I was eating dinner a few weeks back with a soldier that just returned from Iraq. He was telling me about a UAV that they carried in a suitcase and how well it worked in an urban environment. They could carry the lightweight unit to the top of a building and reconnoiter the entire area looking for hostiles or other potential troubles. This UAV could be fitted with either a day or a night vision camera so illumination wasn’t an issue.
It sounded so interesting I thought I would research the UAV and blog about it. He was speaking of the Bluebird MicroB. NOTE: I am NOT affiliated with nor connected in any way with Bluebird. I found it fasinating how technology...
Posted by AW-Systems on September 1st, 2010 :: Filed under
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American Warehouse Systems was recently asked to help solve an access problem for the Air National Guard 934th Airlift Wing in Minneapolis MN. The 934th Airlift Wing, also known as the “Flying Vikings,” is Minnesota’s only Air Force Reserve unit. It is a combat-ready Air Force Reserve Command flying unit, which serves as the Department of Defense’s host for Army, Navy, Marine and Air National Guard units at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Air Reserve Station, MN.
The aircraft maintenance...
Posted by AW-Systems on August 25th, 2010 :: Filed under
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American Warehouse Systems was asked to design and implement a large mezzanine system for the Defense Logistic Agency in one of their California facilities. DLA used to store materials in pallets on standard selective rack in the project area and they wanted to turn it over to a manual cart picking operation. The system included a 40,000 sq. ft. mezzanine, over 4000 steel shelving units, Hytrol conveyor,...
Posted by AW-Systems on August 18th, 2010 :: Filed under
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When the US Embassy Praia in Cape Verde were planning to build a new warehouse distribution center they contacted American Warehouse Systems.
Cape Verde is an island country off the west coast of Africa and is a little hard to get to for most American material handling systems integrators. The client initially had great concern regarding the project because of their remote location and the need to get so much product delivered and installed by their required date. Because American Warehouse Systems implements systems worldwide this location posed no...
Posted by AW-Systems on August 4th, 2010 :: Filed under
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My name is William and I am an officer in the greatest Army on this earth. I was raised in a small town in the UP (upper peninsula of Michigan). My folks weren’t much, blue collar, hard working, didn’t have a pot to piss in. My childhood was a series of misadventures, neglect, and abuse. I used to have an older brother but he was killed when I was two. I imagine my mom and dad were more “normal” before the accident. I don’t remember him or “normal”.
I went to high school and did fairly well for a kid whose dad was drunk all the time and whose mom was never home. I played baseball and received a partial scholarship at...
Posted by AW-Systems on July 28th, 2010 :: Filed under
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