Navy awarded BIW the contract to build the first Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG 1000), which is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in 2013. DDG 1000 represents the Navy's next generation of multi-mission surface combatants which will provide a broad range of capabilities that are vital both to supporting the global war on terror and to fighting and winning major combat operations. |
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Wednesday 3 December, 2008 08:31 PM |
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The U.S. space program finds itself at a crossroads in many ways: the future of the Vision for Space Exploration, the balance of Earth and space science, International Space Station utilization, and the human space flight “gap”—all are to be decided, and soon. The question of what we may accomplish in space for decades to come will depend in large measure on the choices made during the coming months.
I believe that America wants a space program that accomplishes great things; one that inspires humanity at home and internationally—especially young people, hopeful of a better future. However, to satisfy this aspiration it is crucial that the US space program solve a singularly tough management challenge: getting control of cost overruns. |
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Tuesday 2 December, 2008 04:54 PM |
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Just over 100 years ago, most people were perfectly happy getting around on trams; along came the Wright brothers, and suddenly everyone was looking up. Planes were used for military purposes within a decade; the first airmail service was inaugurated in 1918; and the first commercial passengers flew in the Twenties, attended by the first air stewards. |
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Monday 1 December, 2008 04:43 PM |
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This case study describes Thales UK's state-of-the-art non-hull-penetrating optronic mast for the Royal Navy's new Astute-class submarines, which provides greater flexibility in boat design and improved surface visibility while reducing the probability of detection, writes Eur Ing Paul Parkinson.
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Wednesday 26 November, 2008 08:12 PM |
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The Altair Project Office is looking to build on the knowledge gained through the Broad Area Announcement (BAA) Lunar Lander Study Contracts. The goal of the BAA Lunar Lander Study Contracts was to obtain industry input on the government’s study philosophy, establish a study team capable of working together toward a common government led design, and develop alternative design concepts from a single set of requirements. |
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Wednesday 26 November, 2008 12:10 PM |
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There is no question that NASA sits “at a crossroad,” noted the Government Accountability Office in a report released today by the federal watchdog group. The space agency is trying to retire the space shuttle, finish the International Space Station and build a new manned spacecraft – all on a budget of about $17 billion.
So its next leader –- that is, if President-elect Barack Obama decides to oust NASA Administrator Michael Griffin –- must be able to answer several key questions about NASA’s future. |
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Tuesday 25 November, 2008 04:21 PM |
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AS Britain remembers those who gave their lives in war, one of the greatest symbols of our nation’s military heritage is again taking to the skies over Andover.
Over the past four years a rare Supermarine Spitfire has been carefully restored by Thruxton firm Classic Aero Engineering, and the iconic warplane has now begun flight testing to become one of just 45 airworthy examples world-wide.
The plane was first built in 1944 and sold to the South African Air Force in 1948.
Its rusting shell was discovered in 1970 in a scrap yard in Cape Town.
Since then it has changed hands several times until Classic Aero Engineering were contracted to carry out a proper restoration by the owner Paul Portelli, who recently died. |
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Monday 10 November, 2008 09:01 AM |
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You could be designing the aeronautical systems for an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, testing submarine sonar, developing next-generation solar power batteries or working on anti-gravity suits for jet pilots.
Defence engineering spans a multitude of specialisms, from aeronautical and mechanical through to electrical and systems engineering. In a field that covers military as well as civil technology, graduates often work at the cutting edge.
The field is expanding despite the current gloom in the jobs market. QinetiQ, a defence technology and security group with subsidiaries in America and Australia, plans to take on 170 graduates next year. Frazer Nash Consultancy, a systems and engineering technology business that is part of the Babcock Group , is taking on 40 to 50 graduates — a significant intake in relation to its 400-strong workforce.
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Thursday 30 October, 2008 10:38 AM |
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Just when you thought the Pentagon’s Dr. Strangeloves couldn’t design anything more devilish than they have already, new plans on the drawing board may help make the science of repression an ever-more lucrative market for capitalist grifters in the defense and security industries.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon geek-squad that designs insidious ways to kill people, has announced a new project, Harnessing Infrastructure for Building Reconnaissance (HIBR).
The Broad Agency Announcement (BAA09-08) published October 10, is seeking industry proposals for a suite of high-tech tools that will provide “warfighters” and “peacekeepers” with the uncanny ability to peer inside your apartment building, in what the agency claims would be an unprecedented opportunity to map rooms, stairwells and people in real-time–the better to “pacify” them. |
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Tuesday 28 October, 2008 01:33 PM |
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India began its first unmanned mission to the moon today, joining China in leading a new generation of lunar exploration.
A rocket blasted off on schedule from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 6:22 a.m. local time carrying the Chandrayaan I, or ``Moon Craft,'' for its two-year orbit, the Indian Space Research Organization said. The $78.9 million mission to map the moon's terrain is a first step toward landing an unmanned rover there by 2012.
``It sends a very strong message to the whole world that Indian technology has come of age,'' Debasish Ghose, a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, said by telephone from the southern city of Bangalore. |
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Thursday 23 October, 2008 02:14 AM |
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While some people like to think that Washington, DC is the center of the universe, any aerospace engineer knows that it's more fun, more immediately rewarding, to be where the action is, to be part of a great team where great things are being built, contributing to a great cause that you can see in front of you. Yes, Washington has a crucial role to play in the management of any Federal agency, certainly including NASA, but it is not where the action is , especially when it comes to building, or in this case rebuilding, the capability for our nation to propel Americans beyond low Earth orbit, back out to the New Frontier of which President John Kennedy spoke. |
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Wednesday 22 October, 2008 01:11 PM |
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Lynchburg, Va.-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. is expected to receive more than $960 million in U.S. Department of Defense contracts, and BWXT (Babcock-Wilcox Technologies) at Mount Vernon, Ind., in Posey County, is expected to share the wealth.
The Tri-State facility designs and manufactures large, heavy components and vessels for the nuclear industry. |
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Tuesday 21 October, 2008 03:18 PM |
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In May 2006, “US Chemical Demilitarization: Expansion and Update” explained the underlying structure of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency’s programs to safely store and dispose of chemical weapons. The CMA is responsible for a number of locations, each of which has its own prime contractor. Prime contractors hold the design, build, operation and closure portions of the contract, while subcontractors to the prime contractors vary by site. “Nerve Gas Stockpile Destruction at NECD in Newport, IN” shone a spotlight on one site’s efforts and contracts.
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Tuesday 21 October, 2008 09:55 AM |
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Rheinmetall Defence , one of Europe's largest suppliers of land forces technology, recently moved the headquarters of its Weapon and Munitions division and plans to continue its global reach.
The new headquarters moved from Ratingen in western Germany to Unterlüss in northwestern Germany. The division was formerly associated with Rheinmetall's traditional products - large- and medium-caliber artillery and ammunition - but has been reshaped to take on additional work: the development and production of advanced protection systems and pyrotechnics. |
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Tuesday 14 October, 2008 02:26 AM |
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