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Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2008 There are two serious splits in the alliance ahead of this week's NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, and the Russians are cleverly playing one against the other to exploit the differences between the United States and its European allies. Managing this will be one of the most complex international challenges President George Bush has faced because everything will hinge on his own personal ... more SAIC Delivers Infrared Sensor For Risk Reduction - Alternative Infrared Satellite System 
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2008Science Applications International announced that it has delivered its infrared sensor for the Risk Reduction - Alternative Infrared Satellite System program ahead of schedule. RR-AIRSS is sponsored by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center and executed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The program aims to prove ... more Northrop Grumman To Supply Platform Management System For Royal Navy's Next Astute-Class Submarine 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Northrop Grumman has been chosen to provide the Platform Management System (PMS) for the next Royal Navy Astute-Class submarine, HMS Audacious. BAE Systems has selected Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit as the preferred bidder to supply the PMS for the fourth Astute-Class submarine. The PMS will control and monitor platform machinery and on board systems. Based on Sperry ... more Northrop Grumman Names Terri Zinkiewicz VP Sector Controller For Its Space Technology Sector 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Northrop Grumman has appointed Terri Zinkiewicz vice president and sector controller in recognition of the position's expanding role as the company implements the previously announced realignment of the reporting of its missiles business from the Mission Systems sector to the Space Technology sector here. The missiles business includes the inter-continental ballistic missile Prime ... more Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Sets 33-Hour Flight Endurance Record 
San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk set an endurance record for a full-scale, operational unmanned aircraft on Saturday, March 22, 2008, when it completed a flight of 33.1 hours at altitudes up to 60,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. "It was a picture perfect flight, landing flawlessly on centerline with enough fuel remaining to continue for two more hours," said Jerry Madigan, North ... more |
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Buffalo NY (SPX) Apr 01, 2008Whether it's springtime flooding, an infectious disease outbreak or a volcanic eruption, small or rural communities affected by natural disasters often suffer additional hardship because of their size, say organizers the of "Natural Disasters in Small Communities: How Can We Help?" conference. The conference was open to faculty, students, researchers and all stakeholders in the consequence ... more World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change 
Jakarta (AFP) April 1, 2008Once a golden promise in the fight against climate change, biofuels are fast losing their lustre as high demand for essential crops drives land clearing and pushes up the price of food. Biofuels made from food crops such as corn, sugar, soybeans and oil palm burn cleaner than fossil fuels, but experts say high demand is sending ripples through the world economy, and could be doing the ... more With Ambitious EU Legislation, Wind Energy Can Provide Huge Benefits To Europe 
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Apr 02, 2008"Wind has delivered the most promising results out of all renewable energy technologies so far, with 57 GW of total capacity installed in the EU by the end of 2007. In order to ensure that this trend continues, we need to have a secure and favourable EU legislative framework", EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs told delegates at the opening session of the European Wind Energy Conference ... more Building A Better Gas Turbine 
Abu Dabi, UAE (SPX) Apr 02, 2008Could combustion without flames be used to build industrial gas turbines for power generation that are much more efficient than current models and produce almost no polluting emissions? Researchers in the Middle East provide a possible answer in the current issue of the Inderscience publication, International Journal of the Environment and Pollution. Mohamed Sassi of The Petroleum Institute ... more Indonesia's palm oil boom takes environmental toll 
Kuala Cenaku, Indonesia (AFP) April 1, 2008Marto Wijoyo and his family left the overcrowded Indonesian island of Java 27 years ago in search of a better life on neighbouring Sumatra. The government had given Wijoyo, now 60, a tract of fertile land to plant with rice and a home to call his own as part of a plan to ease Java's population pressures. Soon, he was producing twice-yearly harvests of more than ten tonnes of rice. Life ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 01, 2008The launch of a modified Zenit rocket to put an Israeli communications satellite into orbit has been scheduled for April 24, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Monday. Russia started preparations for the launch of a Zenit-3SLB rocket with a DM-SLB booster and Israeli AMOS-3 satellite on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in October last year. "This weekend ... more Fuel Cell Vehicles Are The Best Pathway To Environmental And Energy Security 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2008Fuel cells and hydrogen fuel are the only motor vehicle technology option that will respond effectively to global warming during this century, according to a new analysis by a Washington expert in alternative fuels. "The hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle is the only option that can achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse gases by 60% or more below 1990 levels in the transportation sector," ... more VeraSun Energy To Pass One Billion Gallons Of Ethanol Production Capacity 
Brookings SD (SPX) Apr 01, 2008VeraSun Energy has announced the startup of its 110 million gallon per year production facility located near Bloomingburg, Ohio. With the closing of the merger between VeraSun and US BioEnergy becoming effective April 1, 2008, the Bloomingburg biorefinery represents the 11th VeraSun facility in operation, pushing the company's annual operating capacity to more than one billion gallons. ... more Qaeda in Yemen says it attacked foreign oil assets: SITE 
Dubai (AFP) March 31, 2008Al-Qaeda's wing in Yemen has said it carried out separate attacks on a French oil pipeline and a Chinese oilfield last week in Yemen, web monitoring group SITE said on Monday. The attackers, calling themselves the Jund Al-Yemen Brigades claimed they detonated a timed explosive Thursday on a pipeline belonging to France's Total in the western Saah district, the SITE Intelligence Group reported ... more New Colorado - Wyoming Transmission Offering 
Cheyenne WY (SPX) Apr 01, 2008A new transmission line connecting the Front Range of Colorado with the wind-rich high plains of eastern Wyoming is planning to offer capacity rights in an open auction in June 2008. The Wyoming-Colorado Intertie Project has announced its time line for an Open Season auction for up to 900 MW of transmission capacity between the two states. If the auction is successful the project ... more
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