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 Cape Town (AFP) Aug 2, 2009 
A crisis in South Africa's arms control body has resulted in weapon deals being authorised to repressive regimes such as Iran, Libya, Zimbabwe and North Korea, the main opposition party said Sunday. Democratic Alliance shadow minister of defence David Maynier said "several dodgy deals appear to have slipped through the cracks" as the arms control body has failed to meet regularly and produce ... read more
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Jul 29, 2009 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika this month established two companies that will manufacture equipment for the North African country's military, a move aimed at building up an indigenous defense industry. Bouteflika's effort falls within a concerted drive across the Arab world to develop a regional arms industry that has gathered momentum in recent years. The region's state ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Linthicum MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2009Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $10 million firm-fixed price U.S. Navy contract to analyze and provide system concept studies for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), a next generation radar system planned for the U.S. Navy's CG(X) and Future Surface Combatant platforms. "Northrop Grumman's unique approach on AMDR results from applying our proven active electronic scanned array te ... more  
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jul 30, 2009The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company two contracts that extend the company's legacy of performance and support for the Aegis weapons system. Under the contracts, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will provide an AN/SPY-1 radar transmitter ordnance alteration kit to enhance the radar's processing performance and multi-mission capability. The company will also continue its perf ... more  
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2009Sensing technology developed by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system has begun its one-year mission to determine whether the polar regions of the moon contain ice. Launched aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter June 18 and activated July 8, the system, known as Mini-RF, will take high-resolution radar imagery of permanently shaded regions of the moon to ... more |
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St. Louis (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 The first Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet for the Royal Australian Air Force has had a test flight from Lambert International Airport in St. Louis as part of the manufacturer's preparations for the aircraft to make its maiden voyage to the buyer. Boeing unveiled the aircraft July 8 at the company's Integrated Defense Systems facility in St. Louis and the test flight took place on Tuesday ... more 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Northrop Grumman's newest active electronically scanned array (AESA) fighter sensor, the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), has been successfully installed on a U.S. Air Force F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. In November, SABR began a series of flight demonstrations aboard the company's test aircraft, successfully detecting and displaying multiple aerial targets and generating high ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 24, 2009More than 100 years have passed since the Tunguska Meteorite Event and the mystery of its occurrence remains unsolved, but scientists have not given up on solving the riddle. This July, an international research group from Italy and the United States ventured into deepest Siberia to investigate the most likely explanations of the mysterious event, and RIA Novosti correspondent David Burghardt ... more |
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