It must be great being the Army and being able to say, "Hey, wireless charging sounds cool, let's pour a couple million into it and see if we can up the range to, let's say, fifty feet! Okay? AWESOME!"

The University of Michigan had a game to play in five minutes, but no one could find a football to get things going. What ever could they do? Well, a quick call on the 101st Airborne hotline (sitting on the university president's desk, of course) had Sergeant Adam Sniffen parachute a ball in to the roar of the crowd.

Just outside Los Angeles there's an office park that hosts one of the Department of Defense's secrets — the IED Battle Drill. The creation of a company called RL Leaders, whose boss, Richard Lindheim was once a big cheese in...

We're never going to get to The Future at this rate. The Department of Defense is cutting two big sci-fi-ish projects in an effort to funnel its resources toward more practical research. Namely, both the Airborne Laser and the Multiple...