Peddling Military Innovations and Applications for National Defense

Not too long ago, I was discussing selling defense innovations to
the military with a young Harvard MBA kid, who'd hooked up with a
couple of post-graduate MIT engineer PhDs attempting to apply their
knowledge in the real world. The place I do business, a place where it
really counts. Interestingly enough, they came up with a kite-like
wind turbine generator. I know, as if no one else had ever thought of
this - the naivety of youth indeed.However, they also wanted to have a
system that the military might use when helping in humanitarian
efforts, you know like; the floods in Pakistan, Earthquake in Haiti,
Volcanoes in Indonesia, or the Tsunami in Sumatra. Let's face it when
all heck breaks loose our military comes to the rescue, it always has,
we are just that type of a great nations.Perhaps, it's that spark
which captures the minds of the young thinkers using their minds to
solve problems and help people. For some reason they don't understand
how important weapon systems are in protecting our great nation. One
of the "kids" working in this little startup had tried to sell the
idea to the US Military, specifically the US Navy. He said they were
interested in the idea for humanitarian uses.Again, quite na�ve, and I
suppose one of the procurement categories is indeed humanitarian
equipment, supplies, and such - yes, I can see that, of course it
matters which division you are talking too in the US Navy - it's huge.
And I suppose their device could be built and launched by ship - flies
into position - people on the ground grad the cable which is dropped
from the sky like an arresting hook or anchor [the cable hook is my
idea].If these kids can prove concept, then it might be a perfect
design and brilliant concept for that. It seems various configurations
of this device have lots of applications - not sure these kids will be
able to pull it off, but it could be viable once they get rid of all
the mistakes in engineering they've made in their prototype - as I
remain unconvinced.Emergency response is wonderful for a potential
application - but make no mistake, the US Navy needs it for military
operations also (maybe they just don't know it yet), missions which go
in and take down the enemy! In fact, I told the kid; "I hope you
aren't getting soft on me there, don't get too into peace-nic
territory, we need a strong military or all this goes away."You see, I
worry about those idealistic kids and folks out there in Boston, the
real world isn't as it's been portrayed to them by their
liberal-socialist skewed education - we MUST stay strong, vigilant,
and have all the resources to fight and kill the enemy if and when
it's needed. "Kill the Enemy!" and "Save the Natives" -
okay?Meanwhile, yes, the US Navy does great things around the world
after natural disasters, and they need this too obviously. Strength an
Honor! I surely hope, if you think you will be selling to the US
Military that you have a little better sense of reality. Please think
on it.