The Military Industrial Complex and Your Tax Dollar

Future unmanned tankers and drones will use advanced carrier landing system

by Brian Wang

U.S. Navy’s future unmanned tanker will use the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System developed for F35 and other jet landings on US aircraft carriers.

The Navy will use the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, or JPALS for short, to land the MQ-25 unmanned aircraft onto carriers without a human at the controls. Known as the Stingray, the Navy’s future unmanned carrier aviation air system will provide inflight refueling to the U.S. fleet’s fighters, allowing them to operate at far greater ranges than before.

“When you’re talking about auto-landing a flying unmanned tanker onto an aircraft carrier, then the system has to be infallibly accurate, which JPALS is,” said Mark Maselli, Raytheon JPALS deputy program manager. [..] Source

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I don’t know about you but that statement that “the system has to be infallibly accurate” is a red flag. According to Raytheon it is infallible. Really? How many times has the american tax payer been assured that something will work with out a hitch, only to have the military and/or contractor have to admit to their miscalculation. (Real or intended.)

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High energy combat laser fired from an Apache AH-64 helicopter

by Brian Wang

A high energy laser mounted on an Apache AH-64 attack helicopter acquired and hit an unmanned target. The test was conducted by Raytheon and the U.S. Army Apache Program Management Office in collaboration with U.S. Special Operations Command at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

It was the first time a fully integrated laser system successfully shot a target from a rotary-wing aircraft over a wide variety of flight regimes, altitudes and air speeds, proving the feasibility of laser attack from Apache.

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“Our goal is to pull the future forward,” said Art Morrish, vice president of Advanced Concepts and Technologies for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. “This data collection shows we’re on the right track.”

For the test, Raytheon coupled a variant of the Multi-Spectral Targeting System, an advanced, electro-optical, infrared sensor, with a laser. The MTS provided targeting information, situational awareness and beam control. [..] Source

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Outside the obvious military applications of this flying laser beam let us consider the possible use of this techknowledgey against a “civilian target.”

Pedal to the metal Scotty

Not satisfied with control of the earth, “The Complex” wants to go where no man has gone before. 

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If EMdrive is real and scales with Q factor then we get almost Star Trek level Technology

by Brian Wang

Adam Crowl considers spaceships if EM-Drive is verified as a real thing.

If the NASA emdrive performance of 1.2 millinewtons per kilowatt.

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If EMDrive performance increases with the Q-factor as some have theorized, then we could tune the cavity and make it superconducting. If we take the NASA EM-Drives and pump the Q factor to ~30 million, then about 2 GW power is needed for the sustained 1 gee thrust.

[There are a lot of IF’s listed in this article with solutions to make it a reality, so we will cut to the chase. TLB]

Not only will we have Space Cops and Military Patrols zooming around… we will “use solar power for Emdrive to counter gravity on earth. It would be virtual anti-gravity. Structures that would be possible would not just be flying cars or floating antigravity but flying cities. Source 

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Because of the anticipated time element for the Military Space Command to act quickly and get from one place to another, it is almost a “Beam me up” scenario.

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Ultra-Thin Camera Without Lenses uses optical phased array

by Brian Wang

The OPA chip placed on a penny for scale. Credit: Caltech/Hajimiri Lab

Caltech engineers have developed a new camera design that replaces the lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased array (OPA). The OPA does computationally what lenses do using large pieces of glass: it manipulates incoming light to capture an image.

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“Here, like most other things in life, timing is everything. With our new system, you can selectively look in a desired direction and at a very small part of the picture in front of you at any given time, by controlling the timing with femto-second—quadrillionth of a second—precision,” says Ali Hajimiri, Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, and the principal investigator of a paper describing the new camera. The paper was presented at the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and published online by the OSA in the OSA Technical Digest in March 2017.

“We’ve created a single thin layer of integrated silicon photonics that emulates the lens and sensor of a digital camera, reducing the thickness and cost of digital cameras. It can mimic a regular lens, but can switch from a fish-eye to a telephoto lens instantaneously—with just a simple adjustment in the way the array receives light,” Hajimiri says. Source

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[To read complete articles posted above, click on “Source.”]

