Coming on the heels of its successful introduction of its Military Utility Tool (“MUT”) family of weapons and EOD utility tools, Leatherman Tool Group has continued close coordination with military …
When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses to the military were serious, both in the accoutrements of …
With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), investigators at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new “robotic hand” that is both dexterous enough to mimic the capabilities …
The Pentagon’s FY 2013 budget proposal contains provisions that will hit both active-duty and retired personnel in their wallets – for years to come.
When it was finally passed on …
For all the fiery debates it launched in 2011, the U.S. military’s fiscal year 2012 budget achieved reality in anticlimactic form: part of the 1,200-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, finalized in …
For the past 10 years, military personnel have enjoyed an expansion of benefits unrivaled in the history of the nation’s military – salary, health care benefits, pensions, and special pay …
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed details of the Obama administration’s defense budget proposal in an announcement at the Pentagon on Jan. 26.
The plan for fiscal year 2013, which starts …
As virtually everyone now knows, the congressional super committee’s abject failure to reach a deficit reduction agreement has triggered “sequestration.” The next question is: Now what?
Sequestration mandates $600 billion …
At the same time that the U.S. armed services and joint commands are evolving and refining their own sniper rifle system requirements, the U.S. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) …
Like many other large American corporations, defense contractor SAIC has placed a lot of emphasis on ethical business conduct as a series of corporate scandals have made front-page news in …
