Author Archives: Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D
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Budget Control Act Undermines Efforts To Improve Weapons Procurement Process
April 25, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D What’s wrong with this picture? Just about everybody in Congress who follows military acquisition agrees the Pentagon could save billions of dollars annually by reducing unnecessary overhead and adopting smart buying practices. Meanwhile, the Air Force is delaying ramp-up of [Read More...] -
Four Ways The Ukraine Crisis Could Escalate To Use Of Nuclear Weapons (From Forbes)
April 24, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D The greatest danger the United States faces in the ongoing Ukraine crisis is that somehow the situation will escalate to a level where one or the other side employs nuclear weapons. That may seem improbable at the moment, but if [Read More...] -
Financial Times Says “Congress Is Harming America” By Attacking Ex-Im Bank
April 22, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D The most respected newspaper in Britain says that congressional critics of the Export-Import Bank are hurting America’s reputation and “chipping away at the U.S.-led global economic order.” The prestigious Financial Times, widely considered to be one of the world’s most [Read More...] -
Air Force Drone Plan Leaves Troops Without Vital Recon (From Forbes)
April 21, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D The closer you look at Air Force plans to retire the U-2 spy plane and transfer its sensors to the Global Hawk drone, the less sense the plans make. Global Hawk can never reach literal parity with U-2 because it [Read More...] -
Cyberwars: Snowden, Wikileaks Cases Fit A Long Pattern Of Government Data Thefts (From Forbes)
April 17, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D Coverage of recent government data thefts by trusted insiders have tended to focus on how new technology can be used to accomplish massive security breaches. However, cases like those of NSA contract employee Edward Snowden and Army private Bradley Manning [Read More...] -
Perils Of Empire: Five Ways Putin Hurt Russia By Grabbing Crimea (From Forbes)
April 11, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D Russia’s annexation of Crimea isn’t going to do much for its economy, security or global influence. According to the International Monetary Fund, Western sanctions and investor worries about rising tensions are making a weak economy weaker — raising the specter [Read More...] -
V-22 Tiltrotor Could Revolutionize Naval Logistics In The Pacific (From Forbes)
April 9, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D For 50 years the U.S. Navy has been relying on a turboprop aircraft called the C-2A Greyhound to perform its carrier onboard delivery mission. However, as the Navy shifts the main focus of its operations to the vast expanses of [Read More...] -
Ripples From Crimea In Space: U.S. Seeks To End Reliance On Russian Engines For Satellite Launches (From Forbes)
April 7, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D Four decades after Americans last walked on the Moon, the U.S. has fallen far behind Russia in space-launch technology. That became painfully clear when the Space Shuttle retired and U.S. astronauts had to start hitching rides to the International Space [Read More...] -
Ex-Im Bank: Heritage Action Ignores Facts, Hurts America
April 3, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D How do you know when a political movement has lost its way? One clue is it ignores facts that don’t fit its biases. Another is that it substitutes abstract ideas for common sense. A third is that it betrays the [Read More...] -
Discipline And Imagination: How United Technologies Chairman Louis Chenevert Keeps His Powerhouse Humming (From Forbes)
April 2, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D United Technologies Corporation Chairman & CEO Louis Chenevert has had an impressive run at the top of one of America’s premier manufacturing enterprises, keeping his company on the cutting edge of building and aerospace technology while delivering twice the shareholder [Read More...]