(Autoweek) In the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, navigation technology in the Mercedes-Benz ML 350 they reportedly stole probably helped police find the Tsarnaev brothers when they carjacked a 26-year-old businessman's car.
In January, controversy erupted in Canada when it was revealed Canadian special forces operators were identifying IS targets on the ground with Kurdish forces, using laser technology that coordinated with bombers in the sky.
Further down would be Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who struck out at technology, and Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber who saw himself as the first hero of the second American revolution.
Saving aircraft from detection became a special concern, and by the 1980s the United States had developed models of stealth technology, including a prototype stealth bomber.
Today, the technology that allows a stealth bomber to evade enemy radar, or helps a Navy pilot handle an extra g or two, hasn't done much to improve the lot of civilians en route to LAX.
Human agency in its prosecution is obscured or mediated, via human collectives, abstract things and processes, by giving agency to technology (e.g. 'American bombers attacked military targets').
Ksander admitted his admiration for the aerospace engineers who build military technology: "Designing and building a B2 bomber, now that's a project!" A project must have a tangible outcome and a definite timeline.
If he were acquiring weapons, he could be deterred from using them himself, but he might be able to transfer lethal technologies to undeterrable suicide bombers.
For instance, due to high integration of the technologies, law enforcement agencies were able to detect the bomber behind the Boston marathon bombing in four days.
Northrop Grumman is active in radar, communications, computer services and training, aircraft, nuclear submarines and carriers, command and control systems, missiles, space technology, amphibious assault ships, tankers and the B-2 Stealth bomber.
With his new work, the artist has set out to connect fashion and technology by working GPS computer boards and LED lights into wearable bomber jackets.
