Topic: U.S. Navy

Keeping Data Safe -- From Ship to Shore

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Navy's Future Command Center Looks Just Like the Star Trek Enterprise

A research lab inside the U.S. Navy tasked with dreaming up the future of the armed force has been busy working on a new command center design. It's suitably high tech--and is undeniably influenced by Star Trek.READ»

Idea Ambassador

Job Titles of the Future: Kristin Shanley MilburnREAD»

Security Projects

As the third anniversary of Sept. 11 terror attacks gets close, five projects have been picked as the finalists for the Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security, the first nationwide program to mark public or private models ...READ»

This Time, Consultants Are in the Dark

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

RealTime Orlando

Imagination Implementation: May 7 - 9 in Orlando, FloridaREAD»

The Napkin Sketch

How Wal-Mart, Microsoft, and others are using the power of images to digest complex ideas.READ»

L-3's 73-Ton Hovercraft Recalls 3 Other Monster Military Machines

L-3 Communications (one of our Fast Company 50 this year) has just announced it's partnering with Textron to bid for a big future military vehicle contract. By big, we mean biiig: a 73-ton hovercraft that'll ferry troops and hardware ...READ»

Three Designers Beautifully Reinvent the Arm Cast + an Eames Leg Splint for Good Measure

Three arm-cast designs that improve upon age-old methods--and one classic that achieved world-changing influence.READ»

Comedy Is Not Pretty

Online video's greatest hitsREAD»

• Who Will Be the Godfather of Web Video?
• So Bad We Forgot to Laugh

The People Who Win The Wars

No matter how brilliantly the big brass plans wars, the outcome depends on the people who fight them.READ»

Life Happens

I was awake early this past Friday morning.  Among the many things I had to do was write this post, prepare for an afternoon of interviews for our new Research Director and follow up on a list of items for a major new project that ...READ»

Built in Sub Time

The scene is a familiar one: a sweat-drenched captain draped over a periscope scans the sea above. The scene is also obsolete: new design principles, new construction practices, and new technology make submarines faster, smarter, and better.READ»

Don't Manage Time, Manage Yourself

Overworked overachievers suffer from a 'gnawing sense of anxiety.' Here's personal-productivity guru David Allen's cure.READ»

Fast Talk: My Hardest Decision

Like a career, a company is the result of moves made and of opportunities lost. Five high-profile leaders reflect on their most difficult calls.READ»

Second Life Finds its Second Life as a Tool for Virtual Workers

Say what you like about virtual world Second Life--it just keeps spinning on. And now it's getting an official enterprise offshoot, which companies can run on their own server for virtual, corporate, uh, fun. There's even going to be ...READ»

The Agenda - Grassroots Leadership

Navy commander D. Michael Abrashoff uses a leadership model that's as progressive as any in business.READ»

NJ LASIK Surgeon’s Research on Monovision Leads to FDA Approval

Groundbreaking research on Monovision by NJ LASIK Pioneer Daniel B.Goldberg MD helped set the stage for FDA approval. Dr. Goldberg’s LASIK practice is located in Monmouth County, New Jersey.READ»

Sharper Image

The FBI is turning to a small Boston software firm for help in transforming surveillance video into high-resolution images -- and then using the pictures to help track terrorists. Call it the ultimate killer app.READ»

Updating the Agenda

An update on four agenda setters.READ»

What To Do Now

The world today is facing an unprecedented set of crises. The most recent to burst upon public awareness is that of global warming, and it is indeed a matter of urgency and of critical importance. We have, according to the ...READ»

Free Trade Isn't Fair

Mike Dolan is leading a long-shot crusade against the new economy's most widely shared belief: that global economic integration -- of countries, companies, currencies, and markets -- is both virtuous and inevitable.READ»

Fast Pack 2000

Can hope scale up? Can change scale down? Can leadership grow from the grass roots? What's the meaning of "Dotcom Mania"? Some of the best brains in the Fast Company community convened on Nantucket for the roundtable of the year.READ»

10 Things You Always Wanted To Know About Money

(and can't afford not to ask)



What are your chances of being audited? Could the economy function without bank machines? What's the one stock investment that you should have made when you were young? We answer 10 questions -- some serious, some lighthearted, all eye-opening -- about the stuff that makes the world go round.READ»

Mad Scientist

Can legendary Bell Labs--and its struggling parent, Alcatel-Lucent--be saved by a "crazy risk taker" who's betting that innovation can be captured in a mathematical formula?READ»

• Lab Results May Vary