Staying Alive

摘要

Much of official Washington has a fetish about defense technology. The defense cognoscente here live and breathe for the "the next big thing," such as a silver bullet innovation to defeat the improvised explosive devices along the roadsides of Iraq (there isn't one), or the next generation of unmanned craft that will take the military's use of robotics to a higher level. But the public spotlight rarely shines into the corners of the military labs where fascinating work is under way to save the lives of the men and women in uniform who serve the nation in perilous environments.