Arms Control Today asked MDA Director Trey Obering about speculation that MDA is scaling back testing to avoid further failures. Obering asserted that MDA would conduct four flight tests over the next year: ACT: Going back to testing, there are some people that have read the Independent Review Team report as suggesting that MDA should …
Alternative Cover Sheets for Classified Info
by | 2005-12-08 | 1 Comment
From today’s Secrecy News: ALTERNATIVE COVER SHEETS FOR CLASSIFIED INFO While underlying questions of secrecy and disclosure carry a potent primeval charge, the actual implementation of government secrecy policy is about as boring as it could be. In a rare attempt to leaven the subject with humor, some unidentified person has produced spoofs of the …
UCS Satellite Database
by | 2005-12-08 | No Comments
The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a database of operational satellites in orbit: The UCS Satellite Database is a listing of operational satellites currently in orbit around the Earth. It is available as a downloadable Excel file, which is updated roughly quarterly. Our intent in producing the database is to create a research tool …
A Nuclear Doctrine That Doesn't Deter
by | 2005-12-07 | No Comments
Listen to Rep. Tauscher at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference in 2005. Sixteen Democratic members of Congress, including Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), have released a letter to the President expressing concern that a proposed Joint Doctrine on Nuclear Operations would undermine the nonproliferation regime (more from Dave Ruppe). ACW revealed the existence of the draft Doctrine …
