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Excalibur Completes Final Testing Clearing Path For Early Fielding
Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2007Raytheon's Excalibur precision-guided 155 mm artillery round has passed its final testing hurdle for fielding with the successful completion of a so- called Limited User Test in February at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. Pending additional system-level certification, Excalibur will be fielded to U.S. Army and Canadian field artillery units. Boeing Delivers 500th PAC-3 Missile Seeker To Lockheed Martin 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 09, 2007The Boeing has delivered the U.S. Army's 500th Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile seeker, a component that enables the weapon system to detect and track targets. Lockheed Martin Corp. is the PAC-3 Missile prime contractor. Boeing and Lockheed Martin, along with government and industry partners, celebrated the December 2006 delivery milestone during a March 8 ceremony at Boeing's Missile Defense Systems production facility in Huntsville, Ala. USAF Hosts Pacific Command BMD Conference 
Washington (SPX) Mar 08, 2007The U.S. Air Force hosted a conference on ballistic missile defense at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii later last month, Air Force News reported Tuesday. "Service members and civilians from across the Pacific met at Hickam late February for a conference to discuss ballistic missile defense for the PACOM Area of Responsibility," AFN said. |
USAF Japan Base Gets New BMD Infomation System
Washington (UPI) March 07, 2007A U.S. air base in Japan will be operating with a new missile information processing system for ballistic missile defense this summer. The new mobile information processing system for ballistic missile defense operations should be up and running at the Misawa air base in the Aomori Prefecture by mid-2007, the Kyodo news agency reported Saturday. The new system "picks up and analyzes satellite data on ballistic missile launches," the Kyodo report said, citing what it called "local sources." D.R.Congo Nuclear Centre Officials Arrested Over Uranium Smuggling 
Kinshasa, D.R.Congo (AFP) Mar 08, 2007Two officials from the Regional Center for Nuclear Studies in Kinshasa have been arrested in a police inquiry over the illegal sale of uranium, DRCongo's general prosecutor told AFP Thursday. "The general atomic-energy officer and director (of the centre), Fortunat Lumu, and another official are questioned by judicial inspectors over the smuggling of a large amount of uranium," Tshimanga Mukeba said. UN Agency Debates Israel Nuclear Programme 
Vienna (AFP) Mar 08, 2007Iran branded Israel "a uniquely grave threat" to world peace because of its alleged nuclear weapons, after the UN atomic agency sharply cut aid to Tehran because of its own atomic programme. |
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Iran Says Moscow Wants NPP Funding Ahead Of Time
Tehran (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2007Iran's top security official said Thursday Russia demanded payments for the construction of a nuclear power plant in southern Iran ahead of schedule. Russia said last month that Iran had an unpaid debt for its services to build the Islamic Republic's first NPP in Bushehr and warned the launch of the plant, slated for September, could be delayed. Flurry Of Diplomatic Consultations As Iran Sanctions Talks Falter 
Washington (AFP) Mar 08, 2007Major power diplomats held a flurry of telephone consultations Thursday as disagreements snagged negotiations on a new UN sanctions resolution to curb Iran's nuclear program, US officials said. US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns held a conference call Thursday with his counterparts from Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany and then spoke separately with each of the five over the sanctions proposals, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. Harris Receives Intelsat Approval For Its Multiband Deployable Antenna Terminals 
Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2007Harris has received Type Approval for its Large Aperture Multiband Deployable Antenna (LAMDA) terminals from Intelsat, the world's largest provider of fixed satellite services. The announcement was made during the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium, being held March 7-9 at the Broward County Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale. |
The Two Faces Of NATO
New Delhi (UPI) March 05, 2007The NATO alliance now has two faces. The European face was on display in Wiesbaden, Germany, over the weekend when German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung suggested that the new American missile defense system that is planned for deployment in Poland and the Czech Republic should be incorporated into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a whole. General Dynamics Completes Milestone In Design Of US Navy Mobile User Objective System 
Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Mar 09, 2007General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics has completed the Critical Design Reviews (CDRs) for all segments of the ground system as well as terminal waveform software of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), the U.S. military's next-generation narrowband global mobile satellite communications system. The ground system and terminal waveform software will be provided to Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the MUOS program. LockMart And Kaman Aerospace Team Up For Manned And Unmanned Helicopter Systems 
Owego, NY (SPX) Mar 09, 2007Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace Corporation (KAC) of Bloomfield, CT, have teamed to market advanced manned and unmanned helicopter systems worldwide for government applications. Lockheed Martin and Kaman intend to build upon the proven performance of Kaman's K-MAX Aerial Truck, which has demonstrated its potential as an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). |
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