"The depot was overloaded, and we had a backlog of S-3s that were not flying," says Capt. Evan Piritz, commander of Sea Control Wing US Atlantic Fleet, the US Navy's remaining S-3 Viking wing. "The Integrated Maintenance Program changed the way depot-level maintenance was done. The program got aircraft out of maintenance and back into service quickly. It was a complete success." The S-3 Integrated Maintenance Program, or IMP, came to a conclusion on 1 November 2007, as workers completed the last phased maintenance inspection of a multimission Viking aircraft at NAS Jacksonville, Florida.

The Desert Hawk, a small unmanned aerial vehicle, could pass as something pulled off the shelf at your local Toys-R-Us. The seven-pound airplane is constructed of a white Styrofoam-like material. Velcro tabs secure the tail to the fuselage.