Articles by Samantha Tanner

After an overwhelming response in 2011, Defence IQ is proud to announce the Blogging Awards 2012 which recognises and rewards the hard work defence and military bloggers put in to ensure that information reaches the masses. To see the results from the Blogging Awards 2011, click here . New for 2012! This year we will be making the Awards bigger and bolder in an attempt to highlight the best...Full Article »

Defence IQ speaks to Captain Edward Lundquist to find out about how modularisation affects the design and through life of surface combatants. Defence IQ          Captain Edward Lundquist, principal science writer at MCR Federal LLC, thank you for joining me today. Captain Edward Lundquist            Thank...Full Article »

Defence IQ took two minutes out with Flt Lt Conrad Allen at the Joint Personnel Recovery conference last year to gain a clearer insight into why SERE (Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract) training in urban environments is important and also how to handle the environment troops can find themselves in. Why is it essential that training in urban SERE takes place? Previously military doctrine has always...Full Article »

Defence IQ sat down with Michael Golombek, Material and Maintenance Section Leader of NATO Helicopter Management Agency at Military Aviation Repair and Maintenance in October to find out about some of the key areas of helicopter logistics. What is your primary area of interest? How to improve support in defense-related aerospace programs. For me the fact that support is the major contributor to...Full Article »

Advancements in Directed Energy Systems has never moved beyond the theory of the laboratory in recent years, however, 2011 saw progression in these technologies and 2012 will no doubt see the first use of directed energy within the battlefield. This sees an important move for directed energy as it is now being prepared for the battlefield. Primarily led by the U.S., this overview of the Directed...Full Article »

Ahead of the forecast withdrawal of forces in 2014 NATO, nations are digesting the lessons from the conflict in Afghanistan and beginning to integrate them into the force development strategies of the future. Some may even find their way into the Afghan National Army as they prepare to take on full responsibility for Afghanistan’s internal security. By examining those lessons learned,...Full Article »

Lt Col Skip Stoltz is Commander of the US Air Force's 46th Test Squadron and, in this interview, he speaks with Defence IQ's Samantha Tanner about how warfighting elements must rely on testing to establish resiliency in many C4ISR elements.   Defence IQ:  You’re listening to the Defence IQ podcast on behalf of the Network Centric Warfare event taking place in Brussels in...Full Article »

Defence IQ: I am Samantha Tanner and with me today I am joined by Arnie Victor Director for Strategy and Business Development at Raytheon . Hello, Arnie thank you for joining us today. Arnie Victor: Thanks for asking us. DIQ: Just to start us off, how do you see the radar market developing in terms of current situation of broadly aging technologies often first conceived in the 70s and the broad...Full Article »

There is no denying that military operations have come under more scrutiny from the press and general public over the last couple of decades. The technological revolution and the advancement of weapons has coincided with the development of television and the internet making it more easy to gather information and harder for armed forces to protect themselves against a media backlash.   Gulf...Full Article »

The US Army is currently undergoing a final series of tests in order to allow its soldiers to use interoperable mobile apps on Android devices in forward operations.   The software, which is currently being tested through the 82nd Airborne Division on a prototype device, is currently known as the Joint Battle Command-Platform, or JBC-P Handheld and will allow troops to view information at...Full Article »

Fallout from the epic earthquake and resultant tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March is expected to have produced £146 billion in damage, according to World Bank figures. Much of this damage is concentrated in Fukushima 's second nuclear power plant, an area that has been dangerously volatile due to a failure to safely contain radioactive material. At one point, experts were...Full Article »