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March 22, 2010

Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Hornet Watch. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says he expects the Pentagon to decide within...
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Pentagon Considers Tanker Deadline Extension
By Marina Malenic The Defense Department announced Friday it is considering extending a May 10 deadline for bid submissions to build the Air Force's tanker...
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GAO Warns More F-35 Cost And Schedule Hiccups Likely

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DOE To Eliminate 'Low-Value' Safety, Security Requirements

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IARPA RFI Wants To Know How Immersive Worlds Affect Real World

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Pentagon Studying Impact of NASA Constellation Cancellation

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Aerojet and Orbital Complete Main Engine Lifetime Testing for Taurus II Space Launch Vehicle

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SpaceX and Space Systems/Loral Sign Contract for Falcon 9 Geosynchronous Transfer Mission

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Air Force Advocates Continued NPOESS Funding, Warns Over Launch Costs

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GeoEye Picks Lockheed Martin For NGA's EnhancedView Satellite Program

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Sikorsky And PZL Mielec In Poland Complete First S-70i Black Hawk

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Boeing's A160T Hummingbird Completes Successful Cargo Demo

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Army Issues BAA For Future Advanced Rotorcraft Drive System Program

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EADS N.A. Delivers 100th UH-72A Lakota

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Sikorsky Company To Provide Contractor Logistics Support For Navy LUH

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Oshkosh Defense To Supply HEMTTs To UAE

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BAE Systems Engineers Deliver On FRES Demonstrator Contract For MoD

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Gilat Satellite Networks To Acquire Raysat Antenna Systems

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Obama Taps Boeing Exec To Advise Export Promotion Effort

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Australia Contracts With Elbit For Next Gen C3 With Elbit

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Briefing

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Pentagon Establishes Minimum Standards for DoD Physical Access Control

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TSA Adds Equipment to Air Cargo Screening Qualified List

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Lockheed Martin Still Working Trade Study for NGI Latent Prints

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Accenture Establishes Data Threat Analysis Center

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Nation Needs To Get Down To Business In Defending Cyber Space, Official Says

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Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Face Fast Paced CANES SDD Phase

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DHS Plans R&D Effort To Apply Targeting Algorithms To Body Scanners

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Lockheed Martin Introduces Platform For Smart Grid Assets

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Five Companies Receive SPAWAR C2 IDIQ Award

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Colgan Crash Anniversary Observed

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GE In Agreement With FAA To Research UAS Integration Into National Air Space

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DHS IG Sees Minimal Threat To Security From General Aviation

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Eurocopter EC175 Takes to the Air

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Helicopter Financing Tight But Not Terminal

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Helicopter HUMS update 2K10

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Use of the Instrument Rating for Helicopter Pilots

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Autorotation is a Sprag Thing

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IFE Providers: Connectivity Adds To Allure Of In-Flight Entertainment

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Safeguarding HEMS

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Asia’s MRO Hub

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Product Focus: HUMS

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Editor's Note: Recent Milestones

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Satellite Engineers Work to Solve COTM Challenges

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Talia Prepares for Launch of VSAT Service

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Globalstar Looks to Brighter Future with Next-Gen Satellites

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Slovak Telecom COO Hails Launch of Satellite-TV Offering

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Harding Looks at Air Force Communications Challenges

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Via Satellite’s Satellite Executive Of The Year 2009: Peter Shaper, CEO, CapRock Communications

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Standing Out in a Difficult Environment

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Capacity Extremes Could Impact MENA

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Teleport Operators Find Ways to Trim Costs

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New Efforts to Mitigate Satellite Interference

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