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San Diego - Mar 23, 2004Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego will lead a six-university effort to enable troops to set up mobile communications networks on the battlefield, using lightweight wireless equipment during commando raids and in other hostile and rapidly changing environments. Lockmart Raytheon JV Gets Billon Dollar Non Line-of-Sight Contract 
Dallas - Mar 23, 2004NetFires LLC, a limited liability company established by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Company, has received a $1.1 billion contract for System Design and Development (SDD) for the Non Line-of-Sight -- Launch System (NLOS-LS), previously known as NetFires. |
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Pakistani Plot To Overthrow President Musharraf Exposed
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Mar 18, 2004A plot to replace Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf with the nuclear engineer who sold the country's secrets to America's self-avowed enemies is being organized by politico-religious leaders, said one of the leaders present at a recent meeting of religious and political parties. Hacker Turf War Raging Online 
Chicago (UPI) March 17, 2004A battle for the control of cyberspace by computer criminals -- similar in intensity to a turf war between rival mob families -- is underway on the Internet. Computer security experts question how prepared the United States is to stop the conflict online, and wonder if nefarious criminal and Islamic terrorist elements are covertly involved in the battle. TSA Gets Privacy Watchdog 
Washington (UPI) March 17, 2004Acting chief of the Transportation Security Administration David M. Stone told lawmakers Wednesday that he would shortly appoint a special privacy officer and an external privacy oversight board to calm public fears and answer congressional criticism about the "Big Brother" character of the agency's computerized passenger threat profiling system, known as CAPPS II. US To Designate Pakistan A Major Non-NATO Ally
Islamabad (AFP) Mar 18, 2004The United States will designate Pakistan a "major non-NATO ally" in a move that will significantly enhance military cooperation between the two countries, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said here Thursday. Northrop Grumman Bids For UK Watchkeeper Battlefield Program 
London - Mar 18, 2004Northrop Grumman ISS International Inc., a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, today submitted its proposal for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Watchkeeper battlefield imagery and intelligence program. Iraq Strains U.S. High Tech Army 
Washington (UPI) March 16, 2004A year after the United States conquered Iraq with minimal casualties in a three week blitzkrieg, it remains bogged down there facing a guerilla war that has already killed more GIs than three weeks of combat did, with far worse in sight. Spain's response to terror 
Washington (UPI) March 16, 2004After the blood of some 200 innocent people was shed in Madrid last Thursday as a result of Europe's most horrific terrorist attack in recent history, much ink will now flow explaining how Spain has given in to the threat and pressures of Islamist terrorism. |
US To Deploy Unmanned Drones In Skies Over Mexican Border
Washington (AFP) - Mar 17, 2004The United States plans to deploy unmanned planes, or drones, into the skies over the border between Arizona and Mexico to guard against potential terrorist activities and clamp down on illegal border crossings, a top US security official said. GuideStar Flight Control Selected for Finmeccanica's Sky-X UAV 
Warrenton - Mar 17, 2004Athena Technologies announced today the selection of its GuideStar control unit by Alenia Aeronautica for its Sky-X UAV. Alenia Aeronautica S.P.A, a Finmeccanica company, of Turin, Italy, has selected the GuideStar GS311 as the Flight Control System (FCS) for its Sky-X UAV. Northrop Grumman's Load-Bearing Antennas Offer 
El Segundo - Mar 16, 2004Northrop Grumman Corporation will help the U.S. Air Force enhance the surveillance capabilities of aerial vehicles by embedding antennas in the primary load-bearing structures of composite aircraft wings. General Dynamics Awarded $6.7m Order for Baseband Node Extension 
Taunton - Mar 16, 2004General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics has received a $6.7 million delivery order as part of a $47.5 million firm-fixed-price contract for baseband node (BBN) large extension node (LEN) configuration and BBN-LEN configuration spares. The contracting agency is the U.S. Army Communications- Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J. LITENING AT Targeting System to be Integrated on F/A-18D Aircraft 
Rolling Meadows - Mar 11, 2004Northrop Grumman is supporting the integration of its LITENING AT targeting system onboard U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D aircraft. LITENING AT is a self-contained, multisensor laser target designating and navigation system that enables fighter pilots to detect, acquire, track and identify ground targets for highly accurate delivery of both conventional and precision-guided weapons. Indian Cricketers Told To Win Over Pakistani Hearts 
New Delhi (UPI) - Mar 10, 2004India's cricket team has been asked not only to win matches in Pakistan but hearts of the local people too. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee presented Indian cricket team members with an autographed bat that said "win not only the game, but hearts also, best wishes". India's Fence Sparks Little Debate 
WASHINGTON (UPI) Mar 10, 2004This summer India will complete building a 340-mile-long fence on its de facto border with Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region. |
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