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  Washington DC (Sputnik) Nov 30, 2018 The Pentagon has spent the past few months rushing to prepare plans for an independent Space Force only to receive whole new marching orders from the White House. It looks like an independent Space Force President Trump proudly announced in June may not become a fully-fledged sixth branch of the US military. Instead, it may end up as part of the Air Force, Defense One online journal reported on Wednesday, citing well informed sources in the Pentagon. According to the publication, Penta ... read more |
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Texas A and M System Engineering Agency to Partner with PantexAmarillo TX (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Officials with The Texas A and M University System announced Thursday that Texas A and M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) will help address critical needs in the nation's nuclear weapons stockp ... more 
US says seized weapons show that Iran is a regional threatWashington (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 US officials on Thursday displayed military equipment they say confirms that Iran is increasingly supplying weapons to militants across the Middle East and is continuing its missile program unabated. ... more  
Trump sets up stormy G20 with Putin snubBuenos Aires (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 US President Donald Trump headed to Argentina Thursday for a fractious weekend of G20 summitry, cancelling planned talks with the Russian leader and boasting that his trade war with China was paying off. ... more 
China vexed by US Navy ships sailing through Taiwan StraitBeijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 China expressed concern on Thursday after two US Navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the third such operation this year. ... more |
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S. Korea successfully tests space rocket engineSeoul (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 South Korea on Wednesday successfully conducted a rocket engine test launch, officials said, paving the way for the development of its own space launch vehicle. ... more  
Fleet Space Technologies' Centauri I launched by ISROSriharikota, India (SPX) Nov 29, 2018 Fleet Space Technologies' has successfully launched its Centauri I nanosatellite aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) PSLV-C43 mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Srihar ... more  
Lockheed tapped for Onyx exoskeleton development, demonstrationsWashington (UPI) Nov 29, 2018 Lockheed Martin announced on Thursday that it has been awarded $6.9 million by the U.S. Army for development and enhancements to it's Onyx load-bearing exoskeleton for dismounted troops. ... more
Lockheed Martin Secures US Army Exoskeleton Development AgreementOrlando FL (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Lockheed Martin received a $6.9 million award from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) to enhance the ONYX exoskeleton for future soldier demonstration ... more  
Nigeria to purchase 12 Super Tucano attack aircraft from Sierra NevadaWashington (UPI) Nov 29, 2018 Sierra Nevada is receiving $329 million for 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft for the Nigerian air force. ... more |
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New SAE International committees established for aircraft hybrid electric propulsionWashington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Sky and Space Global Ltd is pleased to announce it has reached a landmark and signed a distribution agreement with Globlsat Group LLC (GlobalSat) for the provision of narrow-band telecommunications ... more  |
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Northrop Grumman, Harris partner on jammers for the EA-18 GrowlerWashington (UPI) Nov 29, 2018 Northrop Grumman is partnering with Harris and Comtech PST for the U.S. Navy's Next Generation Jammer-Low Band Demonstration of Existing Technologies program. ... more  
Iraq sentences former minister in absentia on graft chargesBaghdad (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 Iraq's judiciary on Thursday sentenced a former trade minister and two other high-ranking officials in absentia to seven years in prison each on charges of corruption. ... more  
Lebanon army 'detains several hundred Syrians' in raids on campsBeirut (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 Lebanon's army has detained around 400 Syrians in raids on refugee camps in the eastern Bekaa valley, mostly for overstaying their residence permits, a military source said Thursday. ... more 
Washington says Astana process produced Syria 'stalemate'Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 The Astana process by Russia, Iran and Turkey to end the Syrian conflict has only led to a "stalemate" in efforts to establish a constitutional committee crucial to a political settlement, the US said on Thursday. ... more 
Outgoing UN envoy rues 'missed opportunity' at Astana Syria talksAstana, Kazakhstan (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 The United Nations envoy on Syria signed off from his posting Thursday ruing "a missed opportunity" to help end the country's long conflict at talks in Kazakhstan's capital Astana. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 
The U.S. Navy will commission the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner during a Dec. 1 ceremony in Boston, Mass., at 10 a.m.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will deliver the ceremonies principal address with Hudner's widow and the wife of retired Vice Adm. Michael Miller as sponsors, the Navy announced on Wednesday.
