This brief excerpt from the Kiplinger Letter, Aug, 14, 2009 ----------
DEFENSE: Plenty of business opportunities as the military's needs change. Much of the new defense technology will have commercial applications as well. Data mining. Ever more sophisticated software to collect, analize and prioritize data from drones, satellites, cell phones, radar, Internet posting, etc. Modus Operandi of Melbourne, Fla., is one firm working with the military. Optics. Hundreds of tiny lenses that fit on a business-card-size surface... stuck on a soldier's helmet or the wing of a drone to record high quality video. Southern Methodist University's engineering department is heading up the project. Durable blimps. Surveillance aircraft, AS BIG AS FOOTBALL FIELDS, [caps mine] that stay aloft for months… eventually, for years. Working with the Defense Dept...Lookheed Martin. ---------- Regarding those "durable blimps" I think we may be about to see the unveiling of some of those mysterious black triangles the size of football fields witnessed by so many in the nighttime skies over the last decade or so. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
