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National Defense
January 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Mini-Flail Robots Readied for Afghanistan Bomb Clearing Operations The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization will send expendable robots to Afghanistan next year that can move ahead of dismounted troops and destroy hidden bombs.   |
U.S. CPSC
August 24, 2009 |
CPSC Alert: Whitco Co. LP Stadium Light Poles Can Fall Over, Posing Risk of Serious Injury and Death To reduce the risk of injury, Whitco Co. LP outdoor steel stadium light poles should be inspected immediately. |
National Defense
January 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Buried Bombs Can Be Destroyed, But Not Defeated The weapons of choice of U.S. enemies, improvised explosive devices, are like deadly viruses that mutate in reaction to vaccines. They cannot be wiped out, only temporarily thwarted. |
U.S. CPSC
July 6, 2010 |
Recall to Repair: Whitco Company LP Stadium Light Poles Can Fall Over, Posing Risk of Serious Injury and Death The poles can fracture or crack and fall over, posing a risk of serious injury or death to patrons and bystanders from being hit or crushed. The poles range from 1 to 4 tons increasing the risk of death if the pole falls toward a crowded stadium or onto a building. |
National Defense
December 2009
Grace V. Jean |
To Train Troops, Army Creates Digital Reenactments of Roadside Bomb Attacks Video footage of insurgents burying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, is among the data collected by analysts who are assisting simulation experts at the joint training counter-IED operations integration center. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008
John Keller |
Counter-IED System Procurement Sets New Standards for Speedy Deployment Leaders of the Pentagon's Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) are setting new standards for speedy weapon system procurement. They hope to fund systems to counter roadside bombs within two months from initial proposal. |
Outside
May 2003
Sam Moulton |
Power Sticks Go for a hike in the Alps and you'll notice a curious thing: Euros love their walking canes. Recent studies in Europe and the States show that today's ultralightweight poles reduce stress on your muscles and joints and can increase by miles the distance you cover in a day. |
Defense Update
Issue 2, 2005 |
IED -- Shaped Charges Attacks on American troops from IEDs are on the rise. US forces are using jamming devices to disable remote controlled denotation, but the insurgents are adapting with new techniques. |
National Defense
November 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Progress at Warfighting Lab Measured in Ounces Reducing the weight Marines must bear in the field is one of the Marine Corps warfighting laboratory's primary goals. |
National Defense
July 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Still Playing Catch-Up With Bomb Makers The U.S. military's cadre of bomb disposal technicians needs lighter equipment, the ability to detect explosives at stand-off distances and their sensors consolidated into one handheld device. |
National Defense
October 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Amid Bursting Bombs, Services Seek Better Body Armor As roadside bombs take an increasingly costly toll among U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military services are struggling to provide more effective body armor for deployed forces. |
National Defense
November 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Multiple sensor system finds roadside IEDs Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan will be receiving 67 gyro-stabilized camera systems that will be mounted on joint explosive ordnance disposal rapid response vehicles. |
National Defense
April 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Mobile Simulators Give Soldiers Early Roadside Bomb Training The mobile counter-IED interactive trainer is one of two new simulators exposing ground forces to the hazards they may face before they arrive in Afghanistan or Iraq. |
National Defense
April 2010
Stew Magnuson |
JIEDDO Chief Seeks Help as Roadside Bombs Plague Afghanistan The new director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, wants contractors, small businesses, or inventors working in their basements to come forward with any devices or thoughts on how to defeat roadside bombs. |
National Defense
July 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Improvised Explosive Threat Reaches Global Scale The end state of successful accomplishment of a special U.S. military group's mission is eliminating the improvised explosive device as a weapon of strategic influence for the enemy. It's no singular, simple task. |
National Defense
December 2004
Michael Peck |
Marines Unveiling Two New Games The Marine Corps is adapting two commercial video games---one a first-person-shooter and the other a platoon level strategy game---for training purposes. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006
Eric S. Fellen |
Wire It Yourself Carving holes in walls may seem like a no-no, but it's the only way to run (and hide) Ethernet, television cables, and even extra power jacks. Here's how. |
National Defense
July 2005
Michael Peck |
Marines Share Hard-Earned Knowledge Marines fighting in Iraq have concluded that, in order to defeat insurgents, the urban tactics learned in the United States require a substantial makeover. |
National Defense
September 2007
Grace Jean |
Small Unit Leaders Need Better Training Marine Corps planners have begun a series of combat experiments designed to sharpen the skills of dismounted troops. |
