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Last month's award of three $30-million concept development contracts for the Space Fence program will yield an outcropping of risk reduction activities designed to improve the overall space surveillance network.
"This is truly a classic multi-contractor, prototyping risk-reduction effort, and a return on the investment of the program to gather data to improve the follow-on phases," said L ... read more 
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2009Northrop Grumman has finished assembling the first Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for the German Ministry of Defence (MoD). With a wing span larger than a commercial airliner and endurance projected at up to 30 hours, the Euro Hawk will serve as the German Air Force's high-altitude, long-endurance signals intelligence (SIGINT) system. The Euro Hawk is a derivative of the Block 20 ... 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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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Aug 07, 2009Raytheon has received a $9.9 million contract to perform concept studies for the U.S. Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR). This radar suite will consist of an S-band radar; X-band radar; and radar suite controller. The system will be scalable to meet the Navy's current and future mission requirements across multiple ship platforms. "We will leverage our experience and experti ... more 
Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 07, 2009The U.S. Navy has awarded a multi-year contract authorizing Raytheon to begin development of the Advanced Airborne Sensor, the follow-on to the Littoral Surveillance Radar System (LSRS). The AAS program will equip the P-8A Poseidon, the Navy's next patrol maritime aircraft. LSRS is currently operational on Navy P-3C Orions; the AAS will provide airborne radar surveillance with next-generat ... more  
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Aug 07, 2009The guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), recently modernized with Lockheed Martin's open architecture Aegis Weapon System, completed an operational trial of its full combat system. The Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) evaluated the ship's Aegis Combat Systems for combat readiness through comprehensive surface and anti-air warfare exercises, including manned raids ... more |
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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  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2009This image - from the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite - shows the city of Kiel and the Kiel Fjord, an approximately 17-km long fjord or firth of the Baltic Sea on the northeastern shore of Schleswig-Holstein. The ships that were in this area at the time the image was captured are each marked with a circle. The high resolution of TerraSAR-X images makes them ideally suitable for the rapid ... more |
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