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Elite US cyber team courts hackers to fight terroristsLas Vegas (AFP) Aug 1, 2010 An elite US cyber team that has stealthily tracked Internet villains for more than a decade pulled back its cloak of secrecy to recruit hackers at a DefCon gathering here Sunday. Vigilant was described by its chief Chet Uber as a sort of cyber "A-Team" taking on terrorists, drug cartels, mobsters and other enemies on the Internet. "We do things the government can't," Uber said. "This was never supposed to have been a public thing." Vigilant is an alliance of slightly more than 600 volunteers ... read more |
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Seoul (AFP) Aug 2, 2010North Korea attacked a South Korean warship after the South balked at its request for economic aid in return for a proposed summit, a report said Monday. The North's request was delivered through a senior member of the South's ruling Grand National Party last December, Dong-A Ilbo newspaper reported, quoting sources familiar with Pyongyang. It said the North demanded that the South pledg ... more  
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 03, 2010A product line of automated test stations that Boeing upgraded with the ability to test high-power radar systems was recently declared ready for fleet introduction by the U.S. Navy. The Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Automated Support System (RTCASS) stations, built and designed by Boeing, are used by U.S. Marine Corps maintainers to diagnose problems with aircraft electronic sy ... more 
Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft T3 successfully completed its first flight test in Seattle on July 29. T3 is the P-8A program's mission-system and weapon-certification aircraft. During the two-hour and 48-minute flight from Boeing Field, Boeing and U.S. Navy test pilots performed airborne systems checks including engine accelerations and decelerations, autopilot flight modes, and auxiliary p ... more |
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U.S. orders new unmanned combat vehiclesWashington (UPI) Jul 29, 2010 The U.S. Army has placed orders with iRobot and Boeing for 94 small unmanned ground vehicles under a $14.6 million contract announced this week. Under the deal the companies will provide the Army with new 310 models, plus spare parts. The 35-pound unmanned robots, said Bob Dalee, robotics program manager for Boeing Network and Tectical Systems, are capable of providing the "dismounted explosive ordinance disposal technician with the ability to perform reconnaissance during extremely haza ... read more |
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