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USAF Awards Raytheon Paveway II Laser Guided Bomb Contract
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Raytheon was awarded a $31.6 million U.S. Air Force competitive contract for Paveway II laser guided bomb components for fiscal year 2008. Raytheon will provide the Air Force with LGB computer control groups and air foil groups that transform "dumb" bombs into precision guided munitions. Raytheon received the maximum award possible for the computer control group portion of the contract. ... more Improvements In Thermal Management Of Future Electronics 
Linthicum MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Northrop Grumman has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate an ultra high capacity hybrid thermal ground plane needed to overcome heat-related challenges in semiconductors employed in electronic systems. High thermal temperatures are a key barrier in the development of next-generation military electronics, such as high-power radars ... more Raytheon AMRAAM Contract Enables Warfighters To Maintain Air Superiority 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 05, 2008The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon a $412 million contract for Lot 22 production and delivery of the AIM-120C7 and AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles. The firm fixed price contract will provide the U.S. military with AIM-120D missiles. It will also provide Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers with AIM-120C7 missiles. Delivery is scheduled to begin in 2010 and continue ... more Boeing Submits Combat Aircraft Industrial-Participation Proposal To Indian Government 
New Delhi, India (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Boeing has submitted a comprehensive Industrial Participation (IP) proposal to the government of India in support of the company's Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) offer to the Indian air force of 126 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The proposal was submitted in response to the MMRCA Request for Proposals, which asked all competitors to provide an IP plan as part of their offering. ... more USCG Cutter Bertholf Commissioned In Alameda 
Alameda CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008The Northrop Grumman-built National Security Cutter USCGC Bertholf has been commissioned on the U.S. Coast Guard's birthday, becoming the service's most capable and technologically-advanced maritime asset in its 218-year existence. "I know firsthand that the ship we commissioned is the most capable ship that the Coast Guard has ever sailed," said Rep. Elijah Cummings from Maryland's ... more |
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Brussels (UPI) Aug 4, 2008 Finmeccanica, the Italian defense and aerospace giant, has reported a 68 percent increase in its first half net profits over last year's numbers. This year's H1 profit was $463 million, which easily trumped last year's $276 million. Finmeccanica expects its revenues to grow a further 6 percent to 11 percent by the end of the year. ... more Zawahiri not believed to be dead or wounded: US intelligence 
Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2008US intelligence has no reason to believe Al-Qaeda's number two was killed or wounded in a recent missile attack in Pakistan, US officials said Monday. CBS News reported Friday that it had obtained an intercepted message from a Taliban commander urgently requesting a doctor to treat Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian believed to be Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's right-hand man. "There is ... more Big powers renew sanctions threat on Iran 
Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2008The six powers holding nuclear talks with Tehran threatened Monday to pursue new punitive action against Iran if it does not accept their offer of incentives to freeze uranium enrichment operations. Britain said Iran would face new UN sanctions unless it gives a response by Tuesday to the offer, a British Foreign Office spokesman said. "We will be disappointed if there (is) no response ... more 'Durable security' near in violent Baghdad district: US commander 
Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2008A US brigade commander in what was one of the most violent sectors of Baghdad just months ago said Monday he now believes US and Iraqi forces are "on the cusp of achieving durable security." Colonel Ted Martin tied the turnaround in Baghdad's Rashid district to a "decisive defeat" of Iranian-backed Shiite forces in May and June. Since then, he said there has been a dramatic drop in level ... more Iran hails successful test of new anti-ship missile 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 4, 2008Iran said on Monday that it had successfully testfired an anti-ship missile with a range of 300 kilometres (180 miles) that it had developed with homegrown technology so far unused by any other country. "No enemy vessels would be able to escape it within a 300-kilometre radius from the borders of Iran," the commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said on ... more |
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London (AFP) Aug 4, 2008World oil prices were mixed on Monday amid fresh worries about Iran's disputed nuclear programme and a new storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, traders said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for September delivery, fell 16 cents to 124.94 dollars a barrel in electronic trading, reversing earlier gains. Brent North Sea crude for September delivery rose 10 cents to 124.28 dollar ... more Enable IPC To Develop Enhanced Clean Energy Ultracapacitors 
Valencia CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Marking a major milestone with the first commercial use of its breakthrough ultracapacitor nanotechnology, Enable IPC has announced that it has partnered with the Madrid, Spain-based IMDEA Energy Institute to jointly develop ultracapacitors based on Enable IPC's patent-pending energy technology. The initial project for this venture will be to incorporate Enable IPC's ultracapacitor into ... more Intel reveals design for fast, efficient future chips 
San Francisco (AFP) Aug 4, 2008Intel on Monday revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video game lovers, multi-taskers, and people that want power-sipping computers adapted to increasingly mobile lifestyles. The world's largest chip maker provided a glimpse of "multi-core" computer processing technology codenamed "Larrabee" that it plans to showcase next week at an industry conference in Los Angeles. ... more Argonne Scientists Discover New Class Of Glassy Material 
Argonne IL (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out. Dynamic frustration has been found to be the cause of glassy behavior in materials that previously had none of the features of a normal glass. "This has been a puzzle for 10 years now," Argonne physicist Raymond Osborn said. ... more ATA Calls For Staggered Release Of Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 05, 2008The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the U.S. airlines, has testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on the critical importance of tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to help bring immediate relief to consumers and businesses suffering from high fuel prices. ATA is calling for a release of ... more
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