Bear with me for a minute. Go to the DOD Comptroller’s FY 2006 PBR website, click “Defense_Wide Budget Documentation” and mouse over “RDT&E.” You are now looking at the detailed summaries (R2s if you know the lingo) from the President’s Budget Request (and you thought PBR only referred to a watery domestic). These summaries contain …
Bolton Iraq Wankery
by | 2005-03-16 | No Comments
You’ve likely noticed that the office of Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a letter describing State Department efforts to “conceal unclassified information about the role of John Bolton … in the creation of a [December 2002] fact sheet distributed to the United Nations that falsely claimed Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.” That fact sheet, …
Russian Nuclear Security Follies
by | 2005-03-16 | No Comments
Hands up! Participants celebrate. Reuters reports on Expedition Trophy 2005—a 15,000 km Murmansk to Vladivostok road rally through the Siberian wilderness: Another team, called Severny Dozor (the North Watch) and made up of Russians and Americans in two Chevrolet trucks, got lost in thick forests near Saratov, ending up at a secret nuclear missile base. …
Spacecraft for the Unmanned Modification of Orbits (SUMO)
by | 2005-03-15 | No Comments
DARPA is the gift that keeps on giving. I noticed this new start in the DARPA budget: Program (US$ Millions) 2006 2007 Spacecraft for the Unmanned Modification of Orbits (SUMO) 12.6 22.3 “SUMO combines detailed stereo photogrammetric imaging with robotic multi degree of freedom manipulators,” DARPA exclaims, “to autonomously grapple space objects without custom interfaces.” …
