BRUSSELS, Feb. 27, 2014 - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met here yesterday with defense ministers from Spain, Italy and Denmark on the sidelines of the two-day NATO defense ministers conference, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said. Today, on the final day of the meeting, the ministers will discuss defense capacity building, cyber defense and maritime … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2014
ARL Research Explores Virtual Humans Research at the Institute for Creative Technologies
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 27, 2014) - At the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, researchers specializing in the art and science of creating an immersive experience work with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to advance interactive simulation-based solutions for training Soldiers, teaching students, treating patients and more. In 1999, the Army and … [Read more...]
Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 Concludes
CHANTHABURI, Thailand, Feb 27, 2014 - Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 concluded Feb. 21 following a multilateral combined arms live-fire exercise at Royal Thai Navy Tactical Training Center Ban Chan Krem, Kingdom of Thailand. Cobra Gold is the largest multinational and multiservice exercise in Southeast Asia, which takes places annually throughout the Kingdom of Thailand. This … [Read more...]
Social Media: Unwanted Eyes May Be Watching Airmen and their Families
EILSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska, Feb. 27, 2014 (AFNS) - Social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr can provide an instantaneous and highly entertaining feedback stream of your daily activities to friends and family. The latest videos of dogs running with fireworks in their mouths, kittens tumbling in the snow or Internet memes of celebrity humiliations populate … [Read more...]
For NHHC Curator Preserving and Protecting Navy History is Personal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2014 (NNS) - Family vacations often have a profound and lasting effect on children. For some, it's an Instagram or Facebook album of selfies taken at landmark sites with the occasional snarky comment about being dragged to "old" places. For Frank V. Thompson, those family vacations, which predate both Instagram and Facebook, would be the seed that would … [Read more...]