12 Companies That Will Conquer The Drone Market In 2014 and 2015. 1. The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) Boeing has had a hand in the drone market for a number of years, mostly developing for the U.S. military. They have more recently been testing the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye drone, which Boeing says can stay at 65,000 feet for up to four days without refueling. The company, led by W. James McNerney, Jr., had revenues of $81.7 billion in 2012 and looks set to smash through that when 2013 results are announced later this year. 2. General Atomics The San-Diego based company is credited with building the Predator drone, the much-feared aircraft that saw action way back during the Balkans war, where the Americans lost two. 3. Like Boeing, Lockheed is testing a drone -- the Stalker -- that can stay in the air for days at a time. 4.
Founded only in 1994, Northrop has quickly risen to become one of the top suppliers of military hardware in the world. 5. AeroVironment is the company responsible for the “Hummingbird drone” ordered by the Pentagon. 6. 7. 9. 10. 11. Does this photo tell us what Edward Snowden stands for? No matter your political stance, the image is eye-grabbing: famed whistleblower Edward Snowden stares into the distance as he clutches an American flag to his chest, as though protecting the thing he holds most sacred.
That's the picture gracing the current cover of Wired magazine and it's causing quite a stir among supporters and opponents alike of the man who pulled back the curtain on rampant NSA spying programs by fleeing the country and leaking classified documents to journalists just over a year ago. The photo was taken by world-famous photographer Platon Antoniou, whose portraits include such notable figures as Vladamir Putin and Barack Obama, and accompanies a lengthy profile of Mr. Snowden by James Bamford. In a story detailing the context of the photo shoot, Wired editor in chief Scott Dadich writes that while he and the photo staff waited nervously in their hotel room before meeting Mr.
During the photo shoot in Moscow, where Snowden currently resides in exile, Mr. Edward Snowden: The Untold Story | Threat Level. The afternoon of our third meeting, about two weeks after our first, Snowden comes to my hotel room. I have changed locations and am now staying at the Hotel National, across the street from the Kremlin and Red Square. An icon like the Metropol, much of Russia’s history passed through its front doors at one time or another. Lenin once lived in Room 107, and the ghost of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the feared chief of the old Soviet secret police who also lived here, still haunts the hallways. But rather than the Russian secret police, it’s his old employers, the CIA and the NSA, that Snowden most fears.
“If somebody’s really watching me, they’ve got a team of guys whose job is just to hack me,” he says. More than anything, Snowden fears a blunder that will destroy all the progress toward reforms for which he has sacrificed so much. Indeed, some of his fellow travelers have already committed some egregious mistakes. Nor is he optimistic that the next election will bring any meaningful reform. NSA Utah ‘Data Center’: Biggest-ever domestic spying lab? Raytheon Company: Customer Success Is Our Mission. Raytheon's shares boom. Welcome to CACI.