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  Buckley AFB CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 The U.S. Air Force's fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite transmitted its first images back to Earth. The milestone, known as "first light," occurred in February when the SBIRS GEO Flight-4 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, turned on its powerful sensors for the first time during space vehicle checkout. SBIRS GEO Flight-4 is the latest satellite to join the Air Force's orbiting missile warning constellation. Equipped with powerful scanning and staring infrared surveillance senso ... read more |
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Brexit prompts UK to probe developing satellite navigation systemLondon (AFP) May 1, 2018 Britain will explore developing and launching its own satellite navigation system, Downing Street announced on Tuesday, amid doubt over its future inclusion in a key European project after Brexit. ... more  
China's foreign minister in N. Korea on rare visitSeoul (AFP) May 2, 2018 Beijing hopes that talks between the United States and North Korea will be "smooth and achieve substantial progress", China's foreign minister said Wednesday during a rare visit to Pyongyang as the Asian superpower tries to mend ties with its nuclear-armed neighbour. ... more 
Iran envoy to UK warns it may scrap nuclear deal if US withdrawsLondon (AFP) May 2, 2018 Iran's ambassador to Britain said Tehran will consider walking away from the nuclear deal if the United States withdraws from the agreement, in an interview aired Wednesday. ... more 
After Obama, a Nobel prize for Trump -- or not so fast?Washington (AFP) May 2, 2018 A decade after Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, could his White House successor Donald Trump follow suit for navigating the thorny North Korean nuclear standoff? ... more |
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Lockheed Martin small Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial System upgraded with high resolution thermal imaging capabilityDenver CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 Lockheed Martin's Indago 3, a small quadrotor unmanned aerial system has been upgraded with high resolution infrared sensors capable of day or night operations. "Providing an infrared capabili ... more  
Army taps Tecmotiv USA for tank engine overhaulsWashington (UPI) May 2, 2018 Tecmotiv USA has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army for diesel powered engine. ... more  
Haiti maintains ties with Taiwan at Beijing's expensePort-Au-Prince (AFP) May 2, 2018 Haiti confirmed Wednesday it would maintain diplomatic ties with Taiwan, a day after the neighboring Dominican Republic established relations with China. ... more  
L-3 to provide sensor systems for Navy, Coast Guard vesselsWashington (UPI) May 2, 2018 L-3 Communications has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for advanced sensor systems. ... more  
Boeing awarded contract to provide Korea with Apache helicoptersWashington (UPI) May 1, 2018 Republic of Korea is set to receive 36 AH-64E Apache helicopters in a new agreement between the U.S. Army and Boeing. ... more |
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 Pentagon shells out $1.4B for services on F-35 air systems 
Nine aboard US military plane destroyed in fiery crashWashington (AFP) May 2, 2018 An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said. ... more  |
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Navy taps Boeing to support Poseidon for Australian air forceWashington (UPI) May 1, 2018 The Royal Australian Air Force is set to receive P-8A Poseidon aircrew training services in a new agreement struck between Boeing and the U.S. Navy. ... more  
In Mosul's ruins, Iraq election candidates vow bright futureMosul, Iraq (AFP) May 2, 2018 Election posters plastered on the bullet-riddled wall of a girls' school in the Old City of Iraq's Mosul pledge a better future for those casting their ballot at a nationwide vote. ... more 
US returns 3,800 smuggled artifacts to IraqWashington (AFP) May 2, 2018 US officials on Wednesday returned to Iraq 3,800 ancient artifacts that had been smuggled into the United States and shipped to a nationwide arts and crafts retailer. ... more  
US hands two planes to Chad for anti-terror campaignN'Djamena (AFP) May 2, 2018 The United States on Wednesday formally handed over to Chad two light reconnaissance aircraft intended to help its forces fight a jihadist insurgency. ... more 
French IS wife goes on trial for terrorism in IraqBaghdad (AFP) May 2, 2018 Melina Boughedir, a French citizen, was put on trial in Baghdad on Wednesday over terrorism charges for allegedly joining the Islamic State group in Iraq. ... more |
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 Buckley AFB CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force's fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite transmitted its first images back to Earth. The milestone, known as "first light," occurred in February when the SBIRS GEO Flight-4 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, turned on its powerful sensors for the first time during space vehicle checkout.
