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Arms Control Groups Tell Congress To Reject New Nuclear Warhead
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Twenty-eight arms control advocacy and religious organizations have called for a key House committee to stop the administration from building a new nuclear weapon. In a letter to the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee organized by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), the groups warned that support for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program would serious ... more Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan 
Kabul (AFP) April 16, 2008Two NATO soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the force said, as violence continued unabated in the restive region. In a separate incident, one Afghan policeman and five Taliban rebels including a local commander were killed in a clash in Zabul province, police said. The latest casualties come three days after two British ... more Raytheon Wins Contract For Global Positioning Receivers 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Raytheon has won a $61 million U.S. Air Force contract to complete the development and certification of next-generation global positioning receivers. The contracting agency is the Global Positioning System Wing at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles. Under the Modernized User Equipment program, the circuit card technology will connect military users with new ... more Raytheon Demonstrates Gallium Nitride Advantages In Radar Components 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Raytheon is developing transmit-receive modules based on the advanced semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) for use in future radar upgrades. "This transmit-receive module demonstration and parallel reliability testing show that GaN will soon be ready to take over where increased power and advanced capabilities are needed," said Mark Russell, vice president of Engineering at Raytheon Integrated ... more Iraq removes Iraqi army, police chiefs of Basra 
Baghdad (AFP) April 16, 2008Iraq on Wednesday removed the Iraqi army and police commanders in the southern city of Basra, weeks after a crackdown on Shiite militiamen set off fierce firefights across the country. Iraqi army Lieutenant General Mohan al-Fraiji and police chief Major General Abdul Jalil Khalaf have been replaced by two other commanders, the Iraqi army spokesman in Baghdad, Major General Qassim Atta, told ... more |
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Moscow, April 15, 2008 U.S. President George Bush said last week that "significant progress" has been achieved in the past year in stabilizing Iraq. He made the statement April 10, the day after the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, and following congressional testimony from top U.S. officials about the situation in Iraq. His comments were accompanied by continuing news reports on new clashes and act ... more Outside View: ABMs for Europe -- Part 2 
Moscow, April 16, 2008 There are some political and economic obstacles on the road to creating an effective ballistic-missile defense system for Europe. NATO members cannot agree what companies should supply the hardware -- radars for reconnaissance, detection and tracking, and for guidance of air-defense systems. Those in charge of the NATO BMD project cannot decide what air-defense systems they should buy ... more LockMart Receives Contract For UK Trident Missile Program 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a one-year, $15.5-million contract for continued program management and engineering services for the United Kingdom's Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) program. The Royal Navy's Trident II D5 missiles, which are built by Lockheed Martin, are deployed aboard British-built Vanguard-class Trident ballistic missile submarines. "In concert ... more Foreign powers mull 'incentives' for Iran during nuclear talks 
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2008Talks in China on Iran's nuclear program are focusing on possible "incentives" rather than purely punitive measures against Tehran, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday. Representatives for the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, China and the European Union are -- "following up on the recommendations of the foreign ministers to look at the incentive ... more Czech bookmaker takes bets on vote over US radar 
Prague (AFP) April 16, 2008A Czech bookmaker started taking bets Wednesday on whether a plan to site a US anti-missile radar in the country will be approved by parliament. "We started taking bets on whether the lower house will approve the radar or not," spokesman for the Fortuna chain of bookmakers, Tomas Grombir, told AFP. The company is offering the same odds of 1.8:1 on a vote for or against the radar, which ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The Cleantech Group at Heslin Rothenberg Farley and Mesiti P.C. continues to monitor Intellectual Property trends in the Cleantech arena. In addition to its signature Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, the Group has analyzed litigation trends in the clean energy area and has found that litigation has proliferated over the last several years. Issued patents are one indicator of innovation ... more Hydroprocessing Technology Could Lead The Way For Global Bio Jet Fuels 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Apr 17, 2008This Frost and Sullivan research titled Global Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Market A Strategic Overview provides a strategic and analytical insight into the alternative aviation fuel market in commercial aviation that is poised to rise. It also points out the most prospective aviation fuel that is feasible for the market. In this research, Frost and Sullivan's expert analysts ... more Historic Alliance Calls For A National Task Force On Carbon Capture And Storage 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 17, 2008In an historic alliance, industry, union and environment organisations have called on the Federal Government to establish a National Carbon Capture and Storage Taskforce to combat climate change. The new taskforce, proposed by the Australian Coal Association (ACA), CFMEU, The Climate Institute (CI), and WWF, would be charged with developing and implementing a nationally coordinated plan to ... more Analysis: Reps. want old FutureGen back 
The Department of Energy's new plans for the FutureGen project -- a 5-year-old initiative to develop clean-coal technology -- look fishy, policymakers said Tuesday. President Bush launched the program in his 2003 State of the Union address as part of an effort to increase research and development of carbon capture and sequestration technologies in the United States. CCS technology, if ... more Analysis: Iraq oil law a deal -- spokesman 
Washington, April 16, 2008 Iraq's central and Kurdish region governments have reached a deal on an oil law, including a method for weighing the validity of the oil deals the Kurds have signed with foreign firms, the top government spokesman told United Press International. Ali al-Dabbagh said an agreement has also been made on the classification and funding for the Kurds' security forces, the Peshmerga, which ... more
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