Military / Defense

General Mills and Biological Weapons

Background The breakfast cereal manufacturer General Mills was the nation's foremost developer of Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction in the early…

March 31, 2020

DOD Directive S-3321.1 – Overt Psychological Operations Conducted by the Military Services in Peacetime and in Contingencies Short of Declared War

Background This directive establishes policy, provides procedures and assigns responsibilities for the planning, development, programming, direction, execution, and control of…

March 25, 2020

Department of Defense Tests Hypersonic Glide Body, March 19, 2020

PENTAGON, Virginia (NNS) -- The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from…

March 20, 2020

The Pandemic Pendulum: A Critical Analysis of Federal and State Preparedness for a Pandemic Event, by John R. Foley, March 2009 Master’s Thesis

Background This paper explores pandemic planning efforts across federal and state jurisdictions and how the absence of collaboration could have…

March 19, 2020

Defense Support of Civil Authorities. Handbook No. 1.04, 15 August 2004

Background Defense Support to Civil Authorities: WMD/E Consequence Management is a supplemental handbook that presents an appreciation of U.S. military…

March 19, 2020

CRADA for Domestic Technology Transfer Between U.S. Army RDECOM and Lockheed Martin, 2018

Background According to the agreement, these are the objectives: PARTNER [Lockheed Martin] Benefit: The potential benefit to PARTNER includes the…

February 27, 2020

Aircraft Accident Report – Uncontrolled Descent and Collision With Terrain, USAir Flight 427, Boeing 737-300, N513AU, Near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1994

Background This report explains the accident involving USAir flight 427, a Boeing 737-300, which entered an uncontrolled descent and impacted…

February 21, 2020

Report 98-036, Intergovernmental Personnel Act Employees in the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs), December 11, 1997

Background According to the introduction of the audit: "We performed the audit in response to allegations made to the Defense…

February 14, 2020

Recovering from a Nuclear Incident – Lessons Learned from Chernobyl

Background This series of 12 video segments examines some of the lessons learned from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.…

February 12, 2020

The Lunex Project, Air Force Lunar Landing Project, 1958-1961

Background The Lunex Project was a US Air Force 1958 plan for a crewed lunar landing prior to the Apollo…

January 31, 2020