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Raytheon Awarded Contract To Provide Mission Support For RAID System
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jun 25, 2008Raytheon has been awarded a $76.2 million U.S. Army contract to provide mission sustainment and support for the Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment systems that protect U.S. and coalition forces in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Raytheon first developed RAID to meet the military's increasingly critical need for persistent surveillance in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi ... more USAF Nominates 114 Officers For Astronaut Training 
Randolph AFB TX (AFNS) Jun 25, 2008The Air Force Astronaut Nomination Board has forwarded 114 nominations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for consideration in the pilot and mission specialist categories. The board was held May 13 to 15 and the medical screening panel was held May 20 to 22. More than 200 noninees were considered. Forty-eight names were forwarded in the astronaut pilot category ... more Turkey, Italy launch attack helicopter project 
Ankara (AFP) June 24, 2008Turkey and Italy launched Tuesday a project for the joint manufacture of up to 91 attack helicopters for the Turkish military, worth about three billion dollars (1.9 billion euros). The project, which envisages the co-production of 50 helicopters with an option for another 41, will be led by Turkey's TUSAS, with another Turkish firm, Aselsan, and Italy's AgustaWestland joining as ... more Shared Spectrum Demonstrates Enhanced, Frequency-Agile Military Radios 
Vienna VA (SPX) Jun 25, 2008Shared Spectrum has successfully demonstrated the company's Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technology, proving its capabilities on multiple hardware platforms in harsh military mobile radio environments. The field demonstration, conducted at the Army's Yuma Proving Ground in the Arizona desert, was the latest large-scale field test of SSC's technology as part of the NeXt Generation (XG) ... more US to probe alleged Chinese-made ammunition cover-up 
Washington (AFP) June 24, 2008US and Albanian authorities announced probes Tuesday into allegations that the US ambassador to Albania concealed the Chinese origins of ammunition sent to supply Afghan security forces. The US State Department said its inspector general would conduct a "thorough, fair and transparent" internal investigation of the matter. Department spokesman Tom Casey said the ambassador, John Withers ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) June 24, 2008Germany said Tuesday it would increase its military contingent in northern Afghanistan by up to 1,000 soldiers following urgent calls from the army for reinforcements. Berlin has also faced sustained pressure from its NATO allies to step up Germany's troop presence in Afghanistan and deploy soldiers in the south to help US, British and Canadian forces fight a tenacious Taliban insurgency. ... more Analysis: Shandong buildup -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jun 24, 2008 China is building up its military forces facing South Korea, possibly to deter South Korea and Japan from aiding Taiwan. Although in many respects the situation in the Taiwan Strait appears to be improving, China's military actions do not reflect this apparent trend. In fact, China has reinforced its troops on the Shandong Peninsula, opposite South Korea, where they would engage U.S. an ... more 26 militants, two NATO soldiers killed in Afghan violence 
Khost, Afghanistan (AFP) June 25, 2008NATO warplanes and Afghan forces killed 26 militants, while two NATO soldiers died in separate attacks, officials said Tuesday. The violence made June one of the bloodiest months so far in an insurgency launched by Taliban rebels after its ouster from government by US-led forces in 2001. Several foreign militants were among the dead after the air strike early Tuesday by the NAT0-led ... more DARPA Research Project To Advance Radar And Communications Systems 
Argonne IL (SPX) Jun 25, 2008The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is providing $1.4 million to a Phase III research project led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to develop high-performance integrated diamond microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors devices (CMOS) for radar and mobile communications using an developed and patented ... more Taliban attacks up 40 percent on Afghan-Pakistan border: general 
Washington (AFP) June 24, 2008Attacks by Taliban militants on Afghanistan's border with Pakistan were up 40 percent in the first five months of 2008 compared with the same period last year, the US commander in the region told reporters here Tuesday. "We've had about a 40 percent increase in 'kinetic events': we define those as the number of enemy attacks that we've had on our coalition and our Afghan partners," US Army ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 24, 2008China hopes to turn a dangerous "quake lake" that once threatened up to 1.3 million lives into a tourist spot as part of rebuilding efforts in its quake-hit southwest, state press said Tuesday. The Tangjiashan lake was the biggest of several lakes created when the May 12 earthquake struck Sichuan province, triggering landslides that blocked rivers and led to the build up of large bodies of ... more Bangladesh steps up earthquake response plans 
Dhaka (AFP) June 24, 2008The earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province last month has prompted Bangladeshi authorities to step up contingency plans in the quake-prone South Asian nation, an official said Tuesday. Fire Service and Civil Defence director major Motihur Rahman told AFP that 62,000 volunteers would be trained to deal with quakes and other natural disasters. "We've seen the damage caused by ... more Growth Of Global Wind Energy Generation Outpaced Total Global Energy Generation 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jun 25, 2008Utility companies have largely fallen behind the curve on renewable generation and are now increasingly applying global strategies to leverage major renewable growth opportunities at a time of record valuations in the sector. The Renewables Landscape - Wind at the Threshold, is a report that analyses the current wind power generation landscape across key European and world markets. ... more AMEC Paragon Contributes To Installation Of Chevron's Takula Gas Processing Platform 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2008AMEC has announced that subsidiary AMEC Paragon made significant contributions to the successful installation of the Takula Gas Processing Platform (TGPP), which recently has been completed in Block 0 offshore Angola. Located in approximately 186 feet (57 meters) of water, TGPP is the newest platform to be installed by Chevron subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC) for the ... more Analysis: Bush pressed on Iraqi oil deals 
Washington (UPI) Jun 24, 2008 U.S. congressional leaders are pressing the Bush administration to block deals to be signed between the Iraqi federal government and the world's largest oil companies and to cancel deals between the Iraqi Kurdish region and smaller U.S. oil firms. Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., John Kerry, D-Mass., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., want the United States to dam negotiations on contracts the ... more
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