The Army plans to deploy more of the thermal sensors, originally developed to spot targets at night.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.WASHINGTON: You didn’t hear much about them during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but DARPA, small businesses, and universities were the people who most impressed retired Gen. Hoss Cartwright when he was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as he and the services scrambled to find weapons to give American troops a…
By Colin Clark
Rep. Mac Thornberry’s proposed acquisition reform bill is a bold and innovative attempt to solve two major problems with how the Department of Defense plans for and buys major weapons systems. (Thornberry introduces a prototype bill for committee discussion later today. The Editor) First, this bill from the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has…
By Katherine Blakeley