TOP 100 MILITARY SITES
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| Teams Begin Taping Holiday Greetings Overseas Three Joint Hometown News Service broadcast teams have begun to tape video greetings from troops and families based overseas for distribution to commercial TV and radio stations during the holiday season. defenselink.mil |
UAV Technology Enables Rapid Aerial Chemical Detection and Tracking Smiths Detection today announces the successful creation and demonstration of an unmanned aircraft chemical detection and identification system capable of warning troops against chemical warfare agents. The detection and identification system, able to fit in the interchangeable nose cone of a Raven® UAV, is a result of the collaborative efforts between Smiths Detection, AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (Nasdaq: AVAV), the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and other US Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories.To provide safe and effective standoff detection and identification capabil... army-technology.com |
HIV/AIDS Vaccine Has Promising Results Through combined military research programs and medical cooperation, the Defense Department has been able to accomplish incredible promise in a future vaccine development for HIV and AIDS, a senior official in that effort said. defense.gov |
Army to increase medevac support, add new CAB, more UAVs The Army G3 and former director of the Army aviation task force said not only will the Army add a new combat aviation brigade to the warfight, the Army will increase the number of aircraft in its medevac companies. army.mil |
Marine Unit Prepares for Haiti Response About 2,000 Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C., are preparing for what initially is expected to be about a 90-day deployment providing disaster-relief support in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. defense.gov |