USS Thomas Hudner is named after the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2018 
The U.S. Navy is awarding Raytheon Missile Systems is $37.3 million for repair and maintenance on SM-2 and SM-6 Standard surface-to-air missiles.
The Department of Defense, which announced the contract on Monday, has obligated $19 million in Navy 2019 operations and maintenance funding, with work expected to be finished by November 2019.
The SM-2 Standard is a series of surface-t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 
Logos Technologies announced Wednesday that it has successfully demonstrated its Redkite wide-area motion imagery sensor to representatives from defense, law enforcement and civilian agencies in The Netherlands at Bosschenhoofd airfield.
The flight is the first time the Redkite has been demonstrated for government officials, the company said.
The Redkite is built in a pod configu ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2018 
Boeing has been awarded $383.4 million from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center for the Protected Tactical Enterprise Service tactical satellite communications system.
The contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, will provide ground satellite communications designed to be highly resistant to jamming and signals interception by enemy forces.
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 29, 2018 
Lockheed Martin announced on Thursday that it has been awarded $6.9 million by the U.S. Army for development and enhancements to it's Onyx load-bearing exoskeleton for dismounted troops.
The enhancements will be for further demonstrations of the system in 2019 for the Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center. The modifications will first face evaluation by the Un ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 
Finland announced late on Thursday it will block new arms export licences to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, citing the murder of a Saudi journalist and the countries' role in Yemen's humanitarian crisis.
The suspension mirrors earlier decisions by Denmark, Norway and Germany to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia for the time being over the killing and over the kingdom's part in Yemen's war which has ... more |
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 Buenos Aires (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 
US President Donald Trump headed to Argentina Thursday for a fractious weekend of G20 summitry, cancelling planned talks with the Russian leader and boasting that his trade war with China was paying off.
Rumblings of resistance to Trump's assault on the international order were apparent as French President Emmanuel Macron said he would convene his fellow European leaders in Buenos Aires to f ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles.
The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 
Iraq's judiciary on Thursday sentenced a former trade minister and two other high-ranking officials in absentia to seven years in prison each on charges of corruption.
Investigators at the Integrity Commission said the three officials were found guilty of graft charges linked to rice imports, embezzling up to $14.3 million of public funds.
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 Amarillo TX (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 
Officials with The Texas A and M University System announced Thursday that Texas A and M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) will help address critical needs in the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile by providing technical expertise, workforce development and training at the Pantex Plant, the nation's primary facility for the final assembly, dismantlement and maintenance of nuclear weapons. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 
There is a "good possibility" President Donald Trump will reach an agreement later this week to resolve the trade dispute with China, a White House official said Tuesday.
As the trade tensions have escalated and engulfed hundreds of billions of products in retaliatory tariffs, Trump is due to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires later this week on the sidelines of the Group of 20 s ... more |
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 Zhangjiakou, China (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
A truck carrying combustible chemicals exploded at the entrance of a chemical factory in a northern Chinese city that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics Wednesday, leaving 23 people dead and 22 others injured, state media and authorities said.
The blast ignited other vehicles, leaving charred and smoking remains of trucks and cars scattered on a road as firefighters worked at the scene, acco ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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 Milan, Italy (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 
The funerary complex of the first Chinese emperor of the Qin dynasty (3th century BC) is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. This is of course due to the discovery of the statues of the terracotta army, intended to accompany the emperor in the afterlife.
Much less known than the statues is the fact that tomb proper (still not excavated) lies beneath a gigantic, artifi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 
The Pentagon warned Russia on Tuesday against interfering with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's regime-held city of Aleppo.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has accused armed groups of carrying out a "toxic gas" attack Saturday that left dozens of people struggling to breathe and prompted government ally Russia to launch retaliatory air strikes against "terr ... 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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