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  Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2019 Britain's Defense Ministry has awarded a $1.2 million contract for satellite antennas as an alternative to the Galileo satellite constellation project because of its impending departure from the European Union. Oxford Space Systems, a startup, was awarded the contract for a lightweight "wrapped-rib" that can be transported to space more efficiently at a lower cost, the ministry said in a news release Monday. Britain has contributed $1.6 billion in funding for the satellite program, inclu ... read more |
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Iran still adhering to nuclear deal: CIA chiefWashington (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 Iran is still abiding by the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal despite the US pullout from the multinational agreement, Central Intelligence chief Gina Haspel said Tuesday. ... more 
N.Korea 'unlikely' to give up all nuclear weapons: US intel chiefWashington (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 North Korea is not likely to give up all of its nuclear weapons even if President Donald Trump's efforts to negotiate a deal with Pyongyang bear fruit, US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Tuesday. ... more  
Race for 'hypersonic' weapons heats up as France joins frayParis (AFP) Jan 28, 2019 World powers are vying to develop so-called "hypersonic" weapons that travel several times the speed of sound, with France the latest to join a field led so far by Russia and China. ... more  
Space Operators provide TACPs tactical space trainingBy Staff Sgt. Emily Kenney, 21st Space Wing Public Affairs Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 Deployed Tactical Air Control Party Airmen expect space effects to work; otherwise pilots get shot down, bombs miss targets, and soldiers die. TACPs may not know ... more |
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Marine Corps distributing 1,300 new night vision devices at baseWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2019 The U.S. Marine Corps has begun distributing about 1,300 helmet-mounted binocular night vision goggles to its infantry units. ... more 
BAE Systems wins $21M contract to supply artillery to British armyWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2019 The Land UK subsidiary of BAE Systems was awarded a $21 million contract to supply 155mm smoke and illuminating artillery rounds to Britain's Defense Ministry. ... more  
Huawei charm offensive runs into buzzsaw of US chargesShanghai (AFP) Jan 30, 2019 Fraud, obstruction of justice and cloak-and-dagger trade theft - a US rap sheet alleging systematic skullduggery by Chinese telecom giant Huawei has deepened the company's problems just as it sought to win back global trust. ... more 
China condemns US 'smear' in Huawei case as tensions boilBeijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 China on Tuesday accused the United States of "political motivations" behind sweeping charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei in a case that has ratcheted up tensions between the two superpowers. ... more 
FBI has dozens of probes into Chinese economic spyingWashington (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 The FBI is investigating Chinese economic espionage in nearly all of its 56 field offices around the country, underscoring the depth of the threat to US business, Director Christopher Wray told Congress Tuesday. ... more |
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Wife of jailed Taiwan activist condemns China visitation banTaipei (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 The wife of a Taiwanese democracy activist jailed in China condemned Beijing on Tuesday after she was banned from visiting him in prison for three months in a case that has strained cross-strait ties. ... more  |
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Boeing awarded $56.7M for Navy's T-45 aircraft supportWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2019 Boeing has been awarded a $56.7 million contract for support of the Navy's T-45, a training aircraft that had problems with its oxygen system last year. ... more 
Lockheed awarded $31.3M contract modification for F-35 in AustraliaWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2019 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $31.3 contract modification for sustainment services for the F-35 Lightning II purchased by the Royal Australian Air Force. ... more  
In God's name: how extremists hijacked Pakistan's blasphemy lawsIslamabad (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 Politicians have been assassinated, European countries threatened with nuclear annihilation and students lynched, all in the name of combating blasphemy in Pakistan, where the legal punishment for insulting the Prophet Mohammed is death. ... more  
Groundbreaking new reusable adhesive works underwaterChicago IL (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 Illinois researchers have introduced a new cutting-edge reusable adhesive that activates in seconds, works underwater, and is strong enough to deadlift 11 pounds: shape memory polymers (SMPs). ... more 
China says EU tour of restive region gave 'objective' insightBeijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 China said Tuesday a recent EU delegation visit to the far-west region of Xinjiang could enhance "objective understanding" of its controversial anti-terrorism campaign as it faces global criticism over mass detentions there. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2019 
Earlier on Friday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has held a press conference after the meeting of the Russia-NATO Council. The meeting focused on the fate of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) in light of Washington's decision to withdraw from the agreement.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Washington on Friday to abandon its plans to implement ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Jan 29, 2019  Iran has "no intention of increasing the range" of its missiles, a senior defence official said Tuesday, amid threats of European as well as US sanctions over its ballistic programme.
