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Lockheed Martin Team Shifts Into Production Effort To Add GPS Demonstration Signal To Modernized Satellite
King Of Prussia PA (SPX) Sep 05, 2007The Lockheed Martin-led team has begun production activities to reconfigure a modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite to include a new demonstration payload that will temporarily transmit a third civil signal following a successful review with the Air Force. Lockheed Martin and its navigation payload supplier ITT, Clifton, N.J., are proceeding on-schedule ... more Military Matters: Growing chaos in Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Sept. 4, 2007 As good news continues to flow from the U.S. "surge" -- some of it true, some of it false, and all of it spun -- it is easy to forget the bottom line. The bottom line is whether we are beginning to see the re-emergence of a state in Iraq. Recent news stories throw some light on that question, and it is not a favorable light. Recent figures show that the number of killings taking place ... more Analysis: Adding centrifuges to the fire 
Washington (UPI) Sept. 4, 2007 New reports from Iran say the Islamic republic is running more than 3,000 centrifuges, an announcement that is certain to augment fears in Washington and Western Europe that Iran's nuclear program is for military, rather than civilian, use, as Iran's leadership insists. The announcement was made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday. This announcement will also likely ... more Several countries trying to hack into US military system: Pentagon 
Washington (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Several nations and groups are trying to break into the US military's computer system, the Pentagon said Tuesday after reports China's military had successfully hacked into the network. The Chinese military's cyber-attack was carried out in June following months of efforts, the London-based Financial Times reported Tuesday, citing unnamed current and former US officials. Officials had ... more Talks ongoing to bolster chemical arms ban 
Doha (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Talks are continuing with countries that are not yet party to a convention banning chemical weapons to persuade them to join, a legal adviser to the body monitoring the treaty said on Tuesday. "We are working to convince" these states to join the convention, Santiago Onate, adviser to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), told AFP in Qatar on the sidelines of a ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 05, 2007Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeyev will discuss a possibility of creating an OPEC-like grain cartel with his colleagues from Australia in September. He said the United States is reviewing the idea, and somewhat earlier Ukraine and Kazakhstan accepted it as a rational suggestion. But agricultural experts are not too optimistic about the idea to control the production and trade in ... more Composite Technology's DeWind Announces Texas Wind Turbine Demonstration Site 
Irvine CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2007Composite Technology has announced that is its subsidiary DeWind, in association with Texas State Technical College (TSTC), has signed a Memorandum of Intent with the City of Sweetwater to establish a Wind Turbine Demonstration Site on city owned land. DeWind will install its 2 megawatt 60Hz DeWind D8.2 prototype on the site in the Fall of 2007. Further development and prototype turbines will ... more Thousands without power as California sizzles 
Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Around 40,000 homes across California were without power Tuesday as searing temperatures roasted the region and drained the electricity grid, authorities said. Around 11,000 residents were still suffering from power outages across Los Angeles while a further 29,000 households were without electricity in the areas surrounding the metropolis, utility companies said. Los Angeles and parts ... more The 5 Ws Of Corn Production 
Madison WI (SPX) Sep 05, 2007As of late, many uncertainties have been sprouting up in corn production. Researchers and producers have been wondering if precision agricultural technologies can improve crop yield and quality or reduce their variability. Farmers have been asking a number of questions from, which hybrid should I plant for best yield and quality, to does applying nitrogen fertilizer at a uniform rate produce a ... more Iraq oil law (still) coming soon 
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 4, 2007 The question is simple on the third and final day of a major Iraqi energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women broke bread with Iraq's industry chiefs, politicians and technocrats: When will Baghdad set the ground rules for the international oil community's long-awaited venture into the largest oil prize on Earth? The answer, evenly nuanced, is clear: A version of the ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 04, 2007Boeing, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully demonstrated in flight tests that the Airborne Laser's battle management and beam control/fire control systems can complete the full series of steps required to support a ballistic missile intercept. During these "low power" tests, which concluded Aug. 23, the modified Boeing 747-400F operated from Edwards Air ... more Bush says fewer troops needed to maintain Iraq security 
Al-Asad Air Base, Iraq (AFP) Sept 3, 2007US President George W. Bush said during a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday that security could be maintained with fewer US troops if a turnaround in the restive province of Anbar continues. Bush made the remarks after a meeting of his "war council" with Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi leaders just days before General David Petraeus and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker report ... more Balance in Taiwan Straits 
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 During the past seven to 10 years, China's rapid buildup of military power has tipped the balance in the Taiwan Strait strongly in its favor. Since 1999, when former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui announced his "two states" theory -- daring to say that the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China are two different states, precipitating the PRC's aggressive stance against the ... more Few challenges for extremists 
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 Violent extremist groups are the most recognized face of Islam across the world, though they are a tiny minority within the Muslim community. But the methods they use -- suicide bombings, mass killings, executions and hijacking -- draw immediate attention. And since they do so in the name of Islam, what they do also makes their faith look bad. Muslim and Western scholars of ... more Britain, France must be included in weapons talks: Russian general 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Nuclear powers Britain and France must be included in any new efforts by Washington and Moscow to reduce stocks of tactical nuclear weapons, a Russian defence ministry official said on Monday. "We're ready to launch such negotiations with the United States but it must take place with the participation in the process of other countries, above all Britain and France," said General Vladimir ... more
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