http://www.military.com/News/Home/0,13324,,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS Military News Center Friday, 16 May 2008 10:05:35 AM http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167945,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS Boeing plans to cautiously restart the CH-47 Chinook helicopter production line May 15, after shutting it down May 13 following the discovery of what the company is calling irregularities in two aircraft. 2008-05-15 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167879,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS At the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) in Nevada this past April, run by the Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center, some critical technologies for the Army's Future Combat Systems program were put to the test. 2008-05-14 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167816,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that he's launching a plan to more than double his country's defense budget over the next two decades -- to about C$30 billion a year. 2008-05-13 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167798,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS A contractor in Iraq accused of aggravated assault will face a U.S. military court-martial, the first such case under an amendment to rules covering civilians with U.S. forces in combat zones, officials said Monday. 2008-05-13 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167415,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS House Armed Services Committee (HASC) leaders are proposing Congress provide an additional $3.9 billion for 15 C-17 airlifters in fiscal 2009 budget-making, as well as $523 million above the Pentagon's request for F-22 advance procurement for 20 aircraft in fiscal 2010. 2008-05-08 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167258,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS Lockheed Martin is protesting the U.S. Navy's decision to award a $1.16 billion contract to Northrop Grumman to design and build its new Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aerial vehicles. 2008-05-07 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167299,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS While the United States remains the definitive leader in unmanned military vehicles, some of the most promising ones are being developed in other countries. 2008-05-06 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,166921,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS Most advances in retinal implants concentrate on restoring, not enhancing, sight. But there's hope yet for superhuman vision, and without surgery: A team at the University of Washington has created a contact lens assembled with functional circuitry and LEDs. 2008-05-03 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,166941,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS The Israel Air Force's stunning, undetected flight through Syria's air defenses late last year bears electronic fingerprints similar to those left in Baghdad by the U.S. in 1991 and 2003, say U.S. military and IT industry specialists. 2008-05-02 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,166815,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in Pakistan, and terrorist attacks in neighboring Afghanistan increased 16 percent last year, the U.S. said Wednesday. 2008-04-30