Come for the contractors, stay for the A/V club. This was quite the eye-catching week for the Danger Room.
It's not that we didn't supply you with our usual blend of the advanced, the bizarre and the unsettling in the security sphere. Marines balking at a replacement truck for the Humvee; Darpa working on ways to tighten up the Pentagon surveillance net; and contractors, contractors, contractors. Plus cellphone-based plans for promoting justice in Afghanistan and a huge setback for the U.S.'s tenuous alliance with Pakistan. But we also couldn't help being flashy.
What, you missed Katie's amazing photo gallery of real-life cyborgs? Or the action footage of a guy in a wingsuit flying through the mountains? How about the – video we posted of robots protecting Energy Department radioactive-waste sites? Even this contractor post came filled with photos and videos. Our moms always said we were artistic.
And it'll just get more picturesque on Monday. We'll be back at it after the weekend, because national-security futurism doesn't take a Columbus-Day holiday (and because the Vikings discovered America). Till then, we're out like Jim Jones.
