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Air ForceTanker Protest Watchers Await Confirmation of Air Force Nominations
By Emelie Rutherford Congress should move quickly to confirm a new Air Force secretary and chief of staff so questions about the protested tanker contract can be answered and the […]
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Netherlands MoD Selects AeroVironment’s Raven UAS
AeroVironment(AV) [AVAV] May 30 announced it has won a $7.7 million contract from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence for the RQ-11B (Raven) small unmanned aircraft systems. “We performed a thorough […]
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Lockheed Martin, Kaman Aerospace Demonstrate Unmanned Helo Supply
Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Kaman Aerospace Corp. [KAMN] said they recently demonstrated for the Army and Marine Corps that it’s feasible to transport supplies to ground troops by unmanned helicopter. […]
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Gimbaled Camera Coming This Month For FCS Class I UAV
This month, the Future Combat System’s (FCS) Class 1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), produced by Honeywell [HON] takes another step forward–with the addition of gimbaled sensors, according to Army officials. […]
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Navy SBIR Effort Developing UAV To Be Deployed From P-3C, P-8
Acuity Technologies and Piasecki Aircraft Corp., are both in the midst of a phase two Navy small business innovation research (SBIR) effort to develop a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) […]
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SpaceIf Iran Launches Nuclear Missile To Israel, And Israel Uses BMD To Kill The Missile, Who Gets Blame For Fallout? Israel.
If Iran launches a nuclear missile attack on Israel, and Israel defends itself by using ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems to destroy the incoming missile, who will be blamed if […]
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Space
Rep. Harman, Others, Urge Bush To Send X-Band Missile Defense Radar To Israel
By Emelie Rutherford A congressional proponent of deploying the X-Band ground-based warning radar in Israel said that while President Bush didn’t endorse the plan during his visit to Israel, as […]
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Business/FinancialContracts
Boeing Gives Ares I Rocket Subcontracts to Three Firms The Boeing Co. [BA] has awarded subcontracts to three small businesses under its NASA Ares I avionics contract. The avionics ring […]
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Business/Financial
Towed Decoy Missile Defense System Tested
The Navy completed developmental testing of a BAE Systems fiber-optic towed decoy to protect military aircraft against enemy missiles. Those operational tests were performed on the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet […]