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Summer Camp In Heiligendamm
Washington (UPI) June 12, 2007Massive protests outside Heiligendamm, cozy words between leaders and deals on climate change and development aid inside the German Baltic Sea resort. Despite criticism from environmental and aid groups, political analysts say the Group of Eight summit in Germany was a success for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel's chances of an agreement on climate change had been rather slim ahead ... more Al-Qaida Makes Critical Blunder In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) June 12, 2007Good news continues to flow from a most unlikely place, namely Iraq's Anbar province, home ground of Iraq's Sunni insurgency: Al-Qaida has blundered and continues to blunder, attacking and alienating the local Sunni population. Adapting, for once, more quickly than the insurgents, the U.S. military has made tactical alliances with some of the Sunni insurgent groups, helping them fight al-Qaida. ... more Defence Treaty Guarantees Security In Post-Cold War Europe 
Vienna (AFP) June 12, 2007The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, which is being reviewed this week in Vienna at Russia's request, is one of the key post-Cold War security accords in Europe. The CFE was signed on November 19, 1990 in Paris by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact -- two opposing blocs during the Cold War -- and was modified in 1999 to adapt it to the European security ... more Putin Is Not Joking On Missiles Cautions Ukrainian President 
Montreal (AFP) June 12, 2007Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said in an interview he took seriously Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent threat to point missiles at Europe. "I think the President of Russia is not kidding," Yushchenko said in an interview published Tuesday by The Globe and Mail. He was referring to Putin's threat to aim Russia's missiles at European cities if elements of a US missile shield were ... more US And Russia Hail Pakistani Move To Combat Nuclear Terror 
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2007The United States welcomed Monday Pakistan's decision to join a global program led by Washington and Moscow to combat nuclear terrorism. Islambad on Saturday announced its intention to join the the "Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism" although its participation would reportedly not cover the country's military nuclear program and installations. About 50 countries are involved in ... more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) June 11, 2007Israel successfully launched a new satellite on Monday, the defence ministry announced, with the device reportedly capable of spying on arch-foe Iran. "The overnight launching increases Israeli defensive capacities and is evidence of Israel's technological power," the ministry said in a statement. The 300-kilogram (660-pound) Ofek-7 (Horizon-7) satellite developed by Israel Aircraft Industries ... more Tether Origami 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 12, 2007NASA is joining a Japanese team in a space experiment that uses reverse origami to show the way to help keep satellites in their proper orbits, or to return spent rocket stages quickly to Earth. Les Johnson of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is working with Prof. Hironori A. Fujii of the Tokyo Metropolitan University on the Foldaway Flat Tether Deployment System--or Fortissimo, as it is some ... more Rockwell Collins And ARINC Sign Agreement For Broadband Offering 
Cedar Rapids IO (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Business jet passengers will soon be better connected than ever with the reintroduction of Rockwell Collins eXchange broadband connectivity offering, featuring ARINC SKYLinkSM's highly successful broadband network service. Under the terms of the agreement, Rockwell Collins will supply airborne broadband hardware and after sales support, while ARINC SKYLink will provide the Ku-band satellite ... more Astrium Services Signs Distribution Agreement With Iridium Satellite 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Iridium Satellite has announced that Astrium Services, a subsidiary of EADS Astrium, has signed an agreement to become a value-added reseller (VAR) of Iridium satellite communication equipment and services. Under the VAR agreement, Astrium Services is authorized to package Iridium-based satellite voice and data solutions for a wide range of international defense and commercial customers. ... more Raytheon Ships ARTEMIS Sensor For On-Demand Surveillance From Space 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2007A hyper-spectral imaging sensor developed by Raytheon to demonstrate and assess military applications from satellites launched on demand has been delivered to Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The delivery marks the sensor's first leg of a journey into space scheduled in December aboard a vehicle known as TacSat-3. The ARTEMIS (Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging ... more |
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Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007The secret budget for U.S. intelligence is much higher than previously thought, perhaps as much as $60 billion, according to the extrapolation of figures inadvertently left buried in a computerized government slideshow. The presentation, made at a Defense Intelligence Agency conference in May and later posted on the agency's Web site, contained a bar chart showing the growing amount of the ... more Who Cyber Smacked Estonia 
Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007The recent cyber attacks on Estonian government networks were likely carried out by politically motivated hacker gangs, not Russian security agencies as some early reports suggested, according to assessments conducted by the U.S. government and the private sector. The attacks were crude so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, utilizing global networks, or botnets, of com ... more Russia Agrees To Help End North Korea Banking Row 
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2007Russia has agreed to help the United States break the impasse over a long-running banking dispute blocking North Korea's nuclear disarmament, the US Treasury said Monday. Moscow reportedly granted a US request for a private Russian bank to accept purportedly illicit North Korean funds currently frozen in Macau's Banco Delta Asia (BDA) before they are moved to Pyongyang. "The United States ... more Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Achieves Major Milestone 
Minneapolis (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy team of PMA-242, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division - China Lake, and the Italian Air Force recently conducted the first Developmental Test (DT) firing of an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) from an F/A-18 aircraft on the China Lake test ranges on 25 May 2007. The test firing confirmed the effective integration of AARGM with the F/A-18 ... more Northrop Grumman To Begin Developing New Satellite Communications System For B-2 Bomber 
Palmdale CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Northrop Grumman has begun work on a 62-month, $171 million system development and demonstration (SDD) contract for the first increment of a new extremely high frequency (EHF) satellite communications system for the U.S. Air Force's B-2 stealth bomber. Under a planned three-increment upgrade program, the new EHF system will eventually allow the B-2 to send and receive battlefield information up ... more
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