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