Every summer, I have a front-row seat to hell. I live at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, just east of Los Angeles. During this time of year I can walk out of my house and see hills pockmarked by flames, as if they were covered by the campfires of an invading hoard. All […]
File this under things that make America great. Evidently, some big box stores sell impressively sized barrels of a food-like substance called “cheese balls.” No one can figure out what to do with them (eating them is apparently out of the question). A YouTube enthusiast, NightHawkInLight, has an extensive video channel featuring do-it-yourself projects, such as making […]
AMREL salutes those who have fallen in the the line of service and the living who protect us every day. An attack on them is an attack on all of us. It is worth remembering that before the shooting, relations between protesters and the Dallas police were peaceful with both sides going out of their way to praise […]
Wishes you and your family a happy and safe July 4th There are many ways of celebrating our freedom. Bar-B-Qs. Parades. Watching videos of people doing dangerous things with fireworks. Below are three of our favorite dangerous fireworks videos. Needless to say, don’t try this at home. Firework Minigun Don’t try this at home. Really. Roman […]
Once again we stare into the opaque crystal ball that is Washington and try to divine the fate of this year’s Defense appropriation bill. The good news, sort of Out of the 12 appropriation bills facing Congress, Defense is the one that will most likely pass in time for due date. That is the view […]
American Reliance, Inc. (AMREL) and Airbus Defense and Space have partnered to integrate GATOR (Geospatial Appliance Targeted for Operational Response) into a rugged one-box laptop solution called the GATOR Rugged Geospatial Laptop. In the most difficult and demanding areas of the world, this encapsulated geospatial server enables easy access to geospatial data even when the […]
AMREL is always on the lookout for new applications for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), since we are the premier supplier of Operator Control Units for them. Bomb detection, guard duty, and farming are well-known uses for UGVs. To this list, we can add unlocking the secrets of a lost civilization. For over 100 years, archeologists […]
As discussed in Ten ways mobile business solutions succeed and fail, integrating mobility into an enterprise’s communication network can be a tricky affair. Many businesses hand out smartphones to their employees, and expect wonderful benefits to just automatically roll in. A more thought-out strategy usually yields better results. Recently, I heard a case study in which […]
Despite its compact size, the ROCKY DF7A is an extremely flexible platform. On its top surface, you have options for an embedded antenna, as well as two SMA connectors for your choice of external antennas. On the bottom, there are three different locations for your choice of connectors. However, a more radical change was required when a […]
On May 6, 2004, the FBI arrested Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield. A partial print found on a bag of detonators had conclusively linked him to the March 2004 Spanish terrorist bombings. Four separate fingerprint examiners positively identified the latent print as belonging to him. All four examiners were wrong. In fact, three weeks before Mayfield was arrested […]
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