Editor's Perspective

 

While a number of other media companies are contracting or at best treading water, KMI Media Group is growing and expanding. Our new offices are larger and newer than our current facility, and we have accounted for not only our current expansion but have built growth into the new floor plan. While others are downsizing, KMI is hiring in virtually every department.

Besides this move, the launching of our eighth title, Military Space and Missile Forum, is just another marker of our growth. The only magazine dedicated to the military aspects of the space and missile community, MSMF is a market leader in connecting the military leadership with the defense community and suppliers.

As we look forward to 2009, we will kick off the new year with a great interview with Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, commander of Special Operations Command Central-CENTCOM. On top of that will be a special section focusing on the Joint Improved Explosive Device Defeat Organization including an exclusive interview with Major General Thomas Metz, commander of JIEDDO. No one needs to be told about the threat that IEDs pose and how they are being used by an adaptive enemy determined to stay ahead of the defeat curve. Through a thorough analysis of the threats and the application of the best-suited technologies to match each threat, JIEDDO has been able to direct a balanced campaign of threat reduction, protection and aggressive reaction. JIEDDO is an agency that has a tremendous impact on the battlefield and a long list of successes—many of which have to go unreported, but their matching of issues with solutions is unparalleled.

As always, if you have any questions or comments about what you see in this issue of SOTECH or what we have planned for 2009, please feel free to contact me in our new digs!

Best wishes.

Jeffrey D. McKaughan
301.670.5700