Sentences with phrase «military system at»

2016 Magazine Feature: An inside look at the government's epic attempt to prosecute the five accused 9/11 plotters in an untested military system at Guantanamo Bay — and defense lawyers» efforts to prevent the government from executing the men they say are torture victims.

«Taranis looks set to put the UK ahead of the game in UCAVs,» says Noel Sharkey, a robotics engineer specialising in the autonomous military systems at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

Not exact matches

In March, 2011, the President signed an executive order that would «create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security,» commented The Washington Post.

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) may be best known for military and defense use, but commercialization of the sector is occurring as recent technological developments have led to more uses for UAS at reduced costs and required manpower.

«The Russian military in Syria has air - defense systems theoretically capable of shooting down US Tomahawk missiles,» Justin Bronk, an air - combat expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider.

Additionally, the US military at Guam has the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile - interceptor system, perhaps the most reliable anywhere.

«We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area,» the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said at a press briefing.

The current military retirement system provides a generous pension — starting at 50 % of your base pay every year for life if you stay in the service for 20 years, or up to 75 % if you remain for 30 years.

On Tuesday, at an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran put on display new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

AWR has also developed an interesting second sector by operating and maintaining water and wastewater systems at various military bases.

I guess evangelicals also aim to take control of the gubment and force us all to convert at gun - point (or as many also believe, at welfare - check revocation point)-- their unabashed fervor to take over the military academies and promote their belief system there is shockingly bold.

And in fact, we can learn a lesson from its defeat in terms of the strength of capitalism as a global system, which used all political and military means at its disposal to bring about the downfall of socialism.

Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

During the roundtable discussion, which was led by Rep. Stefanik, Vice Chair, House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness at the nonpartisan Oneonta Vets Club in Oneonta, Faso emphasized the need to strengthen our military, modernize our weapons systems and ensure our forces are well equipped around the globe — while also streamlining expensive and burdensome procurement procedures.

The findings are among the first results from the RAND study that is the largest, most - comprehensive independent look at how the U.S. military health system treats service members with PTSD and depression.

The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast - exposed military veterans were indistinguishable from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers, led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System.

The Boomerang system, developed in response to sniper threats to US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, uses a seven - microphone array mounted at the rear of military vehicles.

The biggest waste, I would suggest, lies in the Pentagon budget, which now stands at around 5 percent of GDP and finances two expensive wars, hundreds of overseas military bases, and overpriced service contracts and weapons systems.

«As more of our active military returns from deployment and transitions to veteran status, the health care system will be faced with treating more transgender veterans who have mental health issues,» said principal investigator Marissa Grotzke, MD, an endocrinologist at Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Salt Lake City.

I was given access to military personnel at every level of the civilian casualty — tracking system, from the collection and quality - checking of CIVCAS data to the analysis that leads to new combat directives.

The trouble is that there have been so few successes in converting military production lines into civilian ones that when the former designers and builders of radar systems saw the opportunity they grabbed it — all of them, at the same time and without any coordination, says Cooper.

«A hacker could make a hospital look like a target to a military drone or a person of interest look like an innocent stranger to a face - recognition security system,» says Jeff Clune at the University of Wyoming.

Boston Dynamics has several other robots in the works for the military, including its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) and a fleet - footed newcomer called Cheetah that can run nearly 30 kilometers per hour, breaking the 21 kph land speed record for legged robots set in 1989 at the Leg Laboratory, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

In the same way that someone in the military first notices whether another soldier is wearing the same uniform before looking at the insignia that mark that soldier's rank, the ants operate in a highly hierarchical system and must pay attention to the context as well as the details of an individual's status.

Peyton, who worked with Alyson Young, graduate student in information systems, and Wayne Lutters, associate professor of information systems, both at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, said that the players quickly adopted a leadership structure that resembled the U.S. military's leadership hierarchy.

It is this characteristic that makes passive systems so attractive to the military, says David Bebbington, a radar expert at the University of Essex in Colchester, UK.

