YONGYANG – North Korea’s hard-line communist regime is using old US-made target drones to develop unmanned attack aircraft, South Korea intelligence sources said Sunday.
“North Korea recently bought several US MQM-107D Streakers from a Middle Eastern nation that appears to be Syria, and is developing unmanned attack aircraft based on them,” the South’s Yonhap news [...]

CNN) — Some U.S. officials this year are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified government documents over cellular networks, according to people involved in the project.
The phones will run a modified version of Google’s Android software, which is being developed as part of an initiative that spans multiple federal agencies and government contractors, [...]

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expressing new concerns about Iran’s underground nuclear program, this time telling Washington Post columnist David Ignatius he’s worried Israel may decide to attack it as early as this spring.
Traveling with the defense secretary in Brussels to cover his meeting with NATO defense ministers, Ignatius writes, “Panetta believes there is [...]

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Brad McGavock was on duty this morning when we called the Tulsa National Weather Service office about the possible meteor ripping through the sky.
“Around 8 p.m. there was reported to be a sonic boom that was heard over the DFW area.”
McGavock says there was a report that a highway patrolman inadvertantly caught a glimpse [...]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) a .2 million contract for the purchase and integration of two more Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) payloads on two existing Block 20 Global Hawk aircraft.
BACN is a high-altitude, airborne communications and information gateway system that maintains operational communications support 24 hours a day, [...]

If this is (dated) white-world technology - imagine what they are cooking up in the black world?
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AVWK: EDWARDS AFB, Calif. —
By Guy Norris
A new U.S. Air Force X-plane designated X-56A will explore active control technology for potential use in future high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft.
Designed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, the X-56A flying wing will also later be flown by NASA, and is an innovative modular unmanned air vehicle designed [...]

So I’m lying in bed on a cold February morning. I know I should be awake by now but the room is cool and under the covers it feels toasty and good. I’m in that state between awake and asleep - floating. Suddenly my (then) wife comes into the room. She says, ” Sorry to [...]

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — The Taliban in Afghanistan depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it.
“It is a marriage of convenience,” Times of London reporter Jerome Starkey said Wednesday, citing the report. The Taliban see Pakistan as [...]