Comments on: Few Companies, People To Sustain ABL Technology http://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/07/01/few-companies-people-to-sustain-abl-technology/ Online Defense and Acquisition Journal Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:12:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MrSatyrehttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/07/01/few-companies-people-to-sustain-abl-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-270 MrSatyre Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:11:03 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=157#comment-270 epi, perhaps instead of ranting, you should provide to the rest of us your qualifications for making those statements, and explain the supporting facts as you believe them to be. As is, your comments are easily disregarded as just another know-it-all armchair anaylst. epi, perhaps instead of ranting, you should provide to the rest of us your qualifications for making those statements, and explain the supporting facts as you believe them to be. As is, your comments are easily disregarded as just another know-it-all armchair anaylst.

]]> By: epihttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/07/01/few-companies-people-to-sustain-abl-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-246 epi Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:52:17 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=157#comment-246 SDI had a very successful program, albeit done by the Germans (Messerschmidt now EADS) and it led to the only IR database we have in Colorado Springs. COL Peyton was the contact back then as well as General Abrams, and the program was called IBIS. The infrared background signature Survey. Flew on the shuttle for plume detection experiments. It was so successful that a poster was made, "Back when things worked." It is effectively what SBIRS low failed at.ABL is a joke and everyone knows it. The atmosphere is such that a beam is not going through with lethality such as they project, and moreover their projections about a basketball sized beam at "range" is not possible even in a vacuum. The AF tried to block any and all real scientists, thus the "shortage", unless of course you said what you are told! SDI had a very successful program, albeit done by the Germans (Messerschmidt now EADS) and it led to the only IR database we have in Colorado Springs. COL Peyton was the contact back then as well as General Abrams, and the program was called IBIS. The infrared background signature Survey. Flew on the shuttle for plume detection experiments. It was so successful that a poster was made, “Back when things worked.” It is effectively what SBIRS low failed at.

ABL is a joke and everyone knows it. The atmosphere is such that a beam is not going through with lethality such as they project, and moreover their projections about a basketball sized beam at “range” is not possible even in a vacuum. The AF tried to block any and all real scientists, thus the “shortage”, unless of course you said what you are told!

]]> By: what are we buying?http://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/07/01/few-companies-people-to-sustain-abl-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-185 what are we buying? Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:05:05 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=157#comment-185 How come we aren't sharing this information with our civilians???? Shouldn't this kind of information be shared so it can be further developed. Personally, I don't TRUST the MILiltary anymore. I love my faith in the Marine Corps. SOrrry. But you gotta do what you gotta do. If no one is going to further develop our weapons. I'll do it in my Backyard and see how they like them apples. PEACE. "Later in his letter to General Porter, he suggested an appointmen to 'some little agency among the ("SAVAGE INDIANS")[WHERE i} could have the benefit of the finest school for an Historical painter now to be found in the world, where, amoung the naked savage {1} could select and study from the finest models in Nature, unmasked and moving in all their grace and beauty. ------------Steven Conn.........Semper Fidelis........ Sigma Nu. How come we aren’t sharing this information with our civilians???? Shouldn’t this kind of information be shared so it can be further developed. Personally, I don’t TRUST the MILiltary anymore. I love my faith in the Marine Corps. SOrrry. But you gotta do what you gotta do. If no one is going to further develop our weapons. I’ll do it in my Backyard and see how they like them apples.
PEACE. “Later in his letter to General Porter, he suggested an appointmen to ‘some little agency among the (“SAVAGE INDIANS”)[WHERE i} could have the benefit of the finest school for an Historical painter now to be found in the world, where, amoung the naked savage {1} could select and study from the finest models in Nature, unmasked and moving in all their grace and beauty.
————Steven Conn.….….

Semper Fidelis.….…
Sigma Nu.

]]> By: T. Riderhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/07/01/few-companies-people-to-sustain-abl-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-151 T. Rider Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:54:17 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=157#comment-151 It takes much longer for civilian applications to appear for highly technical technology, due to cost and lack of additional trained dpersonnel. But it certainly does eventually. The addition of the processes and technics to America's knowledge data base where it is readlly available for small companies and individuals to examine it, will expodite the use of it for new civilian products. It takes much longer for civilian applications to appear for highly technical technology, due to cost and lack of additional trained dpersonnel. But it certainly does eventually. The addition of the processes and technics to America’s knowledge data base where it is readlly available for small companies and individuals to examine it, will expodite the use of it for new civilian products.

]]> By: frankhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/07/01/few-companies-people-to-sustain-abl-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-150 frank Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:33:23 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=157#comment-150 Its the only part of SDI that has any chance of working. At least on the AF side. The only other service with any sort of decent workable SDI system is the Army and they really stay under the RADAR and do some good basic research. I was in on the early SDI work back when you had the X Ray LASERs and all the old Buck Rogers stuff that's fallen by the wayside.But, DOD deserves this. It allowed a lot of companies to be bought up in the late 80s and early 90s and consolidate. All the chickens that that dumb shit Cheney let loose when he was SecDef have come to roost. He has done as much damage to the US military as have McNamara and Rumsfeld.You have incompetent contractors getting bids, and then not being able to do the work. Or in some cases, you have really great AF officers doing work then to save money they turn it over to the enlisted troops. You know, a Bachelor's or a Master's in a field is NOT equivalent to the typical AF training cycle.You would not believe the classified programs that were canned during the 'Peace Dividend' (remember that??). Its all coming back to bite us, we no longer have capabilities we used to have. But, hey KBR and all the rest are rolling in the bucks, and the troops live in 3rd world barracks. And so it goes..... Its the only part of SDI that has any chance of working. At least on the AF side. The only other service with any sort of decent workable SDI system is the Army and they really stay under the RADAR and do some good basic research. I was in on the early SDI work back when you had the X Ray LASERs and all the old Buck Rogers stuff that’s fallen by the wayside.

But, DOD deserves this. It allowed a lot of companies to be bought up in the late 80s and early 90s and consolidate. All the chickens that that dumb shit Cheney let loose when he was SecDef have come to roost. He has done as much damage to the US military as have McNamara and Rumsfeld.

You have incompetent contractors getting bids, and then not being able to do the work. Or in some cases, you have really great AF officers doing work then to save money they turn it over to the enlisted troops. You know, a Bachelor’s or a Master’s in a field is NOT equivalent to the typical AF training cycle.

You would not believe the classified programs that were canned during the ‘Peace Dividend’ (remember that??). Its all coming back to bite us, we no longer have capabilities we used to have. But, hey KBR and all the rest are rolling in the bucks, and the troops live in 3rd world barracks. And so it goes.….

]]> By: ConcernedTaxpayerhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2008/07/01/few-companies-people-to-sustain-abl-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-126 ConcernedTaxpayer Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:39:33 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=157#comment-126 Why is DoD still spending money on ABL? The FY10 MDA budget is likely to be flat making science experiments unsustainable. Maybe O'Reilly will do the right thing. Why is DoD still spending money on ABL? The FY10 MDA budget is likely to be flat making science experiments unsustainable. Maybe O’Reilly will do the right thing.

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