SBIRS GEO Flight-4 is the latest satellite to join the Air Force's o ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 2, 2018 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract from Missile Defense Agency for Standard Missile-3 Interceptors.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $387.1 million under the terms of a undefinitized contract action, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon award.
The agreement enables Raytheon to regularly deliver SM-3 Interceptor missiles, ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Lockheed Martin's modular unmanned vehicle control software, which can simultaneously control dozens of unmanned vehicles at one time, now has its first U.S. customer. Aurora Flight Sciences, which is focused on accelerating the development of autonomous technology, has purchased the newest Vehicle Control Station (VCS) software product: VCSi.
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 Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar (SPX) Apr 30, 2018  More than 20,000 above the Earth's surface, communication satellites orbit the planet, listening for a signal. Once they receive a signal, they repeat it and send it back down to the surface.
The U.S. Air Force uses many types of satellite communications to transmit data all around the globe. With the encryption of data, the U.S. Air Force denies prying eyes the ability to read critical in ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 2, 2018 
Tecmotiv USA has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army for diesel powered engine.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $145.6 million under the terms hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract.
The contract from U.S. Army Contracting Command enables Tecmotiv USA for the "overhaul of the air cooled, V-engine configurat ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2018 
BAE Systems this week applauded the Australian government's release of the Defense Industrial Capability Plan.
The plan, announced Monday, is billed as a critical tool for growing Australia's economy by recognizing the opportunity the defense industry can have on it's gross domestic product.
"Australia's defense industry plays a critical role in delivering the technology, innovat ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) May 2, 2018 
The EU on Wednesday announced plans to spend nearly 20 billion euros on defence over its next long-term budget, as the bloc seeks to boost its resilience to the perceived threat from Russia.
After decades of failed attempts, EU members signed a defence cooperation agreement in December, spurred to action by Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and claims of state-sponsored cyberattacks.
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Nearly a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose predicted that quantum mechanics can force a large number of particles to behave in concert as if they were only a single particle. The phenomenon is called Bose-Einstein condensation, and it took until 1995 to create the first such condensate of a gas of alkali atoms.
Although Bose-Einstein condensation has been observed ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) May 2, 2018 
Melina Boughedir, a French citizen, was put on trial in Baghdad on Wednesday over terrorism charges for allegedly joining the Islamic State group in Iraq.
The 27-year-old mother of four faces the death penalty over her alleged membership of the jihadist organisation.
Arrested in the summer of 2017 in Mosul, IS's former capital in Iraq, Boughedir was sentenced last February to seven mon ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) May 2, 2018 
Beijing hopes that talks between the United States and North Korea will be "smooth and achieve substantial progress", China's foreign minister said Wednesday during a rare visit to Pyongyang as the Asian superpower tries to mend ties with its nuclear-armed neighbour.
The two-day visit by Wang Yi - the highest-ranking Chinese official to travel to North Korea in years - follows a landmark i ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 2, 2018 
The first salvos in the budding US-China trade conflict struck old-school sectors like steel and agriculture, but Beijing is now bracing for moves against its strategic ambitions in hi-tech.
As a US trade delegation heads to Beijing for talks starting Thursday, China's race to catch up to the United States in technology looms large.
The skirmish is taking place upstream of the consumer a ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2018 
River floods are one of the most common and devastating of Earth's natural disasters. In the past decade, deluges from rivers have killed thousands of people every year around the world and caused losses on the order of tens of billions of U.S. dollars annually. Climate change, which is projected to increase precipitation in certain areas of the planet, might make river floods in these places mo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 
Astronauts from home and abroad have expressed their expectations of more international cooperation on China's space station, scheduled to become fully operational around 2022.
"We would love to have more cooperation with countries and regions devoted to peacefully using outer space, and contribute more to humankind's space exploration," said Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 2, 2018 
It was only two years ago that thousands gathered near government headquarters in the heart of Hong Kong for an energetic rally in support of independence from China.
Today such scenes are unthinkable in the semi-autonomous city as Beijing ramps up pressure on any challenge to its sovereignty.
The crackdown on independence campaigners has seen activists barred from standing for office an ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 2, 2018  A Guantanamo Bay inmate who pleaded guilty to helping plan a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker has been transferred to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The move marks the first time under President Donald Trump that a detainee has left the military prison.
"The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi from the detention facility ... 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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