Boston Marathon: Can Technology Do a Better Job of Finding Bombs?
New sensors can detect explosives by scent and sight
Going Back to School for Drone Pilot Training
There will be 10 000 commercial drones by 2018. They’ll need pilots
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Are Boeing's Battery Difficulties Part of a Much Bigger Problem?
Seventy percent of the Dreamliner is preassembled by a tiered system of subcontractors that Boeing has never used before
California’s Payroll Project Debacle: Another $50 Million Up in Smoke
Also: IT projects ablaze at the UN and U.S. Army; USAF and Marin County play with matches again
North Korea's Nuclear Fingerprints As Seen in Norway
A geophysicist north of Oslo could trace the explosion to its source by its sonic fingerprint
How to Find a Nuclear Explosion in North Korea
Wondering how the world knows when a somebody tests a nuclear device? Here's how
IT Hiccups of the Week: Digital Navigation Error Leads to Dismantling of U.S. Navy Ship
Technical issues hit Amazon, Bank of America, PayPal and Twitter; Another Market Snafu in India
IT Hiccups of the Week: I Don’t Have Your Cellphone, Honest
U.S. Navy ship finds digital map error the hard way, and fathers misidentified on Pennsylvania birth certificates
F-35 Software: DoD's Chief Tester Not Impressed
Director of Operation Test & Evaluation says “virtually no progress” being made on fully combat capable software
The Human Face Within Big Data
A new book sees big data as mostly good, a little scary, and full of people
U.S. Air Force Blows $1 Billion on Failed ERP Project
And in another ERP debacle, Avantor sues IBM over its “failed” SAP implementation
F-35 Program Continues to Struggle with Software
Military to Lockheed Martin: Don’t expect any more money to fix problems
Book Review: Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
An audacious graphic novel covers an old subject—the Manhattan Project—in a new and revealing way
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The Truth About Terahertz
Anyone hoping to exploit this promising region of the electromagnetic spectrum must confront its very daunting physics
Scram, Jet, You Bother Me
The scramjet-powered X-51A blew up, and the cause of hypersonic air transport was set back…again
UAV flies on laser light
Lockheed and LaserMotive power an unmanned aircraft from a distance
U.S. Air Force’s Plug-and-Play Satellites
Satellite design doesn’t have to be rocket science
Green War Games
U.S. Navy's "great green fleet" uses biofuels in Pacific demonstrations
Boeing Lets Executive Go—From a Height
Jim Albaugh is the latest victim in the company’s youth movement
U.S. Bill Would Fight Chip Counterfeiting
Or at least make fighting it more efficient
Fastest Jet Fighter: Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor
Robert Novotny on Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor
Fastest Helicopter: Sikorsky Aircraft’s X2
Kevin Bredenbeck explains the Advancing Blade Concept of coaxial rotors
Smart Bullets
The “Mini-Me” of smart-bomb technology is ready to leave the lab
Plant DNA vs. Counterfeit Chips
A genetic mark might help keep counterfeit components out of the electronics supply chain
The World According to DARPA
The most famous name in American innovation today isn’t Apple or Google. It’s DARPA. Here’s why
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Management Was "Acquisition Malpractice" DoD Says
But no options means moving ahead with aircraft procurement anyway
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Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs
A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
Who is Accountable when Drones Kill?
US defense realignment increases reliance on drones and other types of special warfare capabilities
EE Helped NCIS-LA Plot E-Bomb Attack
NCIS Los Angeles uses E-bomb idea of IEEE member Carlo Kopp
E-Bombs: What is the Threat?
Carlo Kopp, pioneer in the area, argues the threat is larger than one might think