The Senate has confirmed retired Lt. Gen. James Clapper to serve as the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, a post vacated by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s man Stephen Cambone. Clapper, nominated by President Bush in January, had served for five years as head of the National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency, before being forced out by Rumsfeld.
U.S. Northern Command and multiple research organizations just wrapped up a joint, three-year experiment to test new radar technology that could enable the Northern Warning System to detect incoming threats at longer ranges across Alaska and northern Canada.