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  Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a nine month, $25.5 million contract extension to continue development of its Low Power Laser Demonstrator (LPLD) missile interceptor concept. This program, awarded Aug. 31, builds on a 2017 contract to develop an initial LPLD concept. Lockheed Martin's LPLD concept consists of a fiber laser system on a high-performing, high-altitude airborne platform. LPLD is designed to engage missiles during their boost phase - the short window after launch - w ... read more |
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NATO urges Russia to comply by nuclear treatyBrussels (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 NATO on Wednesday urged Russia to comply fully with a Cold War nuclear weapons treaty after US President Donald Trump announced he wanted to pull out of the deal. ... more 
N. Korea readying nuclear site for inspectors: S. Korea reportSeoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 South Korea's spy agency has detected signs that Pyongyang is preparing to allow international inspectors to visit its nuclear and missile test sites, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday. ... more 
S. Korea president says North's Kim to visit Seoul 'soon'Seoul (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Seoul "soon", the South's President Moon Jae-in said Thursday, amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula despite stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington. ... more  
Australia warns against US-China tensionsSydney (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 China's rising and "unprecedented influence" in the Indo-Pacific region will challenge American interests, but confrontation must not define relations between the two powers, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned Thursday. ... more |
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Swiss backtrack on selling weapons to conflict statesGeneva (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 The Swiss government on Wednesday reversed a decision to loosen restrictions on weapons exports to countries wracked by internal conflict following outcry over the planned move. ... more  
US must prepare to go on offensive in space says MattisWashington DC (Sputnik) Nov 01, 2018 The US armed forces must utilize the framework of their new Space Command, announced earlier this year by President Donald Trump to go on the offensive to maintain military supremacy in the heavens, ... more  
Boeing to deliver Harpoon missile to Navy, multiple countriesWashington (UPI) Oct 31, 2018 Boeing received an award for $244 million from the U.S. Navy to procure long lead material for Harpoon full-rate production Lot 91 in support of multiple Foreign Military Sales customers ... more  
Kymeta demonstrates hybrid data backhaul on cellular and satellite networksRedmond WA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 In September 2018, Kymeta-the communications company making good on the promise of global, mobile connectivity-conducted a series of field trials with United States federal agents to successfully de ... more  
Chinese-style 'digital authoritarianism' grows globally: studyWashington (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China's model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. ... more |
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BAE lands $72M award to support Navy air traffic controlWashington (UPI) Oct 31, 2018 BAE Systems received a contract to deliver air traffic control and landing systems services to U.S. Navy ships and facilities. ... more  |
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US shifts on Yemen as toll mounts and Saudi alliance faltersWashington (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 The surprise US call for a ceasefire in Yemen marks a growing sense that Saudi Arabia's campaign has proven disastrous, but experts say more action is needed to end the devastating war. ... more  
Brazil's next defense minister wants snipers to take out criminalsRio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 The army general tapped by Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to be defense minister said Wednesday that snipers should be deployed to take down armed criminal suspects. ... more  
Kabul control slips, Afghan force losses at record: US watchdogWashington (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Kabul's control of Afghanistan slipped in recent months as local security forces suffered record-level casualties while making minimal or no progress against the Taliban, a US government watchdog said Thursday. ... more 
French jihadist mothers in Syria face terrible choiceParis (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 For dozens of French women detained in Syria, an impossible choice looms: keeping their children in a war zone, or sending them home knowing they might never see each other again. ... more 
US transferring IS suspects from Syria to Iraq: HRWBeirut (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 US forces have been handing over suspected jihadists captured in Syria to the authorities in Iraq, where they face torture and botched trials, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 29, 2018 
Raytheon's Standard Missile-3 Block IIA variant anti-ballistic missile system completed a second round of successful tests for the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency.
Crew members on the USS John Finn on Friday launched the SM-3 Block IIA missile to successfully destroy a a land-launched target that resembled a ballistics missile.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 31, 2018 
Boeing received an award for $244 million from the U.S. Navy to procure long lead material for Harpoon full-rate production Lot 91 in support of multiple Foreign Military Sales customers
The firm-fixed-price contract was announced Tuesday by the Defense Department.
