Ellie Maruyama, co-author of the “‘Terrorist Use of Virtual Currencies: Containing the Potential Threat” report, and Elizabeth Rosenberg, senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, discuss the risk of terrorists utilizing these high-tech economic tools to finance terrorism. Zachary Goldman, Edoardo Saravalle and Julia Solomon-Strauss also co-authored the report.
In the second installment of Defense & Aerospace Report’s exclusive exit interview with Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, USAF, program executive officer of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program, Bogdan discusses operational lessons learned from fighter jets already in the field, the state of F-35 connectivity and the “competition” between the F-35 Lightning II and the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris at 10:22 p.m. local time, completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight.
On May 20, 1951, during the Korean War, U.S. Air Force Capt. James Jabara scored his fifth and sixth victories aboard the F-86 Sabre, officially becoming the world’s first jet-to-jet ace.
On May 19, 2000, Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched as part of the STS-101 mission to repair and reequip the International Space Station, according to NASA. The overall mission clocked in at just under 10 days.
Jack Logan, PhD, electrical engineer at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses low-cost, ultra-wideband phased array antennas and their potential applications for the US Navy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on May 18, 2017.
Eric Gillman, research physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses dusty plasma, its potential applications for defense innovation, “Big Bang Theory” and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon on May 18, 2017.
Maj. Joe Minor, US Army, program manager for RDECOM Rotorcraft Degraded Visual Enviroment Mitigation (as well as an experimental test pilot), discusses the DVEM program with Defense & Aerospace Report Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on May 18, 2017.
