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  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 24, 2018 The first of the CSO (Composante spatiale optique) Earth observation satellites for the French Armed Forces, has been successfully launched on a Soyuz launcher from the Kourou European Spaceport in French Guyana. CSO will provide very high resolution geo information intelligence to the French Armed Forces to its partners Germany, Belgium and Sweden. The CSO satellites are equipped with a very agile pointing system and are controlled via a secure ground control operations centre. As prime con ... read more |
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DARPA awards 6 teams during final Spectrum Collaboration Challenge QualifierWashington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2018 On December 12, DARPA held the second preliminary event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - the world's first collaborative machine-intelligence competition to overcome spectrum scarcity ... more 
Mission Success Of Falcon 9 GPS 3 SVO1 LaunchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 24, 2018 This latest successful launch by SpaceX marks two major milestones for a national security space mission - the first newly certified rocket for the Air Force in 20 years - and delivery of the first ... more  
US willing to discuss trust-building with N. Korea: envoySeoul (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 Washington is willing to discuss trust-building initiatives with Pyongyang, a US envoy said Friday, as the Trump administration tries to revive efforts to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. ... more 
Japan rebukes S. Korea for weapons radar lock on war planeTokyo (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 Japan rebuked South Korea Friday after claiming one of the country's warships had locked its weapons targeting system onto a Japanese military aircraft. ... more |
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GomSpace and ESA sign contract to initiate work on new GOMX missionAalborg, Denmark (SPX) Dec 21, 2018 GomSpace has signed a 300,000 euro development contract with ESA for the initiation of a new GOMX-5 satellite mission to demonstrate new nanosatellite capabilities for the next generation of constel ... more  
NASA industry team creates and demonstrates first quantum sensor for satellite gravimetryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 21, 2018 NASA and the Sunnyvale, California-based AOSense, Inc., have successfully built and demonstrated a prototype quantum sensor capable of obtaining highly sensitive and accurate gravity measurements - ... more 
Groundbreaking nanosatellite imaging technology will revolutionize how we manage climate changeEspoo, Finland (SPX) Dec 21, 2018 A pioneering Finnish nanosatellite has now reached space equipped with the world's smallest infrared hyperspectral camera. The photos with infrared data taken from the satellite provide new solution ... more  
US charges two Chinese over alleged state-sponsored hackingWashington (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 The United States has charged two Chinese men it says hacked the computer systems of companies and government agencies in a dozen countries, in what Washington says was a wide-reaching state-backed campaign of cyber-espionage. ... more 
'Smart' uniforms track Chinese students in truancy fightBeijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 Schools in southern China are using chip-powered "smart" school uniforms to track their students in a bid to tackle truancy and boost attendance, according to state media. ... more |
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Boston Ship Repair tapped for USNS Leroy Grumman regular overhaulWashington (UPI) Dec 20, 2018 Boston Ship Repair has been awarded a $10.96 million contract for the regular overhaul dry docking of the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman. ... more  |
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Bulgaria to start talks with US on acquiring F-16 jetsSofia (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 Bulgaria's defence ministry asked the government on Friday to start direct talks with the United States on acquiring F-16 fighter jets to replace its ageing Soviet-built MiG-29 planes. ... more 
Boeing, Sikorsky awarded $1.1B for Special Ops helicoptor supportWashington (UPI) Dec 21, 2018 Boeing Sikorsky Aircraft Support has been awarded a $1.1 billion contract for support of the Little Bird, Chinook and Seahawk helicopters of the U.S. Special Operations Command. ... more 
Raytheon to provide repairs for F/A-18 infrared targeting podsWashington (UPI) Dec 19, 2018 Raytheon has been awarded $65.6 million for repairs on the Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared systems used on the F/A-18 fighter aircraft. ... more  
Muslim Pakistan says outcry over China detention camps 'sensationalised'Islamabad (AFP) Dec 20, 2018 Pakistan on Thursday defended its close ally China against a growing outcry over Muslims who are being detained by Chinese authorities, saying the issue was being "sensationalised" by foreign media. ... more  
Order signed for US military's controversial Syria exitWashington (AFP) Dec 24, 2018 The order to withdraw American troops from Syria has been signed, the US military said Sunday, after President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart agreed to prevent a power vacuum in the wake of the controversial move. ... more |
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 Moorestown NJ (SPX) Dec 21, 2018 
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $585 million contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to design, develop and deliver its Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii (HDR-H) in Oahu, Hawaii.
