I asked Marc Schanz, journo-buddy of mine, to send along his impressions of Obering’s briefing the other day. I thought I would get some wry observations. Instead, I got a serious piece of defense journalism. Anyway, apparently Obering freaked when…
Gosh, I am going to miss ol’ Trey Obering when he retires in January. Ok, no I won’t. He gave an outbrief today that, I hear, was nothing of the sort — just the same tired hat-in-hand for MDA routine.…
In February 2007, Gazeta Wyborcza reported that four sites were under consideration for the US interceptor site in Poland: Zegrze Pomorskie, Debrzno, and Slupsk-Redzikowo. Since then, Redzikowo — a now defunct Polish airbase — has been looking like the place.…
I attended the Arms Control Association’s Avoiding Renewed U.S.-Russian Strategic Competition panel (remarks online transcript coming) yesterday. During the question and answer session, Representative Ellen Tauscher mentioned that a viable alternative to the European GMD site is a combination of…
Thanks for Marc and Matt for holding down the fort while I was away. The FAA issued three “notices to airman” (NOTAMs) that indicate that the Air Force is taking the Airborne Laser (ABL) out for a little spin this…
Hello, my name is Volodya. I am looking for work. A Grandy Jury indicted [the labor recruiting companies hired by] Keppel AmFELS for hiring 41 illegal aliens to work on the SBX platform: The three-year investigation leading to this indictment…
Aegis BMD is probably the one well-run missile defense program, one with both a feasible mission and a reasonable amount of technical risk. So, after a little trouble with their last flight test, I am happy to see that the…
Hey, all. I am in Tokyo, attending a conference, Collective Security in Space: Asian Perspectives on Acceptable Approaches sponsored by the Space Policy Institute, Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Research Institute for Peace and Security. I was having breakfast…
Friend of Wonk Allen Thompson sends along this little update from the October 2006 issue of Seafarer’s Log: Twenty-six Seafarers recently were lauded for their contributions to the Department of Defense’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) X-Band Radar (XBR) Project office…
Okay folks, we are back. If I could trouble you, oh friends of wonk, please pass the word around. Send e-mails, bring it up over white russians, what-have-you. Friend of Wonk Allen Thomson wins a prize for big catch—the Missile…
