Former Pentagon official Delores Etter may well be the most sought after engineer in the power corridor of the nation's capital.

A fascinating new book tells the story of Alfred Lee Loomis, a visionary who set up a world-class private lab that laid the groundwork for detection technologies that changed the course of World War II.

The new Joint Strike Fighter is one of the most sophisticated war machines ever conceived and may also change the way engineering is taught.

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