The HDR-H radar will provide autonomous acquisition and persistent precision tracking and discrimination to optimize the defensive capability of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) and counter evolving thre ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2018 
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $46.5 million contract modification to Orbital Sciences Corporation, picking up an option for the company to produce 15 Lot 13 GQM-163A Coyote supersonic sea skimming target base vehicles.
One of those vehicles will be sent to the Army for use testing and evaluating the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, Limited User Test target system.
The Coy ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2018 
Drones can be used to explore environs too difficult and dangerous for humans to navigate, like a burned out building or the rubble of a collapsed bridge. But often, entrances to and passageways through these environments are quite small - holes and cracks measuring just a few inches wide.
Engineers at the University of Zurich have developed a foldable drone that can shrink itself to f ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 21, 2018  Researchers in Italy have demonstrated the feasibility of quantum communications between high-orbiting global navigation satellites and a ground station, with an exchange at the single photon level over a distance of 20,000km.
The milestone experiment proves the feasibility of secure quantum communications on a global scale, using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). It is report ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2018  BAE Systems and General Dynamics have received contracts that total more than $700 million to produce 12 prototypes of the Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle.
The contracts, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, cover middle tier acquisition and rapid prototyping effort, with plans and options for initial production. The MPF will fall under a Rapid Prototyping contracting arra ... more |
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 Montreal (AFP) Dec 17, 2018 
Canada is looking into ways to cancel a giant 2014 weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday, as criticism mounts over the kingdom's role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Riyadh-led war in Yemen.
Trudeau had earlier said that it would be "extremely difficult" to withdraw from the contract, signed by the previous conservative administration, ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
Japan's defence budget will swell to a record $47 billion for the next fiscal year, the government said Friday, as Tokyo beefs up its missile defence and deploys stealth jets in a bid to counter China.
The defence spending was part of a $912-billion national budget for the fiscal year starting in April 2019, approved by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet.
The government decided to set a ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
Thanks in part to their distinct electronic, optical and chemical properties, nanomaterials are utilized in an array of diverse applications from chemical production to medicine and light-emitting devices.
But when introducing another metal in their structure, also known as "doping," researchers are unsure which position the metal will occupy and how it will affect the overall stability of ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2018  A former security guard for the US firm Blackwater was found guilty of murder on Wednesday for his role in a notorious massacre of unarmed civilians in downtown Baghdad in 2007.
Nicholas Slatten, 35, was convicted of first-degree murder by a federal jury in US District Court in Washington after five days of deliberations.
Slatten was convicted of killing Ahmed Haithem Ahmed Al Rubia'y, 1 ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
Japan rebuked South Korea Friday after claiming one of the country's warships had locked its weapons targeting system onto a Japanese military aircraft.
South Korea's KDX-1 class destroyer locked its fire control radar on a Japanese P-1 patrol plane on Thursday off Noto peninsula in the Sea of Japan that divides the two countries, Tokyo's defence ministry said.
"It was an extremely dange ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
Siemens boss Joe Kaeser on Friday lashed out at the practices used by Chinese investors to exercise total control over foreign firms, as disquiet grows about China's appetite for German technology and know-how.
The recent ousting of robotics maker Kuka's chief executive Till Reuter two years after the prestigious German firm was taken over by Chinese group Midea, was just the latest example, ... more |
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 Narusawa , Japan (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
From his hut on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest", Kyochi Watanabe blasts John Lennon's "Imagine" into the night - hoping that music can lift people from their despair before it's too late.
The 60-year-old musician has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the vast forest's morbid reputation by reaching out to those who come to end their lives.
But now he fears his work is being ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 24, 2018 
China on 22 December successfully launched the first satellite of its Hongyun project, which seeks to create a network of communication satellites on the low Earth orbit in order to provide stable internet connection to the country's remote regions, the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) said.
The satellite was launched atop the Long March-11 rocket at 07: ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
The use of capital punishment is "declining" in China but abolition is still far away because of popular support for the death penalty, said a judge from the China's highest court.
Beijing carries out more executions each year than any other country, according to human rights groups - but the exact number is a state secret.
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 London (AFP) Dec 20, 2018  Britain has insisted "much remains to be done" in fighting the Islamic State group in Syria, amid reports Thursday it was not given prior warning of President Donald Trump's decision to pull out US ground troops.
"The global coalition against Daesh has made huge progress," said a government statement issued late Wednesday, referring to the jihadists.
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2018 
The U.S. Army is contracting Radiance Technologies for high energy laser lethality research, assessment and support in the amount of $28.2 million.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and is expected to be completed by November 2023.
It falls under a small business contract under acquisition rules, though R ... more |
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