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Homeland SecuritySuccessful Aegis System Test Opens Door To New Capability; Will Aegis Compete With Ground-Based Midcourse System?
A successful test last week of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system and its Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptor opens the door to new capabilities and missions for the […]
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InternationalHill Continues To Push White House To Allow Israel To Deploy Powerful Radar
A congressional proponent of deploying the X-Band ground-based warning radar in Israel said yesterday that while President Bush didn’t endorse the plan, as hoped, when in Israel, the idea is […]
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International
Australia Launches Defense White Paper Community Consultation Program
Australian Minister for Defence, Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, June 5 launched the Defence White Paper Community Consultation Program and released a public discussion paper “Key Questions for Defence in the […]
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International
Spain Spending $156 Million For Tomahawk Cruise Missiles
Spain is looking to buy 20 Block IV Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles as well as associated equipment and services, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) reported. The total value, if […]
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Business/FinancialGD Acquires Healthcare Technology Services Business ViPS, Inc.
General Dynamics [GD] on Monday said it has agreed to acquire ViPS, Inc., a healthcare technology services business unit of HLTH Corp. [HLTH], for $225 million to expand its capabilities […]
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International
Australia Launches Defense White Paper Community Consultation Program
Australian Minister for Defence, Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, June 5 launched the Defence White Paper Community Consultation Program and released a public discussion paper "Key Questions for Defence in the […]
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ArmyLockheed 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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Air ForceSonobuoy SBIR Effort Gaining Interest From Other Services
By Geoff Fein KaZak Composites, Inc., has developed a sonobuoy that can be deployed from a Navy P-3C aircraft from an altitude of 30,000 feet and from a distance of […]
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Air Force
Wynne, Moseley Resignations Fuel Criticisms of Air Force Acquisitions
By Emelie Rutherford Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley’s resignations yesterday are being seized on by congressional critics of Air Force acquisition decisions. It […]
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Business/Financial
Aegis, SM-2 Interceptors Kill Target Missile In Terminal-Phase Success
By Dave Ahearn The Aegis weapon control system guided two Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors that obliterated a target missile in its terminal phase of flight, as the foreign- […]