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  Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2018 As Xi Jinping embarks on a potentially lifelong presidency, activists fear that the Chinese leader's promise of a "new era" sounds the death knell for human rights under an increasingly digital-savvy police state. The Chinese government has severely reduced space for civil liberties since Xi took power in 2012, and authorities are developing new technologies to keep the vast population in check. They include include facial recognition software as well as a "social credit" system for good behavio ... read more |
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Netanyahu says Israel will prevent enemies from obtaining nuclear weaponsJerusalem (AFP) March 21, 2018 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel will prevent enemies from obtaining nuclear weapons after its military admitted it carried out a 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor. ... more  
China's aircraft carrier sails past Taiwan as tensions riseTaipei (AFP) March 21, 2018 Taiwan said Wednesday it sent ships and planes to track a Chinese aircraft carrier which passed through the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing's leader gave the island a fierce warning against separatism and Washington expressed strong backing for Taipei. ... more  
China to build 'world's fastest' wind tunnelBeijing (AFP) March 20, 2018 China has announced it is building the world's fastest wind tunnel to develop a new generation of super-fast airplanes, but it could also be used for hypersonic missile technology. ... more  
Navy awards $80.5M in contracts for global readiness initiativeWashington (UPI) Mar 11, 2018 The U.S. Navy has awarded three contracts in support of the Global Readiness and Force Management Enterprise. ... more |
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Lockheed awarded $3.5B contract from Army for trainingWashington (UPI) Mar 16, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army for training simulators and live-fire ranges. ... more  
Raytheon contracted for Cobra Dane radar supportWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for support on the Cobra Dane radar. ... more 
Kongsberg signs long-term vehicle technology deal in QatarWashington (UPI) Mar 13, 2018 International technology company Kongsberg signed a long-term technology development program deal with Barzan Holdings for work in Qatar. ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne conducts Insensitive Explosive test for General Purpose BombsSacramento CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 An upgraded insensitive explosive developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), was recently tested by A ... more 
Northrop Grumman to provide mission module services for LCS vesselsWashington (UPI) Mar 15, 2018 Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of littoral combat ship mission modules. ... more |
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 Huntington Ingalls contracted for further repairs on USS Fitzgerald 
GenDyn contracted for components on next generation of Navy subsWashington (UPI) Mar 13, 2018 General Dynamics has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to support construction of the next four Virginia-class submarines. ... more  |
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Sierra Nevada awarded $20M for aircraft logistics support(UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Sierra Nevada Corp. was awarded a $20 million modified contract to provide logistics support for two Air Force aircraft precision strike packages of weapons and sensors. ... more 
Rolls-Royce awarded $31M contract for Osprey engines(UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Rolls-Royce was awarded a $31 million modified contract to build 14 engines for the V-22 Osprey program. ... more  
Strike near school in Syria's Idlib kills 16 children: monitorBeirut (AFP) March 21, 2018 An air strike hit near a school in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib Wednesday, killing at least 16 children, a monitoring organisation said. ... more 
Israel admits 2007 Syrian 'nuclear reactor' strike for first timeJerusalem (AFP) March 21, 2018 Israel's military admitted for the first time Wednesday it was responsible for a 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor, a strike it was long believed to have carried out. ... more 
Canada ups pressure on Iran to let environmentalist's wife leaveOttawa (AFP) March 20, 2018 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his foreign minister on Tuesday demanded that Iran allow the Canadian widow of an environmentalist who died in prison to leave the country. ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
The system of systems that enables the disparate elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to function as a complete global defense network has been revolutionized.
The modernized Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) system significantly improves collaborative Ballistic Missile Defense planning and provides global and regional combatant commands with ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2018 
Orbital Sciences Corp., has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea Skimming Target base vehicles and spares.
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $67.5 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost contract.
