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 Le Plessis-Robinson, France (SPX) Jul 22, 2009 
Antoine Bouvier and Edward Nowak, the Chief Executive Officers of MBDA and the BUMAR group of Poland respectively, have met in France to sign a framework agreement between their two organisations. The full details of the final agreement will be established and formalised during the next two months in readiness for its signature this autumn. This agreement will see MBDA and BUMAR jointly in ... read more 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2009It's no secret that unmanned aircraft are widely used in today's war to provide information, surveillance and armed reconnaissance. What's not widely known is the evaluation process these aircraft go through before they are delivered to the warfighter. Members of Detachment 5 of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center here test the MQ-1 Predator and three versions of the RQ-4 ... more
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Phuket, Thailand (AFP) July 21, 2009The signing by the United States this week of a friendship pact with Southeast Asia sends a strong signal of its desire to deepen ties and counter China's increasing influence, diplomats said. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will ink the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation on Wednesday in the Thai resort of Phuket during a meeting with her counterparts from the Association of Southeast ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2009A new study published this week takes scientists a step further in their quest to understand how Antarctica's vast glaciers will contribute to future sea-level rise. Reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and University of Durham describe how a new 3-d map created from radar measurements reveals features in the landscape beneath a vast river of ... more 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jul 20, 2009 The Israeli air force is training a new battalion of air-defense troops to man the first batteries of the Iron Dome system designed to shoot down short-range rockets, which is scheduled for deployment in the southern Negev Desert in May 2010. The first units will be arrayed to counter Qassam and Grad rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Hamas, which controls the coastal territory ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 20, 2009Entrepreneurs at ESA's Business Incubation centre in the Netherlands have used radar technology from the agency's Envisat remote-sensing satellite to develop a compact, high-resolution radar that can monitor land and buildings from small aircraft. The radar can monitor structures such as dams, harbours, canals and buildings, leading to maps for urban planning, territory surveillance and ... more |
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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jul 16, 2009Raytheon has been awarded one of three $30 million contracts for Phase A system design and prototype of the Space Fence system. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to detect and report space objects. "Space Fence is the future of space situational awareness," said Pete Franklin, vice president for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems' National ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 16, 2009Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ready for departure. In just a few hours, the Eagle's ascent module would blast off the Moon, something no ship had ever attempted before, and Neil needed his wits about him. He curled up on the Eagle's engine cover and closed his eyes. But he could not sleep. Neither cou ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 15, 2009US President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned Congress he would veto funds for more F-22 fighter jets as well as other changes to his proposed defense budget, his administration said. The president was opposed to provisions in a bill by the Senate Armed Services Committee that would fund an additional seven F-22 aircraft at a cost of 1.75 billion dollars and a second engine for the F-35 jet ... more 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jul 16, 2009The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $10 million firm-fixed-price contract to perform concept studies for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), a scalable solid-state radar suite for future surface combatants. Comprised of an S-Band radar, an X-Band radar and a Radar Suite Controller (RSC), AMDR is intended to significantly enhance a ship's defensive capability against advanced ... more |
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