J.R. Wilson
A Faircount Media Group Senior Writer and veteran journalist who has been a full-time freelance writer, focusing primarily on aerospace, defense, and high technology, since 1992. He spent eight years as a reporter, editor, and bureau manager with United Press International before joining McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company in 1980, serving as head of public relations for that division of the aerospace giant before taking a similar post with Cubic Corp.
After a brief stint in the private sector, he was appointed North American Group Editor for Jane’s Information Group. He later served as creative director and editor-in-chief of Today’s Officer.
As a freelancer, Wilson has written for dozens of magazines and web sites around the world, including: Military & Aerospace Electronics, Aerospace America, Armed Forces Journal, Air Transport World, Sea Power, Military Medical Technology, Aerospace Asia/Pacific, Destination Las Vegas, Signal, Training & Simulation Journal, and C4ISR Journal.
Stories by J.R. Wilson
Interview: Craig Robinson, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, VA National Acquisition Center
Published in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Featured, Interviews, Print Edition with no comments
Established nearly 60 years ago, the National Acquisition Center (NAC) in Hines, Ill., is the largest combined contracting activity within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), responsible for contracting and acquisition support to ...more »
Mustering Military Resources Against Pandemic Flu
Published in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
Avian flu (H5N1), swine flu (H1N1), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – in recent years, a series of new diseases with the potential to become pandemics have raised global concerns about a repeat ...more »
Interview: Col. Marsha Langlois, Director, Medical Supply Chain Directorate
Published in Defense Wide under Featured, Interviews, Print Edition with no comments
The Medical Supply Chain Directorate has a long legacy of service to the Department of Defense (DoD) as a key component of the military medical supply chain. Headquartered at the Defense Supply Center-Philadelphia ...more »
Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Published in Land Forces under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 3 comments
The Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) – formerly the Medical Research & Development Command, created in 1958 – was redesignated in the 1990s when the Army’s medical logistics function was added ...more »
Have Cultural Barriers Blocked LTA Vehicles?
Published in Aerospace under Commentary, Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
The military’s approach to airships since 1960 has a number of critics, from retired USAF Lt. Col. Ed Herlik, who worked on high altitude airships for the USAF Space Command, to former combat/test ...more »
Special Operations Medicine Today
Published in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 2 comments
Every American warfighter now goes into combat with a personal first aid kit and Combat Lifesaver training to provide both personal and buddy medical care immediately. Only moments away is a Combat Medic, ...more »
Warfighter Hearing Impairment: Prevention and Treatment
Published in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 1 comment
The ongoing conflict in Southwest Asia has brought new understanding – and treatments – to a number of age-old military medical issues. One that has received less public attention than most, but has ...more »
The State of U.S. Sealift
Published in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 1 comment
Since the first ship put to sea thousands of years ago, sealift has been the primary method used to move large amounts of materiel and large numbers of warfighters into a combat theater. ...more »
Helping Haiti: Logistics Challenges and Successes
Published in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
When a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti in January 2010, destroying its airport and harbor facilities, President Barack Obama pledged an immediate and all-out rescue and humanitarian relief effort.
With ...more »
Veterans Behavioral Health: Improving Post-combat Care
Published in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Featured, Print Edition with 2 comments
The ongoing conflict in Southwest Asia has garnered a number of distinctive markers. Its two signature medical outcomes are amputations (the result of an historically high battlefield survival rate) and traumatic brain injury ...more »
