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GD Awarded Gun System Contract By Raytheon Charlotte NC (SPX) Nov 04, 2009
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products has been awarded a $17 million contract to produce gun systems for the Phalanx Block 1B Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) and the Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System by Raytheon Missile Systems of Louisville, Ky. General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products is a business unit of General Dynamics. The Phalanx Block 1B CIWS is the most ... read moreNRL Sensor Provides Critical Space Weather Observations
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 04, 2009Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science Division and Spacecraft Engineering Department offers a first of its kind technique for remote sensing of the ionosphere and thermosphere from space. Flying on-orbit the U.S. Air Force ... 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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'Gaza rockets can now hit Tel Aviv'
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Nov 3, 2009 Israel's military intelligence chief has warned that Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have successfully tested an Iranian rocket that can reach Tel Aviv, the Jewish state's largest urban conurbation. That adds a new urgency to Israel's efforts to develop an effective defensive system capable of shooting down short-range rockets that, if the warning by Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin is cor ... more Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be The Longest Taken From The Andes
Columbus OH (SPX) Nov 04, 2009Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson said that this latest expedition focused on a yet-to-be-named ice field 5,364 meters (17,598 feet) above sea level in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range. The researchers hiked to a col, or saddle ... more US Navy LockMart Contract For Design Of New Surface Ship Electronic Warfare System
Syracuse NY (SPX) Nov 03, 2009The U.S. Navy recently selected Lockheed Martin to provide its next-generation of electronic warfare (EW) systems for surface ships, which will significantly improve the Navy's ability to detect threats to the fleet. Under an initial $9.9 million contract award, the company will produce a preliminary design for the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2 Upgrade by ... more |
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US's Biden garners more support for new anti-missile system
Bucharest (AFP) Oct 22, 2009US Vice President Joe Biden, on a three-day trip to Eastern Europe, said Thursday that Romania had added its support to that of Poland for a new anti-missile system the United States is planning for the region. A day after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk had described Washington's projected new SM-3 anti-missile system as "very interesting, and needed," Biden said that Romania, too ... more Russia may go ahead with Iran missile deal
Tehran (UPI) Oct 23, 2009 As the United States and its allies haggle with Iran over its nuclear program, Moscow has fueled Western unease about its military links to Tehran by pledging to continue selling arms to the Islamic republic. This has raised speculation that it may brush aside the strident objections of the United States and Israel and supply Iran with advanced S-300PMU surface-to-air missiles that ... more Ukraine reassures Russia on missile shield
Moscow (AFP) Oct 23, 2009Ukraine's top diplomat Friday reassured Russia that Kiev was not in talks with Washington over the new US missile shield plan, as he sought to mend relations eroded by a series of crises. "No one has reached out to Ukraine with the initiative on missile defence," said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko, following what he said were "very constructive" talks with his Russian ... more |
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