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McCain wants nuclear talks with China, Russia
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008Republican presidential candidate John McCain Tuesday pledged to launch a new dialogue with China and Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and proliferation, and backed a US-India civil nuclear pact. The Arizona senator also took a fresh swipe at potential Democratic general election foe Barack Obama, over his offer to talk to the leaders of US foes like Iran, Syria and Cuba. McCain has prev ... more Raytheon Tests Distributed Common Ground System Block 10.2 System 
Garland TX (SPX) May 28, 2008Raytheon has accomplished a major requirement of the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) contract -- completing the end-to-end factory acceptance testing of the DCGS 10.2 system. During the test, Raytheon conducted a series of on-site evaluations with representatives from the U.S. Air Force exercising the system and evaluating the results. In the next phase, Raytheon will deliver the ... more RBS15 Mk3 Successfully Fired 
Vidsel, Sweden (SPX) May 28, 2008On Saturday March 15 2008 the RBS15 Mk3 was launched at the FMV test range Vidsel in northern Sweden, witnessed by government delegations from several nations such as Sweden, Germany and Poland. The missile was launched from a truck, previously belonging to the Swedish Armed Forces Coastal Missile Battery, and primed to perform a land attack mission at long range. The missile cruised over ... more Polish Ministry of Defense Deploys Savi Wireless Supply Chain Network Solution 
Mountain View CA (SPX) May 28, 2008To support NATO peace keeping objectives in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the Polish Ministry of Defense (PMD) is deploying a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based solution provided by Savi, a Lockheed Martin company, to automate tracking and management of military supplies. This marks the second largest NATO-related installation of Savi's RFID networked solution and the eighth separate defen ... more Northrop Grumman and Central Florida Join Forces For Next-Gen Optics And Photonics 
Linthicum MD (SPX) May 28, 2008Northrop Grumman has further strengthened its long-standing relationship with the University of Central Florida by forming a strategic research partnership aimed at facilitating the co-development of advanced optic and photonic technologies. Under the five-year Master Sponsored Research and License Agreement, Northrop Grumman will provide financial support and engineering expertise to the ... more |
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Arlington, Va. (UPI) May 27, 2008 Imagine that in 1902, Secretary of War Elihu Root had told U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt the difficulty of suppressing the Philippine Insurrection proved future weapons would need to be useful in conducting irregular warfare. I know, you aren't so clear on what the Philippine Insurrection was. But it was a big deal at the time: 130,000 U.S. troops were deployed in a multiyear counterinsurgency ... more Titanium doors to increase soldier safety 
Oak Ridge, Tenn. (UPI) May 27, 2008 U.S. government scientists say the next generation of combat vehicles will be equipped with titanium alloy doors to provide increased safety for soldiers. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers said the doors would be made using low-cost titanium powders in a non-melt consolidation process they developed that will reduce the amount of energy required and the cost of manufacturing tit ... more US, allies say UN report bolsters fears Iran wants nuclear bomb 
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008The United States said Tuesday that Iran's refusal to respond to queries from the UN atomic watchdog is "very troubling," warning its behavior bolstered suspicions it aimed to build a nuclear bomb. The US government, which has spearheaded toughening rounds of sanctions against Tehran, added it was studying what "diplomatic next step" to take after Monday's report from the International Atomi ... more US nuclear envoy meets NKorean counterpart in Beijing 
Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2008US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill met his North Korean counterpart on Tuesday in a bid to start working on a timeframe for Pyongyang's submission of an overdue declaration on its nuclear activities. "We discussed the need to try to work on a timeframe for the submission of the declaration, and for our own political actions that we need to take," Hill told reporters on Tuesday evening. Hi ... more Thunderstorms may add to woes of China's quake survivors 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Survivors of China's earthquake huddled inside tents near their devastated homes Tuesday as they awaited a predicted thunderstorm, wondering how they would cope. In Renjiaping, a village near the quake's epicentre in southwest China's Sichuan province, people made homeless by the disaster said their biggest concern now was rains predicted to deluge the area in the days to come. Wang Sufe ... more |
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Yokohama, Japan (AFP) May 27, 2008The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday called for swift distribution of relief aid to victims of Myanmar's killer cyclone. "Distribution needs to be more complete and quicker and scaled up even more," WFP executive director Josette Sheeran told a news conference here. "We are really hoping we will now be able to scale up ... to the level that we can reach more people more ... more Group asks Canada to halt sale of Arctic gas and oil rights 
Ottawa (AFP) May 27, 2008The World Wildlife Fund on Tuesday urged Canada to postpone the sale of oil and gas rights in the Beaufort Sea, worried the drilling areas would overlap with key Arctic habitat for polar bears and whales. "This sale is premature due to the absence of a completed Beaufort Sea management plan that would protect sensitive habitats, which polar bears, beluga and bowhead whales need for their sur ... more Connecting The Slippery Oily Dots Of The 2008 Energy Crisis 
Washington (UPI) May 27, 2008 Predatory lending in the housing market with two sets of books coupled with oil speculators who buy black gold by the hundreds of thousands of barrels a day and sit on it until they've made a pile (minimum buy on the Rotterdam spot market is 1,000 barrels), and many other sleights of hand are forcing America's airlines, once the envy of the world, to look at Chapters 7, 11 or 12 of bankruptcy ... more A Biomimetic Jumping Microrobot 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL are unveiling a novel, grasshopper-inspired jumping robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation May 21 in Pasadena, California. The robot weighs a miniscule 7 grams, and can jump 1.4 meters, or more than 27 times its body size -- ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping robot ... more Aeronautics And Astronautics Department Celebrates 50 Years In Sea, Sky, Space 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Any institution that lasts 50 years would have its share of highs and lows, but those of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford have stretched from searching out long lost wreckage at the bottom of the ocean to investigating the rarefied heights of Einsteinian physics in orbit. Roughly 500 alumni, students, faculty and staff gathered during a recent weekend to swap thos ... more
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