Rapid Fire 2010-11-23: European Missile Defense

• The full text of NATO’s 2010 Lisbon declaration, which lays out its new strategic concept, as well as approving the European missile defense shield (s. 36-38).

• Can’t we all just get along?: US defense budget battle could be most contentious in decades, says Peter Juul with the Center for American Progress. Get used to it.

• START stopped?

DTIC IACs: On-call Technical Expertise for the US Military

$18M to Alion for Special Ops mobile repair systems under WSTIAC contract. (Nov 22/10)

The US Department of Defense’s Information Analysis Centers (IACs) are research and analysis organizations operated by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Chartered by the DoD to help researchers, engineers, scientists and program managers, IACS offer specialized research staff to DoD agencies and military services.

The mission of the IACs is 2 two-fold: (1) IACs provide access to worldwide scientific and technical information to improve the productivity of personnel in the defense science and technology communities. The IACs accomplish this mission by collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, and disseminating relevant information in clearly-defined and structured subject areas; (2) IACs serve their respective fields by providing technical services and solutions…

• List of IACs
  
• CBRNIAC
  
• IATAC
  
• MSIAC
  
• RIAC
  
• SNIM
  
• SURVIAC
  
• WSTIAC