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IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
John Teresko |
Winning with Manual Machines Despite the promise of CNC equipment, many job shops still find that manual machines are getting the job done.   |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2005
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Making History: The Calm and the Storm This strategy game places you in the political mess known as Europe in the days preceding World War II. |
National Defense
September 2009
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Program Terminations Invariably Have Unintended Consequences One of the most controversial decisions was to end the F-22 fighter program at 187 aircraft. Some pundits, defense intellectuals and even government officials have contended that the F-22 is a Cold War weapon that is not needed for today's world. |
Chemistry World
June 9, 2014
Nina Notman |
Explosive end for Japan's second world war chemical weapons Progress is finally being made rounding up and destroying deadly weapons left behind in China that are still maiming and even killing people today. |
National Defense
November 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Gen. Keys: USAF Should Curb Appetite for Designer Weapons The pursuit of the perfect precision weapon may have gone too far, said a senior Air Force official. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
John Teresko |
Manual Machines: One Vendor's View CNC strategies are now being supported by manual machines. |
National Defense
March 2010
Austin Wright |
An X-Ray Machine for Nukes The government is upgrading the X-ray technology that detects flaws in its nuclear weapons stockpile. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 23, 2007 |
It Costs More Than You Think Two of the slowest areas of the retail brokerage industry to adopt process automation have been the direct business of mutual funds and annuities. |
Managed Care
September 2005 |
Improving Processes Easier Said Than Done Nearly all health plans intend to increase business process automation in the next two years, primarily to decrease errors while increasing productivity, according to a study. |
National Defense
January 2008
Sandra I. Erwin |
Nonlethal Weapons: Help or Hinder? A series of successful tests have boosted chances that a new nonlethal crowd-control weapon will be deployed to Iraq next year. But it appears doubtful that nonlethal weapons will become pervasive in combat zones in the foreseeable future. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
To Those Who Hate Taser The weapons company reports another stellar quarter. |
Science News
June 20, 2009
Elizabeth Quill |
Book Review: The Bomb: A New History By Stephen M. Younger Younger offers a straightforward account of nuclear weapons: how they were developed, how they work and how they forced humankind into constant vulnerability |
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2005 |
Non Lethal Weapons Programs in the US Among the programs currently under development at the USMC Non-Lethal Weapons Program are multi-sensory devices aimed to disable individuals within structures. |
Bank Technology News
August 2008
DiCristofaro & Kelly |
What's Driving IT Spend For Basel II The financial industry's largest banks and broker-dealers have faced considerable challenges in their efforts to improve financial risk management and satisfy evolving regulatory requirements generated by the Basel II Capital Accord. |
National Defense
March 2013 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on new soldier weapons, countering pirates at sea, and clarify the history of World War II. |
AboutSafety
November 29, 2000 |
Mishandled & Misunderstood New Occupational Health and Safety (Manual Handling) Regulations in Australia seek to reduce the number and severity of musculo-skeletal injuries and occupational over-use syndrome in the workplace. |
National Defense
January 2013
Dan Parsons |
Army, Marine Corps Succeed in Rapidly Fielding Specialized Individual Weapons In February, the Army began arming troops with the M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System, which can be fitted to the underside of an M4 carbine barrel. It offers troops the ability to carry one gun with the power of two. |
National Defense
July 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Air Force Seeking Funds to Connect Weapons in Flight The Air Force expects to get approval later this year to begin a two-year $30 million program to evaluate the use of communication devices aboard precision-guided missiles and bombs. |
Chemistry World
January 4, 2016
Emma Stoye |
Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons complete The disposal of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile has been completed, with the destruction of 75 litres cylinders of hydrogen fluoride by the waste disposal firm Veolia in Texas, US. |
National Defense
May 2008
Alan L. Gropman |
Uncertainty About Budgets, Workforce Shape Future of U.S. Weapons Industry Uncertainty about future conflicts and the capabilities of potential enemies raise complex questions about what weaponry the U.S. military will need to counter a wide spectrum of threats. |
National Defense
August 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Abandoned Chemical Weapons Pose Continual Threat Hidden chemical weapons are scattered across the globe, in rivers, bays, lakes and oceans, and buried in the ground at current and former military bases |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2002
Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
CFO
December 1, 2010
Marie Leone |
Total Trouble The older generation of Excel users remembers how potentially dangerous this Microsoft snag can be. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Will Ban's Demise Boost Investors? The expiration of the assault weapons legislation may increase manufacturers' profits. |
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2005 |
No Longer Science Fiction Military and security forces have been using less than lethal weapons for many years. |
Chemistry World
May 29, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Majority of global chemical weapons stockpiles destroyed The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has announced that 90% of the world's declared chemical weapons stockpiles have been destroyed. |
National Defense
January 2012
Eric Beidel |
Wireless System Monitors Weapons And Their Health Visible Assets Inc. recently received a $5 million order from the Defense Department for its system to be used on the SCAR-H battle rifle. The company's Allegro technology combines RuBee wireless identification tags, a shot counter and a custom chip that includes, among other things, an amplifier. |
Fast Company
February 2001 |
Get Ready for Act II A letter from the founding editors: Certain assumptions about the Internet economy have been shattered, but the new economy is not over. |
Popular Mechanics
February 9, 2009
Glenn Reynolds |
Can Obama Ban Space Weapons Successfully? Soon after President Obama took office, the White House Web site stated that the administration would seek a worldwide ban on weapons interfering with military and commercial satellites. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Robert N. Charette |
The More Things Change... A sampling of viewpoints about problems in defense acquisitions over the last 25 years. |
OCC Bulletin
July 28, 2006 |
Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Notification on the release of the revised BSA/AML Examination. |
National Defense
January 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Non-lethal Weapon Readied for Battlefield A directed energy weapon that causes a sensation tantamount to a "bee sting all over the body" to those unlucky enough to be on the receiving end could be deployed by the Air Force before the end of this year. |
National Defense
May 2008
Sandra I. Erwin |
Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy A hyperinflation tsunami now threatens to sink the Defense Department's purchasing power so dramatically that a weapons budget that currently funds 95 programs will pay for just a handful of big-ticket programs |
National Defense
March 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Non-Lethal Weapon May Spark Controversy No speakers elicited more questions from the audience at a recent directed energy conference than Stephanie Miller, a researcher working on a non-lethal weapon that employs microwave millimeter technology to make human targets recoil from attack by causing debilitating pain. |
National Defense
March 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Directed Energy Weapons Face Hurdles Directed energy weapons used by Stryker crews are on the verge of being deployed, but there are several hurdles program directors and policymakers must overcome if these new systems are to make an impact in urban battlefields. |
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2005 |
Non Lethal Directed Energy Weapons Anti-personnel nonlethal directed energy weapons include lasers, high power electro-magnetic pulse and directional acoustic weapons. |
Wired
March 2002
Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late... |
Science News
December 2, 2000 |
TimeLine: November 29, 1930 Child health weapons forged at white house conference... Million-watt broadcaster seen as next step in radio... Smoke blanket makes the city warmer... |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking Warn Of Potentially Devastating "AI Arms Race" The Future Of Life Institute, founded by Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn and MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, has published an open letter warning that artificially intelligent weapons could be in use within a decade, and could have devastating effects. |
National Defense
February 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Directed Energy: Low Power Weapons on the Rise As a result of growing demand in Iraq for handheld lasers, the Defense Department is reevaluating its long-term funding priorities for non-lethal weapons. |
