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Raytheon Awarded Contract For Aegis ProductionTewksbury MA (SPX) Nov 18, 2010 The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon $240 million for production and delivery of critical components of the Aegis weapons system for the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers. Under the contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will provide production, engineering and support services for four ship sets of the AN/SPY-1D(V) transmitter group and MK99 Mod 8 Fire Control System. The radar and fire control system equipment is essential to the Aegis weapon system's ability to track and defend aga ... read more |
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 A former Soviet carrier's Chinese odyssey Foreign military experts believe a 300-metre-long vessel being refurbished in the northeastern Chinese port of Dalian is destined to sail as the country's first aircraft carrier. ... more | .. |
  Months Of Geologic Unrest Signaled Reawakening Of Icelandic Volcano Months of volcanic restlessness preceded the eruptions this spring of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, providing insight into what roused it from centuries of slumber. An international team ... more | .. |
  Sonar System Inspired By Dolphins Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new kind of underwater sonar device that can detect objects through bubble clouds that would effectively blind standard sonar. Just ... more | .. |
  Emirates boost U.S. arms purchases The U.S. Department of Defense plans to sell the United Arab Emirates 60 Boeing AH-64D Apache strike helicopters worth $5 billion - even as Washington turns up the heat on the Persian Gulf state to curb trade with Iran. ... more |
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  Northrop Grumman Bids for Marine Corps Common Aviation CnC Northrop Grumman has submitted its proposal for the demonstration contract for the U.S. Marine Corps Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) Phase 2 sensor data subsystem. The CAC2S ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Bids For Next Gen Aegis Missile Contract Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the concept definition and program planning contract for the Next-Generation Aegis Missile. The Next-Generatio ... more | .. |
  ULA Launches 350th Delta For the 350th time in its illustrious 50-year program history, a Delta rocket launched from U.S. soil, adding another chapter to one of the most successful rocket launch programs in American history ... more | .. |
 EOS Welcomes Australian-US Partnership To Track Space Junk An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems (EOS) on Wednesday welcomed the joint Australian-U.S. partnership to boost tracking of space debris. A leader in the field of space tracking, EOS has bee ... more |
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  Pentagon says vapor trail from an aircraft, not a missile The Pentagon said Wednesday it is satisfied an aircraft - and not a missile - was the source of a vapor trail off Los Angeles this week that sparked fears of a mystery missile launch. ... more | .. |
 NIST Pings Key Material In Sonar, Closes Gap On Structural Mystery Using a neutron beam as a probe, researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have begun to reveal the crystal structure of a compound essential to technologies r ... more | .. |
 Mystery missile vapor trail stumps Pentagon The US military said Tuesday it has detected no launch of a foreign military missile off the coast of California and offered assurances that whatever happened there posed no threat to the United States. ... more | .. |
 Israel halts missile shield deployment Israel's military says it will put its much-touted Iron Dome air-defense system in storage and deploy it only if Hezbollah or Hamas unleash major rocket bombardments. ... more |
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  Japan may put troops near disputed isles: report Tokyo is considering placing troops on a remote Japanese island in the East China Sea to monitor China's expanded naval activities that have worried its neighbours, a newspaper reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  US, Australia sign space surveillance deal Australia and the United States on Monday signed an agreement to cooperate in surveillance of space, possibly expanding the reach of a US military network tracking satellites and space junk. ... more | .. |
 Israel delays deployment of 'Iron Dome' anti-rocket system Israel is to delay the deployment of its "Iron Dome" multi-million-dollar missile defence system until next year, a military source said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  Multi-Purpose UAVs To Get NG STARLite Radars Northrop Grumman has been selected to supply an additional 40 STARLite wide area surveillance radars featuring synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) capabilities f ... more |
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 U.S., Australia forge space defense ties Australia and the United States signed a landmark agreement paving the way for closer cooperation in the surveillance of space, tracking satellites and space junk. ... more | .. |
  China Plans Weather Modification Techniques For Asia Games Meteorological authorities in south China's Guangzhou City may use weather modification techniques this month to guarantee a rainless 2010 Asian Games. Five planes will be used to dispel rain ... more | .. |
  US, Australia to discuss rare earths in security talks US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday that US-Australian security talks will explore alternatives to China for supplies of key rare earth minerals used in high-tech weaponry. ... more | .. |
Boeing Launches Fourth Earth-Observation Satellite For Italy Boeing on Nov. 5 successfully launched the last in a series of four SkyMed spacecraft for the Italian Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation (COSMO). A Delta II ... more |
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 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Engine Helps Boost 350th Launch Of A Delta Vehicle In conjunction with the 50th year of powering the Delta-family of rockets, Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne celebrated the 350th launch of a Delta rocket by successfully helping to boost the fourth COSM ... more | .. |
  Last Tango In Space Adding to their unique information from previous tandem missions, ESA's ERS-2 and Envisat satellites have been paired up again - for the last time. Data from this final duet are generating 3D models ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: The Eye Of Typhoon Megi The German Aerospace Center radar satellite TerraSAR-X looked right into the eye of Typhoon Megi while it was in the middle of the South China Sea. The image, acquired on 21 October 2010, shows the ... more | .. |
 Military Radar Systems Stay On Priority Lists The latest market research on military radar systems shows that the market is a growing and important sector in the defence industry. Even as countries move to reduce defence spending in the face of ... more |
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