
Raytheon gets $23M Evolved Sea Sparrow contract
Washington (UPI) Jul 1, 2016 - Raytheon has been awarded a $23 million cost-plus-fixed fee U.S. Navy contract for a variety of support duties on the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, or ESSM, program.
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Washington (UPI) Jul 1, 2016 - Raytheon has been awarded a $23 million cost-plus-fixed fee U.S. Navy contract for a variety of support duties on the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, or ESSM, program.
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Beirut (AFP) July 1, 2016 - Separate air raids in northern Syria by regime aircraft and warplanes of the US-led international coalition killed at least 25 civilians on Friday, a monitoring group said.
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Washington (AFP) July 1, 2016 - The United States on Friday lifted the lid on one of the most controversial tactics of President Barack Obama's secretive counter-terror campaign, detailing for the first time the number killed in air strikes in countries like Pakistan and Libya.
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Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2016 - A deal for China's largest cement maker to take over a major rival collapsed after failing to gain government approval, the company said Friday, in a blow to Beijing's pledges to tackle oversupply.
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Athens (AFP) July 1, 2016 - Greece's parliament on Friday approved the sale of a majority stake in the Port of Piraeus to China's COSCO, just before a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
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Washington (UPI) Jul 1, 2016 - Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has been awarded a $272 million fixed-price-incentive U.S. Navy contract for the planning, advanced engineering and procurement of long lead time material in support of the sea service's next America-class amphibious assault ship, LHA-8.
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Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 01, 2016 - A new laser-based uranium enrichment technology may provide a hard-to-detect pathway to nuclear weapons production, according to a forthcoming paper in the journal Science and Global Security by Rya
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Baghdad (AFP) June 30, 2016 - Iraqi and US-led coalition aircraft decimated the Islamic State group's forces fleeing the Fallujah area, destroying hundreds of vehicles and killing dozens of jihadists, officials said on Thursday.
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Yerevan (AFP) June 30, 2016 - Armenia's parliament on Thursday approved the government's decision to join Russia's air defence system in a move criticised by the opposition as surrendering the country's sovereignty.
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Ottawa (AFP) June 30, 2016 - Canada will deploy 1,000 soldiers in Latvia to one of four battalions NATO is assembling in Eastern Europe in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea, Canadian media reported Thursday.
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Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2016 - The U.S. and New Zealand are planning to show off missile systems during the massive Rim of the Pacific war game event that starts Thursday.
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