Alibi: UNM’s Star Wars

Another article from the Alibi about UNM and military research: http://alibi.com/feature/18126/UNMs-Star-Wars.html V.16 No.9 | March 1 – 7, 2007 Feature Archive UNM’s Star Wars Is the university conducting military-funded research? By John Lasker Earlier this year, in a show of its space combat prowess, China obliterated one of its own satellites 500 miles above the [...]

More info on UNM and Space Militarization

More info on UNM and Space Militarization: First ReSpace/MAPLD Conference to be held in Albuquerque KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The ReSpace/Military/Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices Conference occurs Monday through Thursday (Nov 1-4, 2010) at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. This year, the MAPLD Conference, traditionally hosted by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., will [...]

Heather Wilson, Qynergy, and Paul Shirley: Military Influence in New Mexico’s 1st District

Heather Wilson, Qynergy, and Paul Shirley: Military Influence in New Mexico’s 1st District     (written a few years ago, the sources were lost but easily obtainable for those looking) Recently Heather Wilson helped pass a $391 billion Defense Appropriations bill which included $15.7 million for defense projects that will be conducted primarily in New [...]

Military Directing Scientific Research

Military Directing Scientific Research Back in June 2001 the Defense Department stated it was pouring more research dollars into high energy lasers, microwave systems, and other advanced weapons needed to fight 21st century wars quickly and decisively.  These include unmanned systems like the Predator drones.  The threats in modern times are “asymmetric. The threats are [...]

More on Lasers and Other Weapons at Kirtland

More on Lasers and Other Weapons at Kirtland Here’s another laser weapon being developed at the facilities at Kirtland.  This is the Space Laser program.  It will be a constellation of satellites mounted with laser cannons orbiting the earth.  They would be used to shoot down ballistic missiles, but likely have other uses too, like [...]

UNM: Institute for Infrastructure Surety

http://www.ece.unm.edu/ifis/about_us.html “Although we have been working on various aspects of this problem across the School of Engineering and with colleagues in Arts & Sciences, the awarding of the DTRA University Strategic Partnership Program has provided the impetus to found this Institute.” It looks at three areas:  Complexity Theory/Networks, Communication and Control, and Physical Threats.  This [...]

UNM Gets Grant of Over $50 Million From Army in 2003

UNM Gets Grant of Over $50 Million From Army in 2003 Back in 2003 UNM was awarded a grant from the US Army.  It was given to UNM along with New Mexico State University, with UNM being the project leader.  This shows how the universities and military are more and more connected. It was part [...]

Kirtland and Directed Energy Weapons

Kirtland and Directed Energy Weapons   The main military base in Albuquerque is Kirtland Air Force Base.  It is located next to the Albuquerque International Airport.  It hosts the Air Force Research Laboratory.  It was previously Phillips Laboratory until 1997 when it was merged into the Air Force Research Laboratory as the Space Vehicles and [...]

A Look at University of New Mexico and Corporatization

A Look at University of New Mexico and Corporatization Here we will focus on UNM, the University of New Mexico, located in Albuquerque.  Along with that, Albuquerque is also home to Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia National Laboratories.  Los Alamos National Laboratories is also a couple hours away. Albuquerque and the “Easy, Bureaucratic Life” [...]