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LockMart Awarded THAAD Production ContractDallas TX (SPX) Apr 01, 2011 Lockheed Martin has received a production contract totaling $789.8 million to produce the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System for the Missile Defense Agency. The contract includes $694.9 million and for the production of 48 THAAD interceptors, six THAAD launchers, four fire control units and additional support equipment. An option for additional launchers in the amount of $94.8 million was also award for a total value of $789.8 million. These components will be employed by TH ... read more |
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  Northrop Grumman To Supply Bridge And Navigation Suite For Next-Gen UK Aircraft Carriers Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit has signed a full production contract for the Integrated Navigation Bridge System (INBS) for the U.K. Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Queen Elizabeth Class ... more | .. |
  LockMart Rolls Out First Special Operations MC-130J Combat Shadow II Lockheed Martin rolled out the first aircraft in a new fleet of MC-130J Combat Shadow IIs for the U.S. Air Force's Special Operations Command (AFSOC) during a ceremony. Lt. Gen. Donald C. Wurs ... more | .. |
  Household Bleach Can Decontaminate Food Prep Surfaces In Ricin Bioterrorist Attack Help for a bioterrorist attack involving ricin, one of the most likely toxic agents, may be as close at hand as the laundry shelf, according to a report presented at the 241st National Meeting and E ... more | .. |
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 Symposium Raises Awareness Of Cyberthreats To Utilities Raytheon, the Texas A and M Energy Engineering Institute and the Energy Institute of the University of Texas at Austin sponsored a Cyber Security for Utilities Symposium March 29 in Austin. Th ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman's Wins US Navy Marine Design And Engineering Services Contract Northrop Grumman subsidiary AMSEC was one of two contractors awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for marine design and engineering services in support of Puget Sound and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyards ... more | .. |
  US, Britain insert covert agents into Libya: reports The United States and Britain have inserted covert intelligence agents into Libya to make contact with rebels and to gather data to guide coalition air strikes, a report said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Years of Franco-Qatari cooperation in practice over Libya Brought together by a common cause and a shared experience, French and Qatari fighter crews are flying joint missions out of Greece to enforce the UN-mandated no-fly zone over Libya. ... more |
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  Activists defy N. Korea, launch anti-Kim leaflets South Korean activists Thursday launched tens of thousands of anti-regime leaflets across the border into North Korea, defying threats from Pyongyang to open fire on launch sites. ... more | .. |
 Kuwait trial reveals 'Iran's hidden hand' Death sentences passed on two Iranians and a Kuwaiti for spying in the Persian Gulf emirate on behalf of Tehran has heightened suspicions that Iran has had a hand in the recent political upheaval in the strategic region. ... more | .. |
  Driver killed in Pakistan attack on NATO oil tanker Gunmen in Pakistan's troubled southwest opened fire on a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing its driver and setting the vehicle ablaze, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Libya's rag-tag rebels badly need training: US US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday Libya's rag-tag rebels needed training more than guns in their battle against Moamer Kadhafi's army but that other nations should do the job. ... more |
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 Weather hampers air strikes in Libya: US admiral The US military's top officer said Thursday bad weather in Libya had hampered a coalition air campaign this week, allowing Moamer Kadhafi's forces to advance. ... more | .. |
 NATO finally takes full command of Libya campaign NATO finally took full command of all Libyan operations on Thursday, but only a minority of the 28 allied nations will conduct the bombings that had been under US leadership until now. ... more | .. |
 Choose dialogue or war, N. Korea tells South North Korea told South Korea Thursday to choose between dialogue or war, as Seoul made its first concession on aid since the North's deadly bombardment of a border island last November. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Illusions, delusions of war Wars too often are created by illusions and delusions. This is what is happening in Libya. ... more |
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Fukushima nuclear plant operator to dismantle water tanks next week
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  U.S., Italy battle for Turkish helo deal Italian and U.S. companies are battling for a multibillion-dollar contract to outfit Turkey with next-generation military helicopters. ... more | .. |
 FARC links in Ecuador raise new concerns Clandestine links between quasi-Marxist armed group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and elements in Ecuador have raised renewed concerns a week after Colombian officials declared the group's adherents might be on the run and losing their grip on the outlying rural areas. ... more | .. |
 S. American security firms heavily armed Private security firms in Latin America are the most armed with the largest weapons arsenals in that category of security industry companies worldwide, a new survey report said. ... more | .. |
  Angry Iraqis bury dead from Tikrit carnage Grieving residents of Tikrit buried their dead on Wednesday, enraged that a band of gunmen and suicide bombers had managed to breach security to launch an assault a building in which 58 people were killed. ... more |
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 China's Hu warns Sarkozy on Libya strikes Coalition military strikes on Libya could violate the "intention" of the UN resolution if civilians suffer, Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday told visiting French leader Nicolas Sarkozy. ... more | .. |
 Thailand mulls buying German subs The Thai navy plans to acquire six 3-decade-old German submarines, as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has approved in principle the $253 million purchase. ... more | .. |
 S. Korea stages live-fire drill near tense sea border South Korea's military Wednesday staged a live-fire artillery exercise on an island hit by a deadly North Korean bombardment last November, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Report: China strengthens N. Korea border fence China has reinforced fences and patrols along parts of the border with North Korea in an apparent bid to ward off a growing stream of refugees from its impoverished neighbour, a report said. ... more |
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Trump slams paper straws, vows 'back to plastic'
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EU's defence project sidelined in Libya crisis As NATO gallops into the Libyan conflict, the European Union's grand defence project is left watching from the sidelines, with little enthusiasm among EU states to kick it into high gear, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 Commentary: Saudi nukes in gulf Overlooked in the welter of fast moving events throughout the Arab world was a Saudi Arabian call for transforming the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council into "an entity identical to the (27-nation) European Union" - plus nuclear weapons. ... more | .. |
 US blacklists Belarus oil firm for Iran ties The United States on Tuesday added a Belarussian oil company to its blacklist of firms accused of flouting sanctions imposed on Iran for failing to rein in its suspect nuclear program. ... more | .. |
  US likely to help Taiwan upgrade F-16s: premier Taiwan Premier Wu Den-yih confirmed Tuesday that the United States is likely to help the island upgrade its F-16 A/B fighters as it is reluctant to arm Taipei with more advanced jets. ... more |
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 Erdogan arrives in Iraqi Kurd region Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq on Tuesday, a day after he said that Kurdish rebel bases in the territory were an obstacle to strengthening neighbourly ties with Baghdad. ... more | .. |
58 dead in Tikrit attack: Iraq police Security forces stormed the provincial council building in former dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Tuesday after an hours-long shootout with gunmen that left 58 dead and 97 wounded, a police official said. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Appoints David Ryan VP/GM Intelligence Systems Division Northrop Grumman has named David Ryan vice president and general manager of its Intelligence Systems Division, one of five divisions within the company's Information Systems sector. He reports to Li ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Appoints Kathy Warden VP/GM Cyber Intelligence Division Northrop Grumman has named Kathy Warden vice president and general manager of its Cyber Intelligence Division, one of five divisions within the company's Information Systems sector. The sector recen ... more |
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