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Aurora Wins Navy Contract To Help Counter IEDs
Cambridge MA (SPX) May 07, 2007Aurora Flight Sciences announced that the company has been selected for award of a contract through the Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to develop a low-cost, easily deployed, degradable taggant that can be dispersed over a wide area of interest using an unmanned aerial system, such as the company's next-generation GoldenEye 80 UAS. The taggant would note suspicious ... more Scientist Focuses On Soldiers' Operational Behavior 
Natick MA (AFNS) May 07, 2007When it comes to what troops in the field want to get their missions accomplished, Army behavioral scientist Armand Cardello is an expert. For more than 30 years, he has worked at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Massachusetts, focusing on military members - their needs, expectations, likes and dislikes. Now, Cardello has been appointed a senior resear ... more Ball Aerospace Wins Contract To Support Air Force Research Laboratory 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) May 07, 2007Ball Aerospace and Technologies has won its fifth consecutive contract to operate the Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory (IRREL) at the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/VSSS). Ball's Systems Engineering Solutions (SES) group, located in Albuquerque, was awarded the five-year contract to operate the IRREL for AFRL/VSSS from its Albuquerque location. ... more New Concept Gets Latest Technologies To Warfighters Quickly 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) May 07, 2007The F-22 Raptor and Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle had barely finished their maiden flights and begun serving in the war on terrorism when engineers, developers and testers here were already at work to improve on the capabilities of those aircraft. That concept, referred to as "incremental development," is moving the latest technology to the field in support of warfighters as soon as ... more What If Iran Acquires Nukes 
Washington (UPI) May 4, 2007What would happen if Iran announced that it had acquired nuclear weapons just before the 2008 U.S. presidential elections? To try and find out, I ran a role-playing game with this scenario in my "War on Terrorism" class Monday at George Mason University. The class was divided into several groups: Americans, Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians, Israelis, Saudis and the U.N. Security Council's permane ... more |
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Seoul (UPI) May 04, 2007China has sharply expanded its business ventures in North Korea in recent years, tapping into the country's natural resources as it seeks to boost its leverage over the communist state, South Korea's state-run think tank says. What's more, China will exploit its impoverished neighbor further in future -- Beijing sees Pyongyang as a potential part of its northeastern area, bordering Russia or Mon ... more Robot Teams Handle Hazardous Jobs 
Manhattan KS (SPX) May 07, 2007Searching buildings for weapons of mass destruction and supply routes for improvised bombs are extremely dangerous but important jobs. That's why Scott DeLoach is working to create robots and robot teams to handle these and other tasks. DeLoach, associate professor of computing and information sciences at Kansas State University, has received a $219,140 grant for "Test-bed for Intelligent, Mobil ... more Weldon Says Democrats Set To Cripple Manned Space Program 
Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2007U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, M.D. (R-FL) today excoriated the Democratic leadership for failing to allow a vote on an amendment he proposed that would have kept Congress from raiding NASA's budget to fund a 35% increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF). "It's increasingly clear that Democratic leaders have our manned space program in their crosshairs." ... more Singapore Airlines Selects Rockwell Collins Satellite Communications 
Cedar Rapids IO (SPX) May 04, 2007Rockwell Collins has been selected by Singapore Airlines to provide its SAT-2100 satellite communication system with a single HST-2110 high speed data transceiver for 58 Boeing 777 aircraft. Under the terms of the agreement, Rockwell Collins will replace Singapore Airlines' existing SATCOM system with its latest high speed data offering. In addition to the retrofit program, Singapore Airlines ... more Black Day For Future Combat Systems As Funding Gutted 
Washington (UPI) May 02, 2007It was a day of rare bipartisanship on Capitol Hill. But it was also a Black Wednesday for U.S. high-tech defense contractors and for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. For Wednesday was the day that a subcommittee in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives slashed $867 million from one of Rumsfeld's most visionary -- and expensive -- programs: the U.S. military's Future Combat Systems ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) May 03, 2007I used to think soccer was the silliest pretext for war. I am talking about the Football War, also known as the Soccer War or the 100-hours War, a six-day conflict fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. First soccer fans clashed on the field, and then the two countries took up arms. I was wrong: Iran has decided to outdo the Latin Americans. Their fury has been fuelled by "300," a ... more Iran Can Target Missile At US And Europe In Less Than Eight Years Warns US 
Washington (AFP) May 04, 2007Iran may have a long range missile capable of striking the United States and Europe in less than eight years, a senior State Department official said Thursday. John Rood, the assistant secretary of state for international security and non proliferation, said the weapon could be wholly obtained from North Korea, which had provided Iran ballistic missiles previously. The American intelligenc ... more Two Koreas To Hold Top-Level Military Talks 
Seoul (AFP) May 03, 2007South and North Korea are to hold their first top-level military talks in a year to discuss reducing tensions and starting cross-border railway links, a minister said Thursday. Unification Minister Lee Jae-Joung said generals from the two sides would meet from Tuesday to Thursday next week at the truce village of Panmunjom, inside the heavily fortified border zone ... more The Missing Sleeper Cells 
Washington (UPI) May 03, 2007Invading Iraq to unload the Saddam Hussein regime would go a long way toward shrinking the menace of transnational terrorism. At least, that's what some of the war planners firmly believed. Saddam, the "neocons" argued, was the evil genius behind Sept. 11. At one point, 60 percent of the American people went along with the disinformation. Fighting the terrorists over there so they wouldn't ... more WHO's Steps To Patient Safety 
Washington (UPI) May 02, 2007All countries -- from richest to poorest -- can make patients safer by following nine steps, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. "Healthcare has a ways to go in order to become a high-reliability industry," said Karen Timmons, president and CEO of Joint Commission International, a body that accredits hospitals. About 10 percent of hospital patients in the developing world are har ... more
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