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Pentagon under fire over war contractsWashington (AFP) Aug 29, 2011 The Pentagon has wasted more than $30 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan due to shoddy management and a lack of competition, an independent inquiry said Monday. In its final report to Congress due to be released Wednesday, the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting warns that waste and fraud have undermined American diplomacy, fomented corruption in host countries and tarnished the US image abroad. "Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted through poor planning, vagu ... read more |
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  Israeli spat blocks missile defense plan A dispute between two major defense companies has blocked the Israeli military's plans to install systems on new armored personnel carriers to knock out enemy missiles. ... more | .. |
 Pentagon under fire over war contracts The Pentagon has wasted more than $30 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan due to shoddy management and a lack of competition, an independent inquiry said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Turkish military renews raids on PKK bases in Iraq: army Turkish jets bombed bases in northern Iraq used by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a fresh campaign last week that killed as many as 160 rebels, the military said Monday. ... more | .. |
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  Gaza teen dies of wounds from Israeli raid: medics A Gaza teenager died on Monday from wounds sustained in an Israeli air strike earlier this month, bringing the death toll from the Israeli raids to 27, medics said. ... more | .. |
  Africa bombs fuel fears of jihadist spread Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb killed 18 people in the suicide bombing of an Algerian military academy Friday while two days later an increasingly aggressive jihadist group blew up U.N. headquarters in Nigeria in another suicide attack, killing 23 people. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin AMF JTRS Team Delivers Joint Tactical Radio to AFRL For C-130J And C-5 Integration Risk Reduction High-capacity, secure battlefield communications links between all elements of the U.S. military forces are one step closer to truly being connected. The Lockheed Martin team has delivered a Small A ... more | .. |
 ASC Signal Will Support L-3 Communications with Multi-Band Transportable Communications for a U.S. Government Agency ASC Signal Corporation has been awarded a multi-million dollar sub-contract by L-3 Narda Satellite Networks (L-3 Narda), to provide more than 100, 3.9-meter, quad-band, fly-away antenna components a ... more |
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Ariane 6 to deliver inaugural Galileo 2nd Gen satellites as European industry backs Arianespace
Momentus to conduct multi sensor rendezvous trial with US Air Force
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  USAF And Lockheed Martin Sign 5-Year Tri-Mode Seeker Cooperative Agreement The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Munitions Directorate and Lockheed Martin have signed a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to assess the viability of its ... more | .. |
 US Army Selects Northrop Grumman for Force Protection Contract Northrop Grumman has received an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) award from the U.S. Army to provide force protection systems and components in theater and the continental United St ... more | .. |
Cayman Islands beef up security screening Cayman Islands security authorities are beefing up customs security at all entrance points amid rising fears that criminal and narcotics gangs from other regional locations are targeting the Caribbean territory. ... more | .. |
  South Korea charges five men with spying Prosecutors charged five South Korean men, including their alleged ringleader, with spying for North Korea, the Seoul district prosecutor's office said. ... more |
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'Friends of Libya' should declare war over: Poland Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on Tuesday for the Libyan war to be declared over during an international conference of the "friends of Libya" hosted by Paris on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Iraq struggles a decade after 9/11 A decade after 9/11 attacks that set the stage for the 2003 invasion, Iraq is struggling to rebuild as dysfunctional politics, a persistent insurgency and rampant graft blunt the promise of its oil wealth. ... more | .. |
 Iran atomic chief says fuel swap talks over: IRNA Iran will no longer negotiate a nuclear fuel swap with some of the world powers, its atomic chief said on Monday, adding however that it is ready for closer cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog. ... more | .. |
Victims of Baghdad mosque attack buried Dozens gathered at Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque on Monday for the funeral of one of at least 28 people, including a lawmaker, killed in a suicide blast that has been blamed on Al-Qaeda. ... more |
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Fresh quake barrage hits Greek island Santorini
Pain, anger as Turkey marks two years since quake disaster
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Libya war yet to end, say coalition chiefs The chiefs of staff of countries militarily involved in the Libyan conflict agreed on Monday that the war in the North African country was not over yet. ... more | .. |
 NATO warplane flies over Tripoli, blasts heard A half dozen explosions were heard in the distance early Monday in Tripoli just after a NATO warplane flew over the Libyan capital. ... more | .. |
 Pakistan's 10 years of chaos The 9/11 attacks that thrust Pakistan into the war on terror have brought the nuclear-armed state to its knees, fighting Islamist radicals at home and risking pariah status abroad. ... more | .. |
 Baghdad mosque attack kills MP, 27 others An elderly bandage-swathed suicide bomber blew himself up in Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque, killing an MP and at least 27 others in an attack that was blamed on Al-Qaeda on Monday. ... more |
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 9/11 leaves a legacy of psychiatric trauma, stress The September 11 terror strikes left American psychiatrists a lasting legacy of unexpected size: thousands of people living and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, 10 years on. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Ground System Passes Launch Test for Critical Polar Orbiting Satellite The Raytheon developed Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System has achieved a major milestone on the road to NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) launch with the successful completion o ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin to Integrate TRADOC Architecture Under New $26.1M Contract Lockheed Martin's IS and GS-Defense product line will provide a host of new enterprise architecture services to the U.S. Army under a recent $26.1 million contract. Under the ITES-2 indefinite ... more | .. |
  Raytheon-Boeing Team Continues to Validate JAGM Single Rocket-Motor Solution Raytheon and Boeing have completed a second series of government-funded technology development phase tests of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile's single rocket-motor solution, designed by Boeing and i ... more |
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Google pledge against using AI for weapons vanishes
MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone
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 Lockheed Martin Introduces Virtual Capability That Connects Interpreters with Battlefield Troops Deployed U.S. and international forces battling language barriers will now be able to instantly connect to a pool of highly qualified interpretation services through a real-time, virtual capability ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Selects Courtland Manufacturing Facility For Future Standard Missile-3 Block IIB Production Lockheed Martin has selected its Courtland, Ala., facility for future production of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB (SM-3 IIB). The production facility decision will be part of the bid that Lockhee ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Third Production C-5M Super Galaxy To USAF Lockheed Martin has completed delivery of the third production C-5M Super Galaxy to the U.S. Air Force. The sixth C-5M overall to be delivered to the Air Force, this aircraft will undergo internal p ... more | .. |
 Israel 'will consider' any request for more Sinai troops Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that if Egypt asked to increase its troops in the Sinai peninsula, the request would be brought before the security cabinet, public radio said. ... more |
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Iran condemns 'Israel spy' to death Iran on Sunday sentenced to death a man accused of playing a key role in the 2010 murder of a top nuclear scientist and of spying for Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported. ... more | .. |
 Senior Iraqi Kurd calls on rebels to lay down arms The deputy chief of the most powerful political party in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has called on separatist groups in the area to lay down their arms in an interview published on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 EU, NATO refuse to recognise Abkhazia elections The European Union and NATO refused on Saturday to recognise elections in Georgia's rebel region of Abkhazia, as they reiterated their support for the territorial integrity of Georgia. ... more | .. |
Kim returns to N. Korea after Russia, China visits North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il returned to Pyongyang on Saturday, state media said, after a week-long visit to Russia and China where he expressed a willingness to return to six-party nuclear talks. ... more |
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