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Homeland Security
MDA Leader: North Korea Already Has ICBM Capability
North Korea has the capability to design and build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), even though a Taepo Dong-2 missile failed in a 2006 test, a senior U.S. missile defense […]
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InternationalAustralia 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/FinancialAegis, 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- […]
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International
Ascent Joint Venture In Billion-Dollar U.K. Flight Training Pact
U.K. Army and Navy flight training will be transformed under an approximately $1.2 billion contract with Ascent, a Lockheed Martin [LMT] VT Group joint venture, the government said June 2. […]
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International
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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International
Lockheed Martin Chief: NATO Partners Must Boost Industry Investment
The United States defense market is trending open and Europe needs to follow suit while increasing investment needed for meaningful contributions to transatlantic initiatives if NATO hopes to remain effective […]
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International
Hill 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 […]