Gareth Evans

Dr Gareth Evans spent nearly twenty years, developing and implementing commercial R&D, waste/water recycling and pollution control programmes, gaining experience in land and wetland management, project management and pilot plant design/commissioning. He was also responsible for feasibility studies for European 5th framework programme and involved as a consultant on a projects in the UK, Europe, Turkey and Tasmania. A member of the European Federation of Biotechnology, he was then approached to lead the Environmental Biotechnology teaching at the University of Durham. He now writes extensively on environmental, scientific and technical subjects in a variety of international magazines and online media.

All articles by Gareth Evans

1. A look at the US Navy’s Next Generation Jammer

   ‘Agile, adaptive and integrated electronic warfare’ is how the Pentagon recently described its new strategy to ensure continued US superiority…
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   14 Jun
2. The problem with GPS in the modern military

   Back in 1991, as Operation Desert Storm played out nightly on the extended TV news, the capabilities of precision-guided munitions…
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   11 Jun
3. The evolution of electronic warfare: a timeline

   Russo-Japanese War, 1904: The birth of signals intelligence In January 1904, the Eclipse-class protected cruiser HMS Diana, then stationed in…
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   7 Jun
4. Night vision: a light in the dark?

   According to a report from the research company Markets and Markets, the night vision device market (NVD) is projected to…
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   4 Jun
5. Scanning the M&A landscape: inside Northrop’s Orbital acquisition

   The wind of change has been blowing on Capitol Hill. In 2015, half-way through Barack Obama’s second term in office…
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   30 May
6. Sky Sabre: inside the UK’s missile defence system

   For all of its willingness to embrace the modern military’s love of acronyms, when it comes to serious equipment the…
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   25 Apr
7. Are multinational ventures the way forward for mega military projects?

   In the run-up to Scotland’s independence referendum of 2014, it was made quite clear that UK warships were only ever…
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   12 Apr
8. Regenerative medicine on the battlefield

   During the Vietnam War, only 75% of those injured in combat made it home alive; roll forward to the recent…
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   4 Apr
9. Is the US military machine losing its innovation edge to China?

   Innovation has been central to the US war machine since the end of WWII, and, by implication, to the success…
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   29 Mar
10. Green military structures: saving energy and lives

    “Most of the wars in the last few hundred years were won, or lost, due to logistics,” says Ron Ben-Zeev,…
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    26 Mar