To date, Boeing has delivered more than 7,000 Harpoons to armed forces in more than 30 countries, according to the B ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
An S-76B commercial helicopter flew over a small crowd gathered at Fort Eustis, Virginia, landed in an adjacent field after adjusting to miss a vehicle, and rose up to hover perfectly motionless for several minutes. The mid-October demonstration was remarkable because the pilot carried out the maneuvers using supervised autonomy in an aircraft equipped with DARPA's Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Autom ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 25, 2018 
United Launch Services, a part of the United Launch Alliance, has received an award for $152.4 million to provide heavy launch services for the U.S. Air Force.
Under the terms of the firm-fixed-price contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, ULA will support the National Reconnaissance Office Launch Mission One launch of the Delta IV rocket.
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
New research focusing on how brain structure may impact brain activity and ultimately human behavior could one day lead to technology that can be catered to an individual Soldier in a training environment or operational setting.
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University at Buffalo are developing a new tool - computational models of the brain - to learn more about ... more |
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 Bratislava (AFP) Oct 26, 2018  French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday brushed off pressure to halt lucrative arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying such calls were "pure demagoguery".
Sales of weapons to Riyadh - France's second biggest customer after India - have "nothing to do with Mr Khashoggi. One shouldn't mix everything up," Macron told a press conference during a visi ... more |
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 Manama (AFP) Oct 27, 2018 
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe would visit Washington next week, following tensions between the two powers.
"I would just point out that (our) strategic competition does not imply hostility," Mattis said at a Middle East security conference in Bahrain, in response to a question about tensions.
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
Applied research is not always initiated by industry - but oftentimes it yields results that can swiftly be implemented by companies. A prime example can be seen on the Empa campus in Thun: Tiny watch springs are on display at the Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures. These springs - the beating heart of every mechanical clock - are not your usual components. They are not mad ... more |
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 Mehran, Iran (AFP) Oct 29, 2018 
A 15-minute walk from the Iraqi border in the west Iranian town of Mehran, three young clerics are hard at work polishing the shoes of pilgrims.
Farther down the road another cleric stands on a chair holding a Koran over the heads of passing crowds, blessing them as they march in the thousands towards the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, central Iraq.
A tailor is also working diligent ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
The EU on Wednesday condemned a foiled "attack" in Denmark blamed on Tehran but insisted the incident should not undermine Europe's support for the beleaguered Iran nuclear deal.
Copenhagen recalled its ambassador to Tehran for consultations after Danish intelligence accused Iran of planning an attack in Denmark against three Iranians - an allegation denied by the Islamic republic.
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 Shanghai (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
President Xi Jinping opens a huge Shanghai import fair next week at which armies of Chinese companies will shop for billions of dollars in foreign goods as China seeks to counter charges that its markets aren't open.
But not everyone is buying it.
China's trade war adversary, the United States, is pointedly snubbing a gathering that will draw several overseas leaders, and foreign busines ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 
The number of active-duty troops the Pentagon is sending to the US border with Mexico will swell beyond the figure of more than 5,000 announced this week, a top general said Tuesday.
US authorities on Monday said more than 5,200 troops would head south to bolster border security, in a bid to prevent a caravan of Central American migrants from illegally crossing.
General Terrence O'Shaug ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 
When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets.
Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable sate ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 
Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama's right-hand diplomat who helped build the Tibetan leader's clout in Washington but came away empty from years of talks with China, has died, colleagues said. He was 69.
The International Campaign for Tibet, which Gyari once headed, said he died Monday in San Francisco after a battle with hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer.
A jovial former journal ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 
The army general tapped by Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to be defense minister said Wednesday that snipers should be deployed to take down armed criminal suspects.
His comments came after the far-right governor-elect of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel, met with criticism after announcing he would deploy police snipers to shoot suspects even if officers' lives are not in da ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a nine month, $25.5 million contract extension to continue development of its Low Power Laser Demonstrator (LPLD) missile interceptor concept. This program, awarded Aug. 31, builds on a 2017 contract to develop an initial LPLD concept.
Lockheed Martin's LPLD concept consists of a fiber laser system on a high-performing, high-altitude airbo ... more |
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