“The Complex” and it’s activities are endless. As an example here is a round-up of News from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency:

6/23/2017

DARPA to Host “Sync with STO” Event

DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO) is hosting a “Sync with STO” event on August 2 – 3, 2017, designed to familiarize attendees with STO’s mission, problem spaces, program managers (PMs), and technology interests. The event aims to facilitate technical discussion between STO PMs and attendees that explore innovative and revolutionary ideas for addressing national security challenges.

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6/15/2017

Transforming How Troops Fight in Coastal Urban Environments

As nation-state and non-state adversaries adapt and apply commercially available state-of-the-art technology in urban conflict, expeditionary U.S. forces face a shrinking operational advantage. To address this challenge, a new DARPA program is aiming to create powerful, digital tools for exploring novel expeditionary urban operations concepts—with a special emphasis on coastal cities, where future such battles are deemed most likely to occur. The program will test the new tools and concepts in an integrated virtual environment, with the ultimate goal of developing fluidly composable force packages able to maximize tactical advantage in these complex, urban environments.

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6/2/2017

New ways of representing information could transform digital technology

Many people who use computers and other digital devices are aware that all the words and images displayed on their monitors boil down to a sequence of ones and zeros. But few likely appreciate what is behind those ones and zeros: microscopic arrays of “magnetic moments” (imagine tiny bar magnets with positive and negative poles). When aligned in paralleled in ferromagnetic materials such as iron, these moments create patterns and streams of magnetic bits—the ones and zeros that are the lifeblood of all things digital.

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6/2/2017

Extracting Insight from the Data Deluge Is a Hard-to-Do Must-Do

A mantra of these data-rife times is that within the vast and growing volumes of diverse data types, such as sensor feeds, economic indicators, and scientific and environmental measurements, are dots of significance that can tell important stories, if only those dots could be identified and connected in authentically meaningful ways. Getting good at that exercise of data synthesis and interpretation ought to open new, quicker routes to identifying threats, tracking disease outbreaks, and otherwise answering questions and solving problems that previously were intractable.

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6/1/2017

Beyond Scaling: An Electronics Resurgence Initiative

The Department of Defense’s proposed FY 2018 budget includes a $75 million allocation for DARPA in support of a new, public-private “electronics resurgence” initiative. The initiative seeks to undergird a new era of electronics in which advances in performance will be catalyzed not just by continued component miniaturization but also by radically new microsystem materials, designs, and architectures. The new funds will supplement the Agency’s FY 2018 R&D portfolio in electronics, photonics, and related systems to create a coordinated effort valued at more than $200 million, to be further supplemented by significant commercial sector investments.

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5/31/2017

Teaching Robots “Manners”: Digitally Capturing and Conveying Human Norms

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are making virtual and robotic assistants increasingly capable in performing complex tasks. For these “smart” machines to be considered safe and trustworthy collaborators with human partners, however, robots must be able to quickly assess a given situation and apply human social norms. Such norms are intuitively obvious to most people—for example, the result of growing up in a society where subtle or not-so-subtle cues are provided from childhood about how to appropriately behave in a group setting or respond to interpersonal situations. But teaching those rules to robots is a novel challenge.

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5/24/2017

DARPA Picks Design for Next-Generation Spaceplane

DARPA has selected The Boeing Company to complete advanced design work for the Agency’s Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, which aims to build and fly the first of an entirely new class of hypersonic aircraft that would bolster national security by providing short-notice, low-cost access to space. The program aims to achieve a capability well out of reach today—launches to low Earth orbit in days, as compared to the months or years of preparation currently needed to get a single satellite on orbit.

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We will leave you with this thought. The Military Industrial Complex has very little accountability… and the Global Elite planned it that way. Most of your elected government officials are “on the take” from the Industry lobbyist that comes knocking on their door. The government bureaucrats (civil service.. etc) are in the center of power day after day and year after year… AND THEY JUST DON’T CARE!

The only way We The People can know what is going on and what measures we need to take to keep some semblance of Constitutional Sanity is to stay informed, stay involved and stay on course with “the Compass of Truth.” (RE)

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