That's because they're working on the Bleex2.

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2384

http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/bleex.htm

http://www.gizmag.com/go/2683/

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Baier
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The Century Ahead
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:15:44 -0600, Denys Beauchemin 
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> >I didn't even bother going there.
> >
> >Denys
> 
> Denys,
> 
> then why does this adminstration let this happen?
> 
> Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor (January 7, 
> 2006) A secret 
> Defense Department study reveals that more extensive armor, of a kind 
> available since 2003, could have saved the lives of some 80 
> percent of the 
> marines killed by upper body wounds in Iraq between 2003 and 
> 2005. That 
> amounts to scores of needlessly lost lives - hundreds if Army deaths 
> attributable to inadequate armor are counted as well. The 
> ceramic armor 
> plates in question cost about $260 a set. 
> 
> 2 yrs into this well-planned war, 200 billion $ later.
> Rumfeld is completely in-competent. As he asked W  several 
> times to re-sign 
> and he wasn't ==> W is also completely incompetent and both 
> should be held 
> accountable for the death of hundreds of American soldiers.
> 
> 
> 
> Marines Without Armor 
> Published: January 8, 2006
> American marines are a proud, tough bunch. They expect to be 
> sent into the 
> most dangerous battles and expect enemy fighters to come at them with 
> everything they have. But they also expect, and have every 
> right to expect, 
> the Pentagon to provide them with the most effective armor 
> available to 
> maximize their chances of staying alive and in one piece. An 
> investigative 
> article in Saturday's Times by our colleague Michael Moss 
> makes painfully 
> clear that the Pentagon has let these brave warriors down.
> 
> Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor (January 7, 
> 2006) A secret 
> Defense Department study reveals that more extensive armor, of a kind 
> available since 2003, could have saved the lives of some 80 
> percent of the 
> marines killed by upper body wounds in Iraq between 2003 and 
> 2005. That 
> amounts to scores of needlessly lost lives - hundreds if Army deaths 
> attributable to inadequate armor are counted as well. The 
> ceramic armor 
> plates in question cost about $260 a set. 
> 
> Marines in the field have been clamoring for additional body 
> armor (and 
> vehicle armor) almost since the Iraq war began. Military officials 
> initially turned them down because of concerns that the added 
> weight might 
> constrict movement. Once the study results came in last 
> summer, Marine 
> Corps leaders belatedly reversed themselves and started 
> speeding armor to 
> the troops. 
> 
> Still, as of last month, less than 10 percent of the 28,000 
> sets of armor 
> plates on order had actually reached the Marines in Iraq. 
> Similar delays 
> have plagued deliveries of improved vehicle armor. And the 
> much larger Army 
> contingent in Iraq has faced even more extensive delays.
> 
> The Pentagon buys some truly wondrous space-age weaponry with 
> its half- trillion-dollar annual budgets. If the cold war 
> ever resumes, the American 
> military will certainly be prepared. Meantime, surely enough 
> spare change 
> can be found in that vast budget to accelerate deliveries of 
> lifesaving 
> armor to the marines and soldiers coming under fire today, 
> and every day, 
> in Iraq.
> 
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