Showing posts with label Innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Innovation. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Sounds like a "neo-con"!

November 16, 2014 AP , Budget 0 Comments
Hagel: US Needs Game-Changing Military Innovation

Robert Burns, Nov. 16, 2014, Associated Press

Hagel announced a "defense innovation initiative" that he likened to historic and successful campaigns during the Cold War to offset military advantages of U.S. adversaries. He described a "game-changing" strategy to sharpen American's military edge in the face of budget impasses on Capitol Hill.

"We must change the way we innovate, operate and do business," he told a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

In a memo to Pentagon leaders in which be outlined the initiative, Hagel said the U.S. must not lose its commanding edge in military technology.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Taking the "idiot" out of idiot proof!

August 26, 2014 Ashley Halsey lll , Automotive 1 Comments
Driverless vehicles? Even In D.C. streets?

Driverless BMW
Source:  www.drive.com.au
By Ashley Halsey lll, Aug. 25, 2014, Washingtonpost.com

Driverless cars are coming. And those of us who drive in Washington know that the city offers its own particular version of driver hell. What we don’t know is what will happen when the autocar finds itself in that hell. So we set out on a summer afternoon to see how a driverless car could do on the streets of the nation’s capital.

The little car is tootling around Washington — pretty much on its own — when a police officer bolts into the road ahead of it, almost within spitting distance of the Capitol dome.

What is the cop waving about? Hard to say. The car is being driven by computers, and wild waving is a bit too complicated for them to understand.

Passenger Jarrod Snider taps a button on the center console and puts his hands on the steering wheel.

“Autonomous ready,” the voice of the computer says a fraction of a second later, eager to take control again.

Swing a stick on the Mall this summer and you’ll hit a dozen skeptics who doubt that the streets of Washington — or any city — will ever be filled with cars that drive themselves. But the doubters may well witness that transformation in their lifetimes, and very likely sooner than they think.

The ability of the vehicle cruising unnoticed among the tourists and important people in pinstripes on Capitol Hill would shock most of them. A ride in it also points to a few chinks in its armor.

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