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Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk UAS Surpasses Expectations, Establishes Delivery Record In 2007
San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system program finished 2007 on a high note, exceeding its previous record by delivering five production aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. "Not only did we exceed our production and delivery goals last year, but we have also performed on cost and on schedule for the past two years," said Jerry Madigan, Northrop Grumman vice president of high-altitu ... more Elbit Systems To Supply Royal Netherlands Army Advanced BMS 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Elbit Systems announced that it has been awarded a contract from the Netherlands MoD for the supply of advanced Battlefield Management Systems - BMS. Elbit Systems won the contract, scheduled to be completely delivered over five years, following an international tender participated by several of the leading defense companies in the world. Elbit Systems will supply systems to the Royal Neth ... more Lessons From Evolution Applied To National Security And Other Threats 
Durham NC (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Could lessons learned from Mother Nature help airport security screening checkpoints better protect us from terror threats? The authors of a new book, Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World, believe they can -- if governments are willing to think outside the box and pay heed to some of nature's most successful evolutionary strategies for species adaptation and survival. ... more India seeks bidders for new chopper deal: source 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 29, 2008A month after scrapping a 600-million-dollar deal to buy nearly 200 helicopters, India is now seeking bidders for an even bigger contract worth almost one billion dollars, officials said on Tuesday. New Delhi earlier this month contacted four aviation firms in France, Italy, Russia and the United States, asking about their ability to supply 312 helicopters for the armed forces on an "urgent" ... more Russian arms exports to China in collapse: newspaper 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 29, 2008Russia's arms industry is suffering a near collapse in exports to China as military top brass agonise over which technology the neighbouring state should be allowed, a Russian daily reported on Tuesday. The independent newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta said that Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov would visit China to try to resolve problems in this key relationship before President Vladimir Puti ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2008US President George W. Bush warned Iran Monday that the United States will "confront those who threaten our troops" and defend its allies and interests in the Gulf. Bush, in excerpts of his State of the Union speech provided by the White House, also urged Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, embrace political reforms, and "cease your support for terror abroad." ... more Analysis: Dirty money cleanup gains speed 
Washington (UPI) Jan 28, 2008Illegal money hurts development efforts in poor countries and may be used to fund terrorism, but new cleanup efforts offer significant hope for curbing dirty money flows. A major step began last summer, when Norway requested that the World Bank conduct a study of illicit financial flows and tax havens, which Norway offered to finance. World Bank President Robert Zoellick subsequently ag ... more NATO asks Germany for rapid reaction force in Afghanistan 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 29, 2008NATO has formally asked Germany to deploy a rapid reaction force in northern Afghanistan to replace a Norwegian contingent, a defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The German government has been expecting the request and officials in Berlin suggested last week that the country would comply, despite strong opposition among the German public to its five-year-old military mission in Afgha ... more Outside View: Turks, Kurds won't fight 
Moscow (UPI) Jan 29, 2008Turkey has invaded northern Iraq, the domain of the Kurdistan Workers Party, several times. Five years ago I was in the area where fighting is now taking place. At that time small Turkish groups used to cross the border to deliver strikes on Kurdish positions. What has changed since then? Kurdish separatists are now fighting in the Kurdish areas of Turkey bordering on Iraq. Whe ... more Pakistan Front Heats Up With Missile Strikes And More 
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 29, 2008Twelve suspected militants were killed by a missile strike in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt, hours after gunmen held 300 children hostage at a nearby school, officials said Tuesday. Separately a Pakistani soldier died and five others were injured in the latest clashes between security forces and Islamist insurgents in the lawless borderlands with Afghanistan, the army said. The missile ... more |
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Troy NY (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Polyset Company have developed a new inexpensive, quick-drying polymer that could lead to dramatic cost savings and efficiency gains in semiconductor manufacturing and computer chip packaging. Along with allowing enhanced performance and cost savings for conventional photolithography processes, the new material, called polyset epoxy siloxane ... more Opening Day For A Home Of The Future 
Nottingham, UK (SPX) Jan 29, 2008The first of six properties designed to show case state-of-the-art energy efficient housing will be officially opened on Wednesday January 30 2008 at The University of Nottingham. The house built by BASF, a major supplier of raw materials to the construction industry, is part of the Creative Energy Homes Project on University Park. The project was set up by the School of Built Environment to sti ... more Bush wants climate deal that gives 'none a free ride' 
Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2008US President George W. Bush called Monday for completing an international deal aimed at cutting global-warming greenhouse gases that involves "every major economy and gives none a free ride." In his annual State of the Union speech, Bush plugged a US initiative which stresses uses of nuclear power and technology to trap emissions from coal plants that critics fear will undermine UN-led effor ... more Analysis: U.S.'s post-Bali role unclear 
The Dalles, Ore. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008For a climate-change conference, last month's U.N. meeting in Bali, Indonesia, was as uncontroversial as they come. But the dissonance in opinions of where to go from here, and what role the United States should play in post-Kyoto negotiations, more than makes up for it. Most of the players in the international climate-change arena welcomed the results of the meeting, held Dec. ... more Bacteria might be used to make natural gas 
Amherst, Mass. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008U.S. scientists said deposits of natural gas created by bacteria during the last ice age might lead to technology making natural gas a renewal resource. Steven Petsch and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts studied natural gas reservoirs in Michigan's Antrim Shale and determined carbon-hungry bacteria trapped in the rock beneath ice sheets produced the gas during the ice age ... more
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