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US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge

posted by martyb on Saturday April 11 2015, @09:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the US-Military--and/or--the-Military-Industrial-Complex? dept.

anubi writes:

I guess we have all seen all those wonderful toys coming from China. Technologies unimaginable a few years ago, like quadricopters and microminiature concealed cameras. It looks like the US Military is taking notice.

Other countries (such as China) build our stuff, understand how it works, and have found out how to make it very inexpensively. A remote-controlled drone was once the exclusive domain of law enforcement... now just about anyone who wants one can buy one.

Yup, it looks like the-powers-that-be are realizing their cats are getting out of the bag...

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:28AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:28AM (#168943) Journal

    Although the reform initiative will help, Kendall said the key to maintaining the US military's dominance was spending more money on research and development and attracting talented workers to oversee weapons programs.

    Potential automatic budget cuts, which Congress has imposed on the entire federal budget, could severely undermine vital research and the time lost carried its own cost, Kendall said.

    Time to ensure stable and prosperous working conditions for those that makes an dominant edge possible at all?

    I'm sure hilarious college fees, meager wages and paper filing helps our tech advantage..

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Entropy on Saturday April 11 2015, @12:33PM

    by Entropy (4228) on Saturday April 11 2015, @12:33PM (#168947)

    Don't forget outsourcing all the engineering and computer science work to other countries. It's nice that we want to be "high tech" and give all the "high tech" jobs away to people making $1/hour elsewhere...but that has some pretty predictable results like losing our edge.