Military / Defense

Defense Support of Civil Authorities. Handbook No. 1.04, 15 August 2004

Background Defense Support to Civil Authorities: WMD/E Consequence Management is a supplemental handbook that presents an appreciation of U.S. military…

March 19, 2020

CRADA for Domestic Technology Transfer Between U.S. Army RDECOM and Lockheed Martin, 2018

Background According to the agreement, these are the objectives: PARTNER [Lockheed Martin] Benefit: The potential benefit to PARTNER includes the…

February 27, 2020

Aircraft Accident Report – Uncontrolled Descent and Collision With Terrain, USAir Flight 427, Boeing 737-300, N513AU, Near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1994

Background This report explains the accident involving USAir flight 427, a Boeing 737-300, which entered an uncontrolled descent and impacted…

February 21, 2020

Report 98-036, Intergovernmental Personnel Act Employees in the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs), December 11, 1997

Background According to the introduction of the audit: "We performed the audit in response to allegations made to the Defense…

February 14, 2020

Recovering from a Nuclear Incident – Lessons Learned from Chernobyl

Background This series of 12 video segments examines some of the lessons learned from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.…

February 12, 2020

The Lunex Project, Air Force Lunar Landing Project, 1958-1961

Background The Lunex Project was a US Air Force 1958 plan for a crewed lunar landing prior to the Apollo…

January 31, 2020

USS Liberty Attack, June 8, 1967

Background The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli…

January 27, 2020

Operation Iraqi Freedom, DOD Official Photograph Collection, January 2004 – July 2004

Background The imagery here was published by the Department of Defense on CD-ROM back in 2004 by the Defense Visual…

January 23, 2020

Retrograde of Sensitive Equipment and Materiel, Afghanistan, Army Audit Report, A-2015-0007-IEX, 6 November 2014

Background This audit was internally generated and endorsed by the Deputy Commanding General for Support, U.S. Forces–Afghanistan. The audit focused…

January 23, 2020

Insectothopter, CIA’s UAV from the 1970s

Background The Insectothopter was a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle developed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's research and development…

January 14, 2020