John Fleck has an article on the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program in the Albuquerque Journal. John makes some headway in attempting to chart the various ratonales for the program, which has its origins in a compromise between Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Representative David Hobson (R-OH). (The Bulletin’s weblog has more.) That compromise shifted $ …
JEL'ing Like Olivier
by | 2005-04-12 | No Comments
Olivier Minkwitz of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in German) dowloaded all the Joint Staff draft documents. He used Firefox’s downLoadThemnAll plugin, which is yet another reason to defect from MS in the browser wars. Olivier is happy to make the draft documents available to anyone interested. Thanks, man.
"Mr. Smith" is Fulton Armstrong
by | 2005-04-11 | 5 Comments
The anonymous “Mr. Smith” from the Bolton hearings, if I understand Senators Kerry and Lugar correctly, is Fulton Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for Latin America since June 2000. Here is Armstrong’s bio from an archived copy of the NIC website (as of December 2003): Fulton Armstrong National Intelligence Officer for Latin America Fulton T. Armstrong …
More on the XSS-11
by | 2005-04-11 | No Comments
Spaceflight Now has a longer article on the XSS-11, which the Air Force successfully launched today at 9:35 am EDT. Colonel Richard White, commander of Space and Missile System Center’s Detachment 12, stated “We can say categorically, there’s nothing that ejects out of the satellite.” That is welcome news and, apparently, a change from the …
