New Orleans, hit so hard by what so many (including President Obama in his Sunday interview with the local newspaper) still see fit to describe, mistakenly, as a natural disaster, is making remarkable progress, while the agency that so disastrously failed at building a protective system mandated by Congress -- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- may be making some of the same mistakes in rebuilding that system.
So he curbed or cancelled more than 30 weapons systems including the army's Future Combat System, the F-22 Stealth fighter, two missile defence systems and the Zumwalt-class destroyer.
To this day Turkey's political and legal system bears the marks of years of army-guided secularism.
"It's a major coup for Equivital, which, despite its small size - currently only 25 employees - provides the US Army with its human body monitoring system, " the company told BBC News.
And Syria's army has not so far managed to buy the air-defence system from Russia that it would like.
The Met's founders wanted to create a democratic body that was "in tune with the people" and so deliberately avoided the two-tier system of recruitment that existed in the army.
Pentagon policymakers pulled the plug on the Joint Tactical Radio System earlier this year, standing up a new Army-led organization and parceling out the various pieces to the services that will ultimately use the radios.
The White House expects a major battle with lawmakers from both parties over Defense Secretary Robert Gates's effort to overhaul defense-procurement policies and cut short production on the F-22 advanced fighter jet and the Army's Future Combat System.
The Army's main CREW system is the Warlock Duke, a vehicle- mounted radio jammer developed by Syracuse Research Corporation.
In addition to the software, customers pay dearly for hardware, and for the army of Epic-certified technicians that needs to be deployed to get the system up and running.
The Army's C-RAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) system, for example, which is used to protect American bases in Afghanistan, can fire on its own, using its six-barrel gun to blow up incoming mortars.
And although the EU insists Galileo is for civilian use only, opponents suspect a hidden military agenda - that the system could be used to as a guidance system by a future EU army, independent from NATO.
BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Galileo: Star project or black hole?
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