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US Navy Completes Qualification Testing Of Lockheed Martin Common Submarine Radio Room
Eagan MN (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Lockheed Martin has reported that the U.S. Navy recently completed operational testing of the strategic Ohio-class Common Submarine Radio Room (CSRR) and has declared the system operationally suitable for the Navy's submarine fleet and effective by exceeding all tested thresholds. Designed to automate communications, while reducing errors and resource requirements, the CSRR is the only automated ... more Empire Challenge 07 Tests Emerging Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Concepts 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Northrop Grumman's recent participation in a joint military exercise will enhance its work with the U.S. Joint Forces Command to improve how military forces conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). Northrop Grumman contributed its modeling, simulation and analysis expertise to Empire Challenge 07, a demonstration of how coalition forces can work together to collect, analyze a ... more Thompson Files: Joint radio vision dims 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 When U.S. President George W. Bush took office nearly seven years ago, his vision of how the military needed to change could be summed up in one word: transformation. Bush shared with many other observers a belief that the defense establishment inherited from Cold War years was too Balkanized and ingrown to cope with emerging threats. He directed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to fashion a ... more DHS Rolls Out No-Fly List Change But No Data Mining 
Washington (UPI) Aug 15, 2007U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Thursday rolled out a plan for implementing the controversial air passenger watch-list screening system called Secure Flight -- dropping plans to mine commercial databases as part of the checks. Chertoff also announced changes to the rules that govern the data airlines provide to the department for international passengers -- the Advance Passenge ... more Analysis: Iran's soft power pays off 
Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 At a time when the United States is widely regarded in the Middle East as a military aggressor and faces plummeting popularity around the world, Iran is taking advantage of the situation to boost its own image and forge closer ties with its neighbors. The U.S. government has long been accused of botching public diplomacy in the Muslim world, where the United States is largely seen as ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday it has won a $23 million contract for follow-on technical and logistics support services for Norway's Aegis weapon system-equipped F310-class frigates Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will provide a full range of engineering, technical, logistics and configuration management support services to maintain and enhance the performance and ... more Analysis: Russian ships in Syria unlikely 
Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 Is the Russian fleet about to find a home in the warm waters of the Mediterranean in the Syrian ports of Tartous and Latakia? Yes, says one opposition official, citing multiple sources -- all anonymous. No, says with a laugh, Syria's ambassador to Washington. The Russian navy -- and before it the Soviet navy -- has long desired a warm-water port to serve the Russian fleet when winter ... more Cost of South Asia floods nears one billion dollars 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 14, 2007The cost of South Asia's worst flooding in decades has reached nearly one billion dollars, officials said Tuesday, as Bangladesh struggled to cope with a major outbreak of water-borne disease. Losses in India's worst-hit northeast amounted to 875 million dollars so far, including damage to crops and property, India's home ministry said, while Bangladesh said it had counted crop damage of at ... more Beyond Batteries: Storing Power In A Sheet Of Paper 
Troy NY (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles. Along ... more Production Costs Of Advanced Biofuels Is Similar To Grain-Ethanol 
London UK (SPX) Aug 12, 2007Second generation biorefineries - those making biofuel from lignocellulosic feedstocks like straw, grasses and wood - have long been touted as the successor to today's grain ethanol plants, but until now the technology has been considered too expensive to compete. However, recent increases in grain prices mean that production costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) Aug 14, 2007German engineering giant Siemens said on Tuesday it had won an order worth more than 334 million euros (459 million dollars) to build 500 electric freight trains for China's railways. Siemens' Transportation System unit will build the powerful locomotives with its Chinese partner CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co (ZELC). "These will be the most powerful locomotives in the world, with 50 ... more Outside View: Nuclear future in space 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 Solar energy supplies most of power in spacecraft nowadays. Although the efficiency of solar cells has grown substantially recently, they have reached the limit of their development and can supply electricity only in near-Earth orbits and for satellite-borne equipment. Such large-scale projects as the exploration of the moon or a manned mission to Mars require nuclear power plants. more Outside View: Space industry confusions 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 13, 2007 If the past is any guide, we will learn about the latest plans for the Russian space program at the end of August. On Aug. 21 the MAKS-2007 international aerospace show will open in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow. Why such certainty that important announcements will be made? Two years ago, at the previous show, visitors admired a mockup of Russia's Kliper reusable spacecraft developed by En ... more Northrop Grumman Delivers Key Software For First F-35 STOVL Variant 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Northrop Grumman has delivered to F-35 Lightning II prime contractor Lockheed Martin the initial release of software required to perform manufacturing checkout of the first F-35B short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) variant. The company has delivered updates for software modules used to perform three critical functions: functional test of key sensor subsystems such as radar, electronic warfare ... more Syria buys advanced anti-aircraft missiles: Israeli report 
Jerusalem (AFP) Aug 13, 2007Israeli media reported on Monday that Syria has acquired an array of advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles as part of a military build-up ahead of a possible war with the Jewish state. Syria currently has "the densest anti-aircraft deployment in the world," Israel's mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily quoted a military source as saying. "Syria has purchased from the Russians the wo ... more
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