Science, technology highlighted at hearing

Science, technology highlighted at hearing

(EXCERPT) by Tech. Sgt. Carl Norman Air Force Materiel Command Public
Affairs

7/23/2003 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Air Force
leaders showcased new technologies to members of the House Armed
Services Committee at the Air Force Museum here July 19. The
technologies would continue to be funded by $2.2 billion in fiscal
2004.

Gen. Lester Lyles, the Air Force Materiel Command commander, and Maj.
Gen. Paul Nielsen, the Air Force Research Laboratory commander, spoke
to more than a dozen congressional delegates. The officers testified
during a field hearing of the subcommittee on tactical air and land
forces.

The congressmen were shown the battlefield air-operations kit designed
to lighten backpacks for combat controllers, panoramic night-vision
goggles and active-denial technology. The active-denial technology is
designed to control large crowds via millimeter-wave energy that
causes intense heat without causing injury.

Nielsen told the committee that technology allowed the Air Force to
transition t...

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