Computers and Locusts

As part of his tour of the Advanced Technology Warfare Development Center he visits the biological laboratory.

Here they are trying to develop larger animals that can serve as food, and materials, particularly in times of shortage or blockade.  Here there are testing using locusts intending not to use locusts for food, but rather as a test bed for cattle, pigs, and chickens.  The intention is to transfer the technology to develop giant domestic animals.

The locust life cycle is very fast so that multiple generations can be produced in a short period of time.  The massive computer power is used to predict results and those growth results are compared to the actual locust.

Mr. Vice President is very satisfied with the work but wonders about the security.

The scientists wear their white uniforms and the military guards wear their military uniforms.  Mr. Vice President is reassured that there are several hundred armed troops on the facility and at least 100 on duty 24/7 in case of emergency.
 

Computer

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/blogs/aerospace-defense-blog/2013/01/dempsey-worries-about-cyberattack-dod-makes-plans-to-hire-additional-cybersecurity-workers.html?cmpid=EnlMAEJanuary302013

 

The Federal government is hardening their infrastructure to avoid cyber-attacks.  Who does your information technology work at your agency?  Is it done by contract workers?  Is it done by city workers? 

 

Other countries, independent groups and even gangs have used cyber-attacks against police and other government agencies.  If your whole system were to crash, could you still dispatch calls and receive phone calls from citizens?  If your system is hacked, can your personal information be made public?  How about your city information?  Your agency payroll system has all your data on it, where you live, how much you make, your social security number, how about identity theft of all your officers names as a way to get back against your agency.

 

Anyone who works on your computer and phone system should be subject to a background check.  Your passwords and log in information should be be protected and changed often.  Officers who leave the agency should be removed from the system before they are actually terminated.  Some computers should not be on any system, they should be stand alone so that they can't be hacked.  Computer security, it's the police work of the 21st Century; that's what the SGT Says.

This is a post from my SGT Says blog.  Think about how computers effect police, and the military.  Think about wargames and how cyber attacks can make a difference when you set up a scenario.  You are playing the Communist Chinese vs Japan in 2015 and the Chinese manage to put a virus in the Japanese computers and kill their air force for a certain number of turns.

Computer

This arm is part of my old computer. It looks like pretty good science stuff with my 60mm figures.

This device can be part of a robot assembly factory.

It could be for making really big things.

Industrial machinery is important in modern warfare.

Mechanical devices are important and by using an old computer, I was able to add a few to the collection.

Computer

My old computer was replaced and does not work anymore so I took it apart.

Some pretty cool stuff inside.

It makes a good computer set up for the 60mm soldiers.

Back in the old days a computer might take up a whole room.

A few years before that they were even bigger.