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Raytheon is being awarded a $259.9 million U.S. Navy contract to overhaul and upgrade 57 Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems and to provide ancillary equipment, spares, as well as additional technical support. The agreement calls for 40 sea-based Phalanx systems and 17 Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon Systems. "The capability of our world-class Ku-band radar coupled with Phalanx's the ... read more 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 20, 2009The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Northrop Grumman phase 1 of the $37-million Terahertz (THz) Electronics contract. Work on the contract will support military and space satellites with the development of active receivers and transmitters operating at 670 gigahertz that ensure reliable, high-resolution images, and other applications. "This contract win shows ... more
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New York (AFP) May 19, 2009A planned US anti-missile system, hotly opposed by Russia, to defend Europe against the threat of missile attack from Iran would not work, a new study by a US-based think tank said Tuesday. The study by the New York-based EastWest Institute found the proposed system "will not provide dependable protection against an Iranian threat if and when it emerges." The study titled "Iran's Nuclear ... more 
Seoul (AFP) May 19, 2009South Korea said Tuesday three foreign firms were bidding for an early warning project to detect North Korean ballistic missiles. Elta Group of Israel, a Netherlands-based unit of France's Thales Group and Raytheon of the United States submitted bids by the May 18 deadline, the Defence Acquisition Programme Administration said in a statement. The winner would be announced by the end of ... more  
Hong Kong (UPI) May 19, 2009 One member of the Russian military delegation to last November's Zhuhai Air Show described the Chinese-Russian arms trade as being in a long and drawn-out winter. A representative of Rosoboronexport, the agency that handles exports of Russian defense equipment, declined to comment on China's possible export of J-10A fighters equipped with Russian AL-31F engines. China did have it ... more  
London, UK (SPX) May 20, 2009Northrop Grumman will be demonstrating its range of air traffic management systems and capabilities together with its new integrated airport security solution, Airtight, at the Airport Show, Dubai. Airtight uses data from existing airport sensors and infrastructure to create a common operating picture which can then be shared with the emergency services and first responders, resulting in ... more |
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Minneapolis MN (SPX) May 18, 2009Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force successfully fired an AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake on April 13, 2009. The firing marks the fifth consecutive successful AARGM live fire in the program's System Development and Demonstration (SD and D) phase and continues AARGM's progression toward Independent Oper ... more  
Denver CO (SPX) May 13, 2009Intermap Technologies has announced that its Intermap Federal Services subsidiary has received a USD $1.2 million contract to provide 3D digital elevation data and other map products for an international project. The Company is generating uniformly accurate elevation datasets under a new product line, TopoSAR, that serve a client's need for large and difficult to access geographic regions ... more 
Newport RI (SPX) May 13, 2009The US Naval Underwater Warfare Center (NUWC) in Rhode Island has placed a contract with Sonardyne for the supply of an additional Sentinel Intruder Detection Sonar system. The announcement follows the completion of rigorous acceptance and readiness trials by NUWC in 2008 when Sentinel was shown to meet the US Navy's performance requirements for diver detection. The latest contract adds an ... more |
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