Tag: Energy

What Can You Do With 50 bits per second

| June 30, 2011 | 9 Comments

Some things go up and some things go down. Force sizes are definitely going down, as we know only too well. Demand for sensor coverage is going up, in all theatres the need to have a ubiquitous and persistent network on which to overlay communications and sensor feeds is growing at an alarming rate. Despite [...]

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Future Proofing Defence Capability – Food for Thought

| August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

A recent article in The Independent on Sunday, 2nd August, highlighted the current problems with UK’s long-term commitment to Afghanistan.  With regard to this deployment, the British Ambassador to Washington, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, commented that UK forces could be there for ‘decades’.  By decades it is reasonable to assume that Sir Nigel means timescale of [...]

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