Admiral Timothy J. Keating, Commander, US Pacific Command will keynote the AOC's EW Modeling & Simulation Conference July 28-31 in Las Vegas, NV.
Members of the AOC Strategic Roost supported the 43rd Annual Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair at Nebraska City High School in March.
The FiestaCrow Golf Tournament raised $3,600 for the Billy Mitchell Chapter's Scholarship Program.
The chief of naval operations said Thursday on-time delivery of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s next-generation Joint Strike Fighter will be critical in closing the gap of the fighter jets needed to match current and future threats. (AP/Seattle P-I)
The appointment of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the next Afghanistan commander increases the chances that the United States will capture or kill Osama bin Laden, intelligence sources say. After all, it was McChrystal who went to Iraq in 2006 as the military's top manhunter. (US News & World Report)
Officials of the US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will test a ground-based laser warning system around the nation's capitol this week that is designed to keep unauthorized aircraft pilots from violating restricted air space around the White House and other sensitive government buildings. (Military & Aerospace)
Afghanistan isn't the same - strange to say, the situation there today seems even more dire than Iraq at the start of 2007. It's a rural country, the Taliban have nested deeply in Pashtun areas, the state is even more hollowed-out than Iraq's, and there is no obvious counterpart to the Sunni tribes that switched sides. (The New Yorker)
The United States military for the first time has provided Pakistan with a broad array of surveillance information collected by American drones flying along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, American military officials said last week. (The New York Times)
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