Entries by William Finn

Swarm of Microbots (video)

[layerslider id=”30″] Creepy robot video of the month Swarm Of Insect-Inspired Microbots Is Unsettlingly Clever Fascinating video illustrates capabilities of a hive minded unmanned system, whose mobility is generated by magnetism.  Also, it gave us the creeps.

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Night Vision & Computers: The Basics

Night Vision Imaging System(NVIS) enables US military forces to enhance situational awareness, increase mission flexibility, and maintain battlefield dominance.  Also, night-vision goggles (NVG) are cool.  If you don’t believe me, buy one, show it to your friends, and see how quickly they try to grab it out of your hands. No matter how cool NVG […]

Special Operations Forces Industry Conference – SOFIC 2014

May 20-22 2014 Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL Sponsor: NDIA This year’s SOFIC 2014 conference theme, “Strengthening the Global SOF Network,”will provide a forum for military, government,academia, and industry stakeholders to network and discuss current and future challenges and how to best support our Special Operations Forces (SOF) around the globe. USSOCOM Commander, Admiral WilliamH. McRaven, USN,and […]

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JIEDDO & Preserving Counter-IED Knowledge

The article below originally appeared in the Counter-IED Report. Concerns are being expressed that all the counter-IED knowledge that’s been learned during the protracted wars against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan will be lost if the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) is slashed or abolished under the proposed plan to scale back the […]

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The Defense Budget is a mess and I feel fine

“I think that if we tried harder, we couldn’t have made this budget more complicated….Abbott and Costello couldn’t have done it better.”  Christine Fox, Acting Deputy Defense Secretary (Defense News) Even judging by the Department of Defense’s (DoD) long legacy of confusing budgets, the most recent version is setting new standards for head scratching.