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Japan Buys Another Aegis System
Moorestown, NJ (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Lockheed Martin has received a $33 million contract to provide Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability to the Aegis-equipped Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JDS Chokai. JDS Chokai is the second of four Japanese destroyers to be outfitted with the Aegis BMD Weapon System. Aegis BMD is currently being installed on JDS Kongo, which is scheduled to return to sea and conduct ... more Russia To Export S-400 Air Defense System From 2009 
Elektrostal, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Russia could start producing the S-400 Triumf (NATO codename SA-21 Growler) air defense complex for export from 2009, the head of the Almaz central design bureau said Monday. "Within two years, our forces will test this system to ensure that there are no problems with it [on the market]... and then we will start producing them for export from 2009," Igor Ashurbeili said. He said the first S-400 ... more Putin Says Recent North Pole Mission To Back Russian Claim To Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2007The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Russian researchers made the first-ever dive below the North Pole in two mini-submarines last Thursday, taking rock samples from the seabed to gather proof that Russia's continental shelf stretches out into the Arcti ... more WMO Says World Hit By Record Extreme Weather Events In 2007 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Many parts of the world have experienced record extreme weather conditions including unusual floods, heatwaves, storms and cold snaps since the beginning of the year, the UN's weather agency said Tuesday. Preliminary observations also indicated that global land surface temperatures in January and April reached the highest levels ever recorded for those months, the World Meteorological Organisati ... more NASA Helps Texas Respond To Most Widespread Flooding In 50 Years 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 08, 2007On July 3, a NASA aircraft equipped with a state-of-the-art sensor provided emergency response officials with critical soil moisture data for several regions across Texas that were threatened by flooding. NASA responded to the heavy rains and flooding in Texas by redirecting a NASA research aircraft, the P-3B, to Texas after it completed an interagency project in Oklahoma. The aircraft had been ... more |
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Kabul Air Base, Afghanistan (AFNS) Jul 31, 2007From firefighters to aircraft mechanics to squadron commanders, several Airmen are mentoring and training their Afghan National Army air corps counterparts as members of the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan here in the nation's capital. It's a job that's like no other, said Master Sgt. Michael Stoller, a vehicle maintenance craftsman from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, who's b ... more Lockheed Martin Awarded B-2 Bomber Satellite Communication System Upgrade Contract 
Owego, NY (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Lockheed Martin has received a $23 million contract from Northrop Grumman to support the upgrade of satellite communication (SATCOM) systems used by U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber. As part of the program's system development and demonstration phase, Lockheed Martin will replace the B-2's current flight management computers with a new subsystem. "The enhanced performance of our product will en ... more The Good The Bad And The Ugly News From Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Aug 07, 2007Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is now "hunkered down with a small group of sycophantic cronies, increasingly detached from the business of running a government." Speaking not for attribution, this was the message conveyed by a former ranking Iraqi government official in London over the weekend. The current drift at the top, he said, could only be reversed by "a strongman at the top." Aske ... more UN Warns Of Looming Health Crisis In South Asia Flooding 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Millions of people marrooned by severe floods in South Asia face a looming health crisis unless they receive clean water supplies within days, United Nations agencies said Tuesday. The UN children's fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation said that stagnant flood waters were breeding grounds for diarrhoeal and waterborne diseases, including cholera as well as insect-borne diseases such a ... more Rain And Blocked Roads Hinder Nepal Flood Relief 
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 07, 2007More rain and blocked roads have delayed efforts to help 300,000 people in southern Nepal hit by major flooding, amid fears of a rise in water-borne illnesses, officials said Tuesday. "We are concerned about water-borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid," Arjun Bahadur Singh, Nepal's health ministry spokesman, told AFP. "There is no shortage of medicine. However, accessibility is a p ... more |
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Las Vegas (AFP) Aug 3, 2007Satellite navigation systems in cars can be hijacked remotely with relative ease, allowing hackers to feed drivers bogus directions, two experts told a major security conference here. Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco from the website Inverse Path demonstrated Thursday how antennas and a patchwork of commonly available electronics can be employed to replace the legitimate traffic information ra ... more Second Predator Crashes In Iraq In Two Days 
Balad Air Base, Iraq (AFNS) Aug 07, 2007An Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle crashed off base Tuesday at approximately 8 p.m. local time. This was the second Predator to crash in Iraq in two days. Hostile activity does not appear to be a factor in either crash. The crash site is in an unpopulated area and no collateral damage or injuries occurred. A board will be convened to investigate the incident. The aircraft is a ... more Russian Navy Must Restore Presence In Mediterranean Says Naval Commander 
Sevastopol (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Russia must restore its permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean to ensure the protection of its strategic interests in the region, the Navy commander said Friday. "The Mediterranean is an important theater of operations for the Russian Black Sea Fleet," Admiral Vladimir Masorin said, adding that the fleet's zone of control extended through the Black and Mediterranean seas toward the Atlant ... more In Search Of A Radar Program 
Arlington (UPI) Aug 06, 2007If there is one lesson U.S. defense planners should have learned from the frustrating campaign to take down al-Qaida since Sept. 11, 2001, it is the need for better intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The military places all such awareness-enhancing activities under the rubric "ISR," and it tells a fairly convincing story about the steps that have been taken to improve capabilities. B ... more Northrop Grumman Delivers SBIRS GEO-1 Payload To Lockheed Martin 
Azusa CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Northrop Grumman, the payload integrator for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), the nation's next-generation missile warning system, has delivered the first SBIRS geosynchronous orbit (GEO) payload to prime contractor Lockheed Martin for integration into the spacecraft and final system-level testing. This major program milestone was achieved after an extensive thermal vacuum test program t ... more
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