by August Cole | May 21, 2014 | Monitor
A key Air Force panel appears ready to recommend the U.S. take a significant step in shoring up its space-launch capabilities by developing a domestic alternative to the Russian rocket engines that currently lift some of America’s most sensitive military and...
by August Cole | May 9, 2014 | Monitor
In sport, it is harder to imagine equipment with a tougher life than a hockey puck. It survives on the ice because it is made from rubber. To an engineer like Dr. Peter Wegner, former head of the Defense Department’s Office of Operationally Responsive Space, it is a...
by August Cole | May 8, 2014 | Monitor
There comes a point at which tomorrow becomes today. For the U.S. national security approach to space that moment is now. We are into the second decade of the 21st Century and the U.S. is at a critical point in its evolution as a space-going nation. The Space...
by August Cole | May 2, 2014 | Monitor
When people in the defense community talk about change, it is often portrayed as a foreseeable or knowable drift from the status quo. It is the kind of thing that conferences can be planned around well in advance. The binds of a bilateral military relationship slowly...
by August Cole | May 2, 2014 | Monitor
When people in the defense community talk about change, it is often portrayed as a foreseeable or knowable drift from the status quo. It is the kind of thing that conferences can be planned around well in advance. The binds of a bilateral military relationship...