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Women In Defense 2011 HORIZONS Scholarships Awarded

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The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage women to pursue careers related to U.S. national security and defense and to provide development opportunities to women already working in these fields. Since 1990, 110 HORIZONS scholarships totaling more than SI 50,000 have been awarded.
Update Emerges For New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rule

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[...] the councils added to the list of possible personal conflicts of interest violations a covered employee's failure to abide by a relevant non-disclosure agreement and removed the disciplinary remedies laid out in the earlier proposed version, such as: suspension of contract payments; loss of award fee; contract termination; and suspension and debarment. The final rule dictates step-by-step procedures that should be incorporated into ethics and compliance programs for contractors engaged in acquisition function-type contracts: * Obtain and maintain disclosure statements from all covered employees with any personal conflicts of interest, including family financial interests, prospective employment opportunities or business opportunities and any relevant gifts; * Require covered employees to update disclosure statements when circumstances change; * Block assignments of covered employees to tasks when relevant personal conflicts of interested cannot be mitigated; * Obtain signed non-disclosure agreements prohibiting disclosure of information derived from government contract performance; * Train employees on and discipline employees for violations of all of these obligations; and, * Report violations to the contracting officer "as soon as identified."
U&EA Committee Charter

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A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest LLC (“ProQuest”) supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience. More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others.
Stronger-Than-Steel Light Combat Trucks Still a Pipedream

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"To meet the limited budget, I don't see a lot of changes in the way we are currently armoring our vehicles, unless industry is able to bring down the cost per square foot or cost per pound of nano-composite type materials," The desired cost would be comparable to the price of specialty metals such as highhard steel, rolled homogeneous armor steel or alumina. Besides armor for side, top and underbody protection, ARL is investigating other non-traditional technologies such as explosive reactive armor and electromagnetic armor.
Unconventional and Emerging Armament Committee Formed

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The Unconventional and Emerging Armament (U&EA) Committee of the Armaments Division of the National Defense Industrial Association was recently formed to establish a forum whereby all forms of non-traditional, unconventional armaments and technologies at any stage of development can be showcased. The U&EA committee seeks to foster and promote these technologies and their related research in such areas as: policy; platform integration; basic science and technology; interoperability; concepts of operations; research and development, and testing and evaluation.
New Requirements, Lower Cost Breathe New Life Into JLTV

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A recent Congressional Research Service report stated that even a less expensive $230,000 JLTV "might prove to be difficult to justify." Because the program has been so fluid, teams that went through the technology development phase believe they have an edge over companies such as Oshkosh that have been preparing their designs from the outside looking in. Because some of the details are classified, and also to avoid tipping off the competition, company representatives are being tightlipped about specifics of their designs and their approaches to tKe protection requirements.
Improving Bad Driving Habits Can Lead to Fuel Savings in Military Vehicles

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What I don't know is how the military quantifies it. Because the long-haul trucker, his drive is a little bit different than someone looking for an IED.
Tough War Lessons Force Military Vehicle Programs To Consider Fuel Efficiency

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"With all the budget constraints and cuts, that's the wise thing to do: leverage all the technologies that are matured on the commercial side and modify them appropriately to use them in the military," said Mike Mekhithe, BAE Systems' Electronic Solutions Sector power and energy management director. The now defunct Southwest Research Institute administered consortium that tackled the emissions problem for 20 years did not have any military truck makers in its fold. Since they did not need to meet emissions standards, they had no motivation to join.
Robot-Makers Ponder Next Moves as Wars Wind Down

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The Navy, the executive agent in charge of developing and procuring bomb disposal robots for all four services, prior to the Iraq War had fielded one large EOD robot: the remote ordnance neutralization system or RONS, which was developed in the 1990s by Remotec, now a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. [...] as far as programs of record and the work necessary to build the kind of success in robotics that has been seen in aerospace and information technology industries? "No, it's not there," Dyer said. iRobot has sold millions of its Roomba vacuuming drones in the consumer market. First responders want to be able to send robots into dangerous areas with a suite of detection devices to scope out potentially hazardous areas.
Air Force F-35s, Drones May Square Off in Budget Battle

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The Defense Department is aiming for greater integration of all unmanned systems, to include aerial vehicles, submersibles and ground robots, according to the Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, a Defense Department report detailing the use of UAVs through fiscal 2036. For the Air Force, the biggest challenge is figuring out how UAV procurement relates to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, said Peter Singer, senior fellow for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative. The Air Force and Navy will always have [fighter and bomber] pilots, but you can debate whether future operators will be airborne, Dyer said.\n Army scout helicopter squadrons are being paired with General Atomics MQI C Gray Eagle drones to aid in target acquisition and reconnaissance missions.
Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age

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First is to retrofit and upgrade its existing fleet to get its current aircraft to the 2025 to 2030 timeframe. Even if a next-generation helicopter is developed, it will likely not be fielded for a decade or more. [...] the Army has launched a parallel effort to replace or recapitalize its Kiowa fleet so those aircraft last until 2025. [...] better automatic air-to-air avoidance should be able to track objects on the ground and in the air that pose a collision hazard for the aircraft and alert pilots in time for evasive maneuvers.
Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty

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Navy leaders are hopeful that, if the project is successful and if they can secure funds, they can launch a major procurement of a so-called UCLASS, or unmanned carrierlaunched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft. Besides the X-47B, other expected contenders are the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems' Avenger and a modified version of Boeing's Phantom Ray aircraft.
Avatars Invade Military Training Systems

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The influence of video games on military training has been substantial, and the military's interest in avatars - for soldiers and other actors in simulations - is growing. It was evident in the many products on display at the world's largest military training and simulation conference in Orlando - in the graphics, the props and the apparent ease with which younger soldiers adapt to a virtual setting. Catanzano sees two different sets of data - the circumstances surrounding a soldier's learning such as location and instructor, and specific information related to actual performance of a military operation.
Defense Industrial Policy Myths Debunked

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There was then a continuing business in military equipment for contractors. [...] during the Cold War, the US. government began closing government arsenals and shifting work to contractors when there were downturns in defense budgets as after Korea and Vietnam. Since the end of the Cold War, there have been five base realignment and closure (BRAC) commission reviews, which further eliminated government owned facilities.
Pentagon Resource Wars: Why They Can't Be Avoided

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The resource war, described in This War Really Matters by George C. Wilson (2000), dominates the thinking of flag officers and senior Pentagon officials alike, just as fund raising and rlection dominate the thinking of politicians. Because of the persistent competition among the services for resources, the pattern of service spending behavior has not changed over time, and it's there for all to see. [...] the Marine Corps, which must contend with Navy planners as well as those from other services, leveraged economies of scale to buy armored tactical vehicles with the Army. [...] spending tens of millions of dollars in unit costs for what is essentially a fast medium-sized helicopter is an unaffordable price to pay.