On 14 June, pro-Russian separatists used a MANPAD system to shoot down a Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin - 76 military transport at Luhansk airport in Ukraine, killing all 49 people on board.

The L - 29 jet (acquired from the Ukrainian military) is one of the few planes capable of burning biodiesel at present, thanks to a built - in fuel warming system.

At the end of October, the aerospace company BAE Systems revealed that it is developing small, directed energy pulse weapons designed to be deployed on military drones.

Anand reported on his lab - grown brain Tuesday (Aug. 18) at the 2015 Military Health System Research Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Kojima Productions is currently working hard on a PS4 console exclusive, and judging from various job opportunities at the studio, Kojima's upcoming title might well be some a SCI - FI title set in a military setting, and will include RPG elements, and possibly a crowd AI system.

Programs such as CalStateTEACH (part of the California State University system), the Military Career Transition Program at Old Dominion University, and Project Promise at Colorado State University generally combine course work, mentoring, and on - the - job experience.

(The hyperbole in «A Nation at Risk» is even more obvious today, in light of the fact that the system it maligned played a major role in producing the leaders of the digital revolution and in sustaining a military and an economy that are the envy of the world.)

There is no rational reason for this system to be revived and there are oligarchs, and people at Goldman Sachs, and people in the US government and military that know this.

The districts are among at least 13 in the Pennsylvania counties neighboring Philadelphia that are either doing away with rank entirely; keeping it under wraps for a few select colleges, such as military academies that require it; or changing the system to show how students compare with others in their class without assigning numbers.

At this point, the military turned to coercing women in areas of Japanese occupation to join the system.

He has a BSE in systems engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

For those unaware of what the Shield actually is, this isn't some sort of military - grade GPU - it's Nvidia's first ever game system, announced at CES 2013.

As the central characters bond with fellow initiates and enjoy life at Thors Military Academy, they earn new abilities in battle via the game's tactical turn - based Combat Link System, netting benefits such as healing and guarding bonuses.

Players take on the role of elite military students at a time of great turmoil, who enjoy school life as they bond with fellow students to earn new abilities in battle, and then utilize those abilities via tactical turn - based combat, which is complemented by the newly - developed «ARCUS» system.

In the game, players take on the role of specially - selected elite military students at a time of great turmoil, enjoying school life and bonding with fellow students to earn new abilities in battle, then utilizing those abilities via speedy, tactical turn - based combat with the newly - developed «ARCUS» system.

With a standalone story that also delves into the expansive lore that has become synonymous with the series, players take on the role of military students at a time of great turmoil, enjoying school life and bonding with fellow students to earn new abilities in battle, then utilizing those abilities via speedy, tactical turn - based combat with the newly - developed «ARCUS» system.

The exhibition includes Maisel's photographs and video projections based on his work at Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military setting in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert devoted to testing and development of chemical and biological weapons and defense systems.

His artistic incursions in the 1970s, which at the time were seen as an authentic system of counter-information in Brazil, have become legendary: messages criticising the military dictatorship, for example, were printed in white on empty Coca - Cola bottles, which were then filled and offered for sale.

Further inland, Ahmad Ghossein's solo exhibition at Marfa» gallery centred on Southern Lebanon, where a complex history of French colonial rule, local feudalism, and Israeli military occupation has resulted in a system of land ownership based not on cadastral survey but on communal consensus.

If we can ever get around to stop destabilizing large parts of this planet, then they won't seem so «threatening» — then, we can shrink the military back from the $ 600 billion monstrosity that it is now (as poster # 4 rightly said) and focus on human security at home and abroad: adequate shelter, food, health, education, and an energy system that won't fry the only livable planet we have.

At Motorola, we have a proven history of providing secure and dependable voice radio systems for the military, police and fire departments and utilities.

The United States Air Force has signed a contract with the Schafer Corporation of Massachusetts to allow a test of concentrating solar power (CSP) at a Maui, Hawaii military site in an attempt to offset a military computer system's power demand.

At present the military system constitutes a lottery as to which cases will be dealt with and by whom.

Shawn Cheadle is the General Counsel to the Military Space line of business at Lockheed Martin Space Systems.