Homeland Security
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Business/FinancialContracts
Pratt Gains $12.2 Million MDA Liquid Propellant System Contract The Missile Defense Agency gave Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTX], a $12.2 million cost plus […]
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Homeland Security
GAO Finds DHS’ Efforts To Address Acquisition Workforce Needs Still Lacking
Despite limited progress in hiring additional acquisition staff and efforts to boost their training across all its component agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is behind in meeting its […]
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Business/Financial
Israel Broadening Its Security Export Markets
By Calvin Biesecker TEL AVIV–Once more reliant on the United States for the export of its aerospace and security products and services, Israeli firms today are finding more opportunities in […]
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Homeland Security
ODNI Effort Is Meeting The Challenge of Keeping Track of Ships At Sea
By Geoff Fein Keeping track of the thousands of vessels, from fishing boats to large container ships, as they sail to and from America is a daunting challenge, but one […]
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Business/Financial
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System Adds $246 Million To Alaska Economy During 2007
The Boeing Co. [BA], through its work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, added more than $246 million to the Alaska economy last year, Boeing announced. GMD includes interceptors […]
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CongressObering Steps Down From Missile Defense Agency; General Is ‘Encouraged’ Obama Backs Missile Defense, But Longer-Range Iranian Missiles Worrisome
General Warns That Delaying Missile Defense Such As In Europe Would ‘Severely Hurt’ Ability To Defend United States, Allies Against Enemies U.S.-European Missile Defense Scheduled To Be Operational By 2013, […]
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Business/Financial
Tauscher Says Missile Defense Shield Doesn’t Deter Rogue Nations From Developing Missile Forces; Therefore, What Is The Point Of Creating Missile Defense?
U.S. Nuclear Weapons May No Longer Provide Credible Deterrence, Tauscher Says, Urging Nukes Reduction Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), whose subcommittee oversees U.S. missile defense efforts, today questioned the value of […]
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Business/Financial
Griffin Awaits Two Studies Detailing How To Shrink Five-Year NASA Travel Gap
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin is awaiting two studies probing how to shrink the yawning half-decade gap when NASA won’t be able to take even one astronaut to low Earth orbit. […]
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Homeland Security
Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Would Devastate U.S.; More Casualties Than Nuclear Attack; But EMP Attack Could Be Defeated By Missile Defense
A rogue state or terrorists could launch an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States that would kill more Americans than a nuclear strike on a major city, but […]
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Business/Financial
Medvedev, Sarkozy, Back Off From Harsh Anti-American Rhetoric Aimed At European Missile Defense, In G-20 Summit
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, coming to the United States for a Group of 20 Nations summit confronting economic issues, backed off from their prior harsh […]