The agreement enables Orbital Sciences Corp., to provide the Nav ... more |
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 San Francisco, CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm building GPS technology to power a world of autonomous vehicles, has announced the release of Skylark, a new, one-of-a-kind cloud-based GNSS corrections service that delivers affordable, fast, centimeter-level accuracy and eliminates the complexity of deploying and maintaining GNSS networks. Skylark was built from the ground-up for autonomy at sc ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Our first Intelsat EpicNG satellite has been in space a little over two years now, and we have launched four more since then. With five of these high-throughput satellites (HTS) in orbit and being used by our customers, we have gained quite a bit of both test data and real-world experience demonstrating the capabilities and versatility of the EpicNG technology.
We recently published a whit ... more |
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 Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
An upgraded insensitive explosive developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), was recently tested by AFRL to support the Mk-82 500-lb. and Mk-83 1,000-lb. general purpose bombs, which are also known as BLU-111 and BLU-110, respectively.
The explosive, known as MNX-770 Mod 1, provides the same le ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) March 15, 2018 
Lebanon received increased military support from the international community Thursday with France opening a 400 million euro ($492 million) line of credit to the country's army.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri thanked Paris at an international conference held in Rome to drum up money to bolster the armed forces of the country, long a proxy battleground for its bigger neighbours.
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 Moscow (AFP) March 19, 2018 
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia would cut its military spending, a day after he won a presidential election with a landslide.
"We have plans to decrease our defence spending both this year and next. But this will not lead to any decline in the country's defence capacity," he said during a meeting with other candidates.
"We will not allow for any sort of arms race," h ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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 Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Direct international flights resumed Tuesday from Sulaimaniyah airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, a week after Baghdad lifted an almost six-month-long blockade on the region's foreign air links.
A cargo plane carrying electronic devices touched down from the United Arab Emirates, an AFP correspondent said.
It was followed by a Royal Jordanian plane, with 39 passengers on board, which took off ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for production and support of the Trident II D5, a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $522.3 million under the terms of a fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which is a modification to a previous award by the U.S. Na ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2018  Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called on the United States Tuesday to not act "emotionally" and to avoid a trade war, as President Donald Trump considers new punitive measures against Beijing.
After announcing tariffs on global steel and aluminium imports, Trump is now mulling new actions against China over its "theft" of US intellectual property.
Washington has long accused Beijing of forci ... more |
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 New York (AFP) March 21, 2018 
Comic book superheroes are coming to the rescue of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
There's Batman, and Wonder Woman, of course, and also a Puerto Rican-inspired female hero named La Borinquena. Their mission is to help reconstruct the US island territory wrecked by Hurricane Maria six months ago.
The 200-page book - entitled "Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico" - will ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 22, 2018 
The mission of Chang'e-4 lunar probe will proceed in two phases this year, and Chang'e-4 lunar probe will reach the far side of the Moon for the first time, said an official from China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
"We plan to launch Chang'e-4 lunar probe in the second half of 2018. This will be the first time for a lunar probe to land on the far side of the Moon. Chang'e-4 lunar pro ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2018 
China Wednesday announced a series of changes aimed at strengthening its global influence, including the creation of a centralised news service to better communicate the ruling Communist Party's message at home and abroad.
The changes are part of a larger overhaul of government functions that will also see an increased role for the United Front Work Department, a shadowy organisation that ha ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 15, 2018  Britain will invest 48 million pounds in a new chemical weapons defence centre and vaccinate thousands of British soldiers against anthrax, the defence minister said on Thursday after the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain.
"We are investing 48 million pounds (54 million euros, $67 million) in a new Chemical Weapons Defence Centre to maintain our cutting edge in chemical analysis a ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2018 
The US Air Force will this summer begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15 warplane, an official said Monday.
The Pentagon last year awarded a $26 million contract to Lockheed Martin for a laser program called SHiELD (Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator.)
The idea is to put a laser system on aircraft with an output of about 50 kilowatts to test their ability to zap ... more |
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