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Raytheon Awarded Ship Electronics Systems Contract For LPD 25
Tewksbury MA (SPX) May 09, 2008MassRaytheon has been awarded a $32 million contract to develop and integrate the total ship electronics systems for LPD 25, the ninth ship of the U.S. Navy's LPD 17 class of expeditionary warfare ships. Under the contract, awarded by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems extends its role as the total ship electronics systems integrator for all LPD 17-class ships. ... more First Boeing P-8A Poseidon Gets Its Wings 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 09, 2008Boeing joined the wing assembly and fuselage of the first P-8A Poseidon for the U.S. Navy on May 1 in Renton, Wash. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) and Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) are working together to build the P-8A, a military derivative of the 737-800, on a new final assembly line. The factory's third line takes advantage of the proven efficiencies, manufacturing process ... more Boeing Provides New Test Facility For Next-Gen Radar Technology 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 09, 2008Boeing has dedicated a new test and evaluation facility in Huntington Beach, Calif., that provides the technology and capability to support both current and future radar-based weapon systems. The Dynamic Advanced Radar Test (DART) facility represents a $10 million investment for the company. "DART is a one-stop, full-service facility to support design, development and qualification testin ... more Raytheon To Provide Communications Solutions For Joint Tactical Radio System 
Fort Wayne IN (SPX) May 09, 2008Raytheon will provide a critical communications solution for the Department of Defense's Joint Tactical Radio System. JTRS is the next generation of radios for the U.S. military. Raytheon will be a subcontractor on the $766 million JTRS Airborne, Maritime and Fixed contract, which was awarded to Lockheed Martin in March 2008. The AMF domain will provide network and interoperable communica ... more Nuclear missiles parade across Red Square 
Moscow (AFP) May 9, 2008Nuclear missiles and tanks paraded Friday across Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era but new President Dmitry Medvedev warned other nations against "irresponsible ambitions" that he said could start wars. Marching bands and 8,000 troops goose-stepped across the square, followed by a huge display of heavy weapons including Topol-M ballistic missiles and T-90 tanks, and a fly-by ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) May 10, 2008A US envoy on Saturday returned from North Korea, bringing back documents about the communist state's nuclear activities in what Washington described as an important first step for verification. Sung Kim, director of the State Department's Korea office who led a delegation to the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Thursday, returned to the South by land through a joint security area known as ... more Russian general slams NATO practice 'attacks' over Arctic: report 
Moscow (AFP) May 10, 2008NATO planes regularly undertake "dangerous" practice attacks against Russian bombers patrolling the Arctic Ocean, the head of the Russian air force was quoted as saying Saturday. "Regularly as our flights are fulfilling combat patrols, we are tracked by planes from the patrol forces of both NATO and other countries," General Alexander Zelin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. ... more Pakistan test-fires nuclear-capable cruise missile: military 
Islamabad (AFP) May 8, 2008Pakistan on Thursday successfully tested a ground-hugging cruise missile capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads, the military said. The Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad) missile, developed exclusively for launch from the air, has a range of 350 kilometres (217 miles), a statement said. "It has enabled Pakistan to achieve a greater strategic stand-off capability on land and at sea," i ... more Israel will not tolerate nuclear Iran: Olmert 
Washington (AFP) May 9, 2008Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his warning that the Jewish state will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, but expressed hope the international community would be successful in checking Tehran's nuclear ambitions. "Yes, Israel will not tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of people who say openly, explicitly and publicly that they want to wipe Israel off the map. Why should w ... more EU satellite imagery experts will seek to solve Georgia drones row 
Brussels (AFP) May 9, 2008Experts from the EU Satellite Centre in Spain will travel to Georgia to help investigate recent incidents involving Georgian drones overflying the rebel region of Abkhazia, an EU spokeswoman said Friday. "An expert mission should leave this weekend, at the request of the UN department for peacekeeping operations," Cristina Gallach, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, told ... more |
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Prague (AFP) May 11, 2008Neither the Czech Republic nor the United States have made provisions for permanent Russian inspectors at their joint anti-missile radar project, a junior government minister said Sunday. Czech deputy defence minister Martin Bartak told Czech public television that while an agreement between Prague and Washington mentions inspections, is says nothing about a permanent presence of inspectors ... more Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq: army 
Ankara (AFP) May 11, 2008Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq, killing an unknown number of militants in the latest in a series of air strikes in the region, the Turkish army said Sunday. The "intensive" bombing in the Avasin-Basyan region on Saturday targeted a group of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants who retreated there after taking part in a deadly attack on a Turkis ... more New Disaster Preparedness Strategy Announced 
Washington DC (SPX) May 09, 2008In an unprecedented initiative, US and Canadian experts have developed a comprehensive framework to optimize and manage critical care resources during times of pandemic outbreaks or other mass critical care disasters. The new proposal suggests legally protecting clinicians who follow accepted protocols for the allocation of scarce resources when providing care during mass critical care eve ... more USGS Awards Satellite Imagery Contracts: Enhancing Access To Users 
Reston VA (SPX) May 09, 2008The United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced the award of three multi-year acquisition contracts for high and moderate-resolution satellite imagery to GeoEye of Dulles, VA, DigitalGlobe of Longmont, CO and SPOT Image Corporation of Chantilly, VA. The contracts will to provide the USGS and other Federal agencies access to commercial satellite data from the U.S. and international mar ... more Myanmar's generals amass fortunes while country flounders 
Bangkok (AFP) May 11, 2008A sprawling new capital dubbed the "Abode of Kings", lavish weddings for family members, palatial villas -- Myanmar's ruling generals appear to have few qualms about spending money. But as the death toll from the catastrophic cyclone mounts and up to two million people wait for food, water and medicine, precious little of their resources have been devoted to the relief effort. The regime ... more
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