Technology Mashup

IBM and Finnish Defense Forces Enlist SOA to Deliver the Future of Integrated Command and Control - IBM today announced that it will team with the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) to develop a new industry framework for the defense and security industries which will help military and security organizations better integrate their command, control, communications and computing (C4) systems across different service branches.

Shooting for Realism: How Accurate are Video-Game Weapons? - With a spate of military shooter titles hitting the market, PM's resident geek gets the inside story on gaming's next-gen guns from top developers, who have to balance coolness with correctness for every M-16 they recreate.

Homeland Adds On-the-Go Radioactive Hunter to High-Tech Garage - This modified Chevy Suburban XL, delivered by Raytheon last month, claims to be the first of its kind: a highly-sensitive, self-contained system that uses the same spectroscopic analysis technology that's found in advanced cargo inspection scanners.