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October 29, 2014

US Suppliers' Fight Over Military Contract to Take Months to Resolve
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 27, 2014
US Military Supplier Northrop Grumman and its rival Raytheon will not get a resolution until next year, regarding their contract battle over the newest ground based radar system for the US Air Force, Government Accountability Office (GAO) Associate General Counsel Ralph White said Wednesday. "We have an administrative forum that can hear these complaints and then we have one hundred days to initiate a decision," White told RIA Novosti Wednesday. White also pointed out that Northrop Grumman c ... read more

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Raytheon, Polish firm to explore military radar opportunities Raytheon and Poland's PIT-RADWAR are planning to cooperate in the area of radar systems and sub-systems for the country's military and international market. ... more		Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose scheduled for upgrades British firm Babcock International is ready to begin a 15-month refit of the Royal Navy's HMS Montrose, a Type 23 frigate, at its dockyard in Devonport. ... more		EU should consider forming combined military force: defence chief NATO 'far from being in a crisis' over Greenland: top commander 'War is back in vogue,' Pope Leo says		JLENS radar data integrates with NORAD system A series of laboratory tests have proven that data collected by the JLENS aerostat-radar system can be successfully be converted into a format for use by NORAD. ... more
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Japan aims to dig deep-sea rare earths to reduce China dependence

NATO chief talks Arctic security with Rubio amid US Greenland push

France taps Thales for radar antenna research project		MEADS fire control radar demonstrates capability		Russia Plans to Boost Space Monitoring Capability by 2018		Raytheon producing backup components for missile defense radar		Japan wants its own early-warning planes: report
Nanoribbon film keeps glass ice-free		Program Grows Lasers Directly on Silicon-Based Microchips		Scientific discoveries during search for missing plane		U.S. military taps Northrop Grumman for new technology		Helicopter-Type UAVs May Appear in Russian Navy in One Year

Diehl delivers 4,000th production IRIS-T missile to Sweden

Stealth wind turbines to become operational in France in 2015

Singapore has full fleet of Alenia Aermacchi trainer planes

Selex ES adds to its radar product line

Migrating birds sprint in spring, but take things easy in autumn

NASA Radar System Surveys Napa Valley Quake Area

Iran unveils new missile, radar systems

Sentinel-1 poised to monitor motion

Bats bolster brain hypothesis, maybe technology, too

New F-16 configuration features AESA radar

Three Radars are Better than One

Canada's MDA receives radar antennas for satellite use

Snow has thinned on Arctic sea ice

BAE Systems touts its Artisan radar system

US looks to Japan space program to close Pacific communications gap

New integrated bridge systems for destroyers

Northrop completes UAV fuselage for NATO program

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