Mobile technology keeps the Military up at Night...

[Raithe]

For the amusement value...

 

Rapidly evolving low-cost mobile technology keeps military up at night

 

As the Darpa Deputy Director gives various testimony on "Emerging Threats" , the need to look at the current pace of developing smart phones and the like comes to the forefront..

 

"Computing, imaging and communications capabilities that, as recently as 15 years ago, were the exclusive domain of military systems, are now in the hands of hundreds of millions of people around the world," explained Gabriel. And the pace at which these systems, formerly the purview of a few peer adversaries, are being developed is increasing. "From a new system every 10 years decades ago," Gabriel stated, "to one every 1.5 years today."

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"We have not enjoyed spectrum dominance since about 1997. Up until then, our electronic warfare systems could both detect and respond effectively to electronic warfare threats directed at us. In the last 15 or so years, however, that has ceased to be true. In both waveform complexity and carrier frequency, adversaries have moved to operating regimes currently beyond the capabilities of our systems,"

 

as microelectronic devices continue to shrink in size, they are, perhaps counter intuitively, also improving in performance. For example, smaller microelectronic devices are able to switch faster and, thus, operate at higher frequencies. This means that specialized microelectronic devices produced for DoD are now matched or nearly matched in performance to standard silicon-based microelectronics commercially available from multiple, global sources, he said.

 

Heh, it's growing into a dangerous world out there. Wait.. it's always been a dangerous world.

[Gorgon]

Weyland Utani is actually a real company, or was. Simply by coincidence. Although if you do a web search for it now you would never find it for Alien references.

Edited March 1, 2012 by Gorgon