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Lockheed Martin's THAAD Weapon System Conducts Exo-Atmospheric Interceptor Test
Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted a successful exo-atmospheric test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, HI. The flight test demonstrated the system's ability to detect, track and intercept an incoming unitary target above the Earth's atmosphere. Preliminary data indicates ... more Northrop Grumman Achieves Two Major F-35 Production Milestones 
Palmdale CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Northrop Grumman completed the center fuselage for the first weight-optimized Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft -- a conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) variant designated AF-1. The milestone comes just 24 hours after the company officially began the first phase of F-35 low rate initial production by starting the fabrication of a single-piece, all-composite inlet duct for the Air Force's ... more Northrop Grumman To Compete For US Coast Guard Nationwide Automatic Identification System 
New Orleans LO (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Northrop Grumman has announced its intent to lead a team that will compete to design, integrate, install and test the Coast Guard's Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS). NAIS will be a two-way maritime digital communication system, which will continually transmit and receive voiceless exchange of vessel data, including vessel identity, position, speed, course, destination and other ... more Raytheon Teams With Industry Best To Pursue Army Satellite Communications Program 
Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Raytheon will team with the industry's best communication solutions providers in pursuing the Army's next generation of satellite communications, the High Capacity Communications Capability, or HC3. Raytheon's significant systems integration expertise includes its work on the Navy's Zumwalt class destroyer program and its recent $1 billion Navy Multiband Terminal win to provide the Navy's future ... more Military Matters: A 'little ship' Navy 
Washington (UPI) Oct 29, 2007 In an article in the November issue of Atlantic Monthly, "America's Elegant Decline," Robert Kaplan reminds us of a geostrategic reality we can easily forget in the face of Fourth Generation wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: The United States is inescapably a maritime power. When Kaplan says, "Hulls in the water could soon displace boots on the ground as the most important military catchph ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Oct 29, 2007Russia test fired an inter-continental ballistic missile on Monday from a cosmodrome in neighbouring Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported. The RS-18 missile, known under Western classification systems as an SS-19 Stiletto, was aimed at a test ground in the Kamchatka peninsula in far eastern Russia, said a spokesman for Russia's strategic missile forces. The test was intended to che ... more Czech-US radar talks resume in aftermath of Gates bombshell 
Prague (AFP) Oct 29, 2007Czech and US experts will start a third round of negotiations Tuesday over the siting of a US anti-missile radar on Czech soil, officials from both sides told AFP Monday. "The talks will only deal with the legal framework for US soldiers being at the base, not at all with Russians," Czech defence ministry spokesman Jan Pesek told AFP. He referred to previous suggestions by US Defence Secreta ... more US mulls North Korea meeting at Beijing nuclear talks 
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2007Chief US negotiator Christopher Hill could meet his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-Gwan in Beijing this week, the State Department said Monday amid new talks on the Stalinist state's nuclear program. Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs, is due to hold bilateral contacts with Chinese officials from Wednesday regarding international efforts to dismantle North Korea' ... more Brazil boosts military spending more than 50 percent 
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 28, 2007Brazil Sunday announced it plans to boost its military spending by more than 50 percent in 2008, to around five billion dollars, and draw up a new defense plan, but told its neighbors they should not worry. "Brazil has well established, peaceful relations with all South American nations ... one of our political priorities is economic and structural integration of the region ... (and in 2008) ... more New Insights Into How Lasers Cut Flesh 
Nashville TN (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. From cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures. Despite this increasing popularity, there is still a lot that scientists do not know about the ways in which laser light interacts with living tissue. Now, some of these basic questions have been answered in the first investigat ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 29, 2007A ship with heavy fuel oil provided by the United States was headed to North Korea Monday as nations involved in disarmament talks resumed talks on energy aid for the communist country. The two-day meeting at Panmunjom, on the heavily fortified inter-Korean border, came after the North agreed to disable by December 31 its plants producing material for atomic weapons. "We are gathered her ... more Leading Aviation Companies Form Alliance To Advance System Wide Information Management For National Airspace 
Rockville MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Lockheed Martin, along with Boeing, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Harris Corporation, has announced the formation of an industry alliance to help advance the transformation of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) System Wide Information Management (SWIM) initiative. The SWIM Alliance, which is led by Lockheed Martin, is being established to help improve the efficiency of the Na ... more Russia launches first Proton rocket after crash 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 26, 2007Russia carried out its first launch on Friday of a Proton cargo rocket since a previous such rocket crashed on the Kazakh steppe, a launch official told AFP. The rocket, which is fuelled by a highly toxic propellant, was carrying three satellites that will form part of Russia's GLONASS navigation system. The rocket "launched successfully" at 0735 GMT, the official from Russia's Khruniche ... more Dawn Checks Out As Outbound Cruise Progresses 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2007Dawn's checkout phase continues to go very well. The spacecraft is healthy as it and Earth travel their separate ways, separating at almost 1 light second (nearly 300,000 kilometers, or 186,000 miles) per day. In our last report, thruster #3 of the ion propulsion system had been operated for 25 hours. Dawn's mission control team at JPL commanded the probe to conduct additional tests on Oct ... more China Moon Mission Chang'e-1 In Good Condition 
Beijing (XNA) Oct 28, 2007All the systems of China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 are in good conditions with the high energy solar particle detector and the low energy ion detector functioning properly on Saturday, according to the moon probe team. The Chang'e-1, China's first moon orbiter, is currently moving on a 24-hour orbit with an apogee of 70,000 kilometers after it entered the orbit following its second orbital t ... more
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