Sentences with phrase «much military technology»

Given how much military technology gets transitioned into civilian use, it's only a matter of time before we see a civilian analog to the M - 25.

Not exact matches

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Much of the engaging read traces the evolution of military technology, from radar to GPS and spy satellites, weaving in tales of the mapmakers, inventors and scientists behind the discoveries.

Much of the SRI team's new external funding support and research direction came at the time from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research, whose directors were primarily interested in using the technology for military purposes, including small reconnaissance robots and lightweight power generators.

They also recommend that military use of brain technologies be controlled, much as chemical and biological weapons are under the Geneva Protocol.

When much of American pop culture was infatuated with the swinging, psychedelic 1960s, John Frankenheimer was focused on the decade's darker side — the sour aftertaste of McCarthyism, the expanding military - industrial complex, the growing sense that technology might be controlling us instead of the other way around.

The interior has been upgraded and moved up from the military to the luxury segment, the technology has been brought to a contemporary level, still the looks remained pretty much the same.

Bender pointed out that «Military technology has advanced significantly in the last quarter century and combat aircraft and warships are much more precise and pack a more powerful punch.»

I don't know whether you're talking about directed development or spin - off, but the former would include the space program and much of the military technology developed during the Cold War, while the latter would include, at least, the Internet, which AFAIK developed from military technology envisioned as producing a redundant communications network for battlefield use (ARPANET).

In a sense, Danzig's advice is to reject the notion of optimality, arguing that there is too much uncertainty about the environment to base any significant wager with respect to policy and even the technologies that undergird military force structure.