If Principi holds any high cards, he’ll have to play’em fast. The BRAC panel’s final deliberations start Wednesday and supposedly end Friday. Their final recommendation must go to President Bush by Sept. 8, and it has to go to the printer.
A top Pentagon tech official called on industry this week to help the military develop “lighter, more efficient” directed energy weapons designed to go on aircraft and conduct special operations missions or down drones—areas where the Air Force’s directed energy efforts have been quiet as of late.