Government & Military Highlights

Learn about The Vault, one of the nation's top security cloud computing data centers used to store and manage government information

Rip Empson visits Berkeley Bionics to interview the CEO and test out a pair of bionic legs.

Video of the Navy's new Modular Unmanned Surface Craft Littoral drone.

Senior nuclear industry economist Leslie Kass discusses the state of the industry after Fukushima, efforts to boost an already-strong reputation for safety and the potential for the industry's expansion in an energy sector grappling with the potential for carbon emissions limitations.

British company BAE Systems will debut the system, known as ADAPTIV, 10 days from now at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual conference here. It is based on an interlocking set of individual tiles that are attached to the outside of virtually any military vehicle, creating a chain-mail like protective coating.

Space shuttle Discovery embarked on its final flight Tuesday, atop a Boeing 747 specially adapted by NASA to be used as a shuttle carrier. Landing at Washington's Dulles airport, it is headed to its new home at the Smithsonian Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.

Presenting 10 of the greatest fighter planes to ever see action.

The Department of Defense's research agency is spending $7 million on making the 'Avatar program' a real thing.

In a video Allen released, he described emerging social media tools and technologies as "a permanent feature of our environment" and added that "it is critically important that senior leaders in the United States Coast Guard understand what technology is doing today, how it is changing and how we must change with it."

Two minute musical revue of historic first flight of the U.S. Navy's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration aircraft, designed and built by Northrop Grumman Corporation. Flight occurred Feb. 4, 2011 at Edwards AFB, Calif.

There is a reason that London and New York remain the capitals of energy trading activity, and why the dollar continues to dominate international energy trades. Adam Sieminski explains what a new energy marketplace would need to thrive.

Weston Scott returns once more to Shot Show 2012 in Las Vegas to tell us all about weapons that do a whole lot of damage, including a gatling gun, a grenade launcher and a super powerful minigun. This is some Schwarzenegger business.

Engineers have fired the first of two industry-built electromagnetic railgun (EM Railgun) prototype launchers for the US Navy.

British scientists and engineers have begun testing an experiemental technology which they say could be the future of space travel.

Air Force taps into open innovation to stop fleeing vehicles.