Iran has voluntarily limited the range of its missiles to 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles), sufficient to reach Israel and Western bases in the Middle East.
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 Miami FL (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 
Airborne Response, the South Florida-based provider of Mission Critical Unmanned Solutions for industry and government, completed Exercise Lightning Shield - a full-scale training exercise held on Thursday, January 24 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Airborne Response provided aerial support for the U.S. Army National Guard and specialized elements of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2019 
Britain's Defense Ministry has awarded a $1.2 million contract for satellite antennas as an alternative to the Galileo satellite constellation project because of its impending departure from the European Union.
Oxford Space Systems, a startup, was awarded the contract for a lightweight "wrapped-rib" that can be transported to space more efficiently at a lower cost, the ministry said in ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2019 
The Land UK subsidiary of BAE Systems was awarded a $21 million contract to supply 155mm smoke and illuminating artillery rounds to Britain's Defense Ministry.
The contract, which was awarded globally through the Defense Ministry's tender process, offers flexibility to add additional quantities in later years, the company said in a news release Tuesday.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 9, 2019 
Nearly $28 billion in funds appropriated to the Pentagon were left unspent when its authority to spend it expired in 2018, a government watchdog report says.
"If the DoD [Department of Defense] does not spend its funds within the legal timeframes, the funds expire. In FY 2018, the DoD reported $27.7 billion of expired funds, meaning that, generally, the DoD can no longer use those funds ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2019 
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday that US President Donald Trump's regular complaints about the alliance had not undermined it - adding that his criticism on defense spending was having a positive impact.
Trump has frequently blasted members of the 29-nation western security partnership for not paying more into their national defense budgets.
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 Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 
Platinum, a noble metal, is oxidised more quickly than expected under conditions that are technologically relevant. This has emerged from a study jointly conducted by the DESY NanoLab and the University of Vienna.
Devices that contain platinum, such as the catalytic converters used to reduce exhaust emissions in cars, can suffer a loss in efficacy as a result of this reaction. The team aro ... more |
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 Samarra, Iraq (AFP) Jan 27, 2019 
Four Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts north of the capital, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
"At around 8:00 am, the police officers were taking up their post at the southern entrance of Al-Sharqat," the town's mayor, Ali Dodah, told AFP.
"One bomb went off, killing two police officers and wounding eight. An hour and a hal ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2019 
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the Doomsday Clock would remain at two minutes until midnight.
Humanity has never been closer to catastrophe, according to the scientists and policy makers responsible for setting the clock. Last year, scientists set the clock at two minutes until midnight due to rising tensions between Russia and the United States, North Kor ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Jan 28, 2019 
The World Trade Organization decided Monday to investigate the tariffs Washington slapped on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods, as the two countries prepare to meet for renewed trade talks.
The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) has agreed to establish an expert panel to review US President Donald Trump's decision to hit China with tariffs on a quarter of a trillion dollars' worth of good ... more |
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 Brumadinho, Brazil (AFP) Jan 27, 2019  Fears of a second dam breach at a Brazilian mining complex receded Sunday, enabling a search to resume for the more than 300 people still missing two days after a dam collapse that has killed at least 58 people.
Loudspeakers rang out at 5:30 am (0730 GMT) among homes surrounding the Corrego do Feijao mining complex in southeastern Brazil, warning of dangerously high water levels, according ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 14, 2019 
As the Chang'e-4 probe made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, a senior Chinese space expert said China will deepen its lunar exploration and venture further into the unknown.
China's current lunar program includes three phases: orbiting, landing, and returning. The first two phases have been accomplished, and the next step is to launch the Chang'e-5 probe to collect ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 28, 2019  Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, sealing the fate of another attorney swept up in a 2015 crackdown.
Wang, 42, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, disappeared in a sweep aimed at courtroom critics of Communist authorities known as the "709" clampdown because the arre ... more |
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 Hasakeh, Syria (AFP) Jan 30, 2019 
From detention in northern Syria, alleged Irish jihadist Alexandr Bekmirzaev describes hunger and fear as missiles pounded down on the last shreds of the Islamic State group's "caliphate".
"I thought we were going to die from the starvation," the Muslim convert, 46 this year, told AFP in English, captured after fleeing the extremist group's crumbling last pocket in eastern Syria.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force announced it is planning future experiments involving laser and microwave energy weapons after recent successes in testing sessions.
Future experiments in the Directed Energy Experimentation Campaign are planned at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.
The tests by the 704th Test Group, essentially the use of mi ... more |
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