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SELEX Sistemi Integrati Contracts With EU For Command, Control And Information System
Rome, Italy (SPX) Jan 24, 2008SELEX Sistemi Integrati signed a contract with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union for the development, supply and installation of a Command and Control Information System, including the provision of related support, training and maintenance services. The estimated total value of the contract is 11.1 million Euros. The contract is linking SELEX Sistemi Integrati an ... more UN chief urges progress in stalled global disarmament talks 
Geneva (AFP) Jan 23, 2008UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that stalled disarmament talks at a key negotiating body that includes 65 states must move forward in order to prevent arms races. The secretary general, speaking at the opening of the 2008 Conference on Disarmament, said the body had achieved major successes in the past, but was now "in danger of losing its way". "The Conference on Disarmament has a ... more Truth was first US casualty in Iraq war: study 
Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2008US President George W. Bush and his top officials ran roughshod over the truth in the run-up to the Iraq war lying a total of 935 times, a study released Wednesday found. Bush and his administration "waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq," said the damning report entitled "False Pretenses." According to the Center for Pu ... more Raytheon To Provide Revolutionary AESA Capabilities To 135 F/A-18s 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2008The U.S. Navy is retrofitting 135 Super Hornets with Raytheon's APG-79 active electronically scanned array radar. An initial contract worth nearly $55 million authorizes Raytheon to supply 19 AESA systems, spares and maintenance. This ensures Super Hornets manufactured before installation of the APG-79 will benefit from Raytheon's new advanced sensor technology. The APG-79 program is movi ... more Boeing Completes Flight Of First AEW And C Wedgetail Aircraft Modified In Australia 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 24, 2008Boeing has conducted a successful functional check flight of the first 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW and C) aircraft modified in Australia for Project Wedgetail. During the two-and-one-half hour flight Jan.23 from Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley, Australia, pilot Regis Hancock and first officer Randon Stewart performed a series of functional tests that verified the airwort ... more |
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Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Jan 24, 2008OSI Geospatial announced that its International Systems Operations has successfully completed an engineering design study to integrate it's world leading submarine navigation software into the Astute Class submarine Audacious. The results from this study have led to a prototyping phase that in turn will lead to a production contract from BAE Systems to integrate ECPINS-W software into systems th ... more Too soon to take NKorea off terror list: US 
Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2008North Korea will stay on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism until it makes a full declaration of its nuclear activities, the White House warned Wednesday. "I would say it's definitely not imminent. We need to have that declaration before we can talk about any next steps," said spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The ball is in North Korea's court right now." Pyongyang had been due to disab ... more EU sets emissions targets to fight climate change 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 23, 2008The European Commission set targets Wednesday for EU member states to slash greenhouse gases, seeking to calm fears about the burden of fighting climate change and warning that the cost of dithering would be much higher. Laying out a sweeping strategy, the commission called on EU members to ratchet up their use of renewable energy and biofuels while also unveiling plans to make industry pay ... more Keep climate change on agenda, pleads IPCC 
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 23, 2008The head of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change warned Wednesday that fears about the world economy could put climate change issues in the shade. Global warming is a key theme at this year's meeting of the world's business and political elite in Davos, but fears of a US recession and plummeting global stock markets risk overshadowing it. "I do realise that the ... more Bio-diesel film not to everyone's tastes at Sundance 
Park City, Utah (AFP) Jan 23, 2008Activist Josh Tickell has been using and promoting bio-diesel for about 10 years as an alternative to fossil fuels, helping America lessen its dependence on foreign oil. In his documentary film "Fields of Fuel," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week, he outlines the historical origins of and the political constructs that support petroleum use. As well, he presents the benefi ... more |
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Sao Paulo (AFP) Jan 23, 2008Brazil's sugarcane industry -- the main pillar in the country's biofuel sector -- hailed the European Union plan unveiled Wednesday to cut greenhouse emissions by boosting ethanol use in transport. The European Commission goal of having 10 percent of transport fuels coming from biomass (crops that can be processed to produce ethanol) by 2020 was "a sensible approach," the Brazilian Sugar Can ... more Brussels steers EU nations to clean energy targets 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 23, 2008The European Commission sought Wednesday to bind EU member states to goals for clean energy use, with eco-friendly Sweden being asked to derive almost half its energy needs from renewable forms. The targets -- part of a wider package to slash greenhouse gas emissions by one-fifth in 12 years -- will force countries to boost their use of such energy forms as biomass and wind, wave, solar and ... more Russian Earth-Orbiting Satellites To Use US Microchips 
Krasnoyarsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 23, 2008Russia's major producer of Earth-orbiting satellites said on Tuesday it intends to use microprocessors produced by the U.S.-based firm Aeroflex on its relay satellites. On January 22, representatives of Aeroflex's Colorado division, Aeroflex Colorado Springs, arrived in the town of Zheleznogorsk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in East Siberia, where the Academician Reshetnev Research and Production ... more NASA Selects Jaiwon Shin To Head Aeronautics Research 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Jaiwon Shin has been named as NASA's associate administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington. As the associate administrator, Shin will be responsible for managing the agency's aeronautics research portfolio and guiding its strategic direction. This portfolio includes research in the fundamental aeronautics of flight, aviation safety and the nation's airspace syste ... more Rocket And Missile Chaos Besets Russia 
Moscow (UPI) Jan 16, 2008The Russian defense industry, like any modern institution, plans ahead. Thus four-star Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the General Staff of Russia's armed forces, told a meeting of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, in mid-November 2007 that "we have already started creating a new program to last until 2020." As a result, this year promises a lot in ... more
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