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Business/FinancialIBM Joins Lockheed Martin NGI Team; Protest Dropped
IBM [IBM] has joined the Lockheed Martin [LMT] team that earlier this year won the FBI’s $1 billion program to develop and implement the multi-modal biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) […]
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Business/Financial
New Raytheon Homeland Security Head Eyes Faster, Broader Growth
By Calvin Biesecker Raytheon [RTN] is doing about $1 billion in annual sales in its security business and can do even better by honing its focus across the company and […]
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ArmyUnified Quest 2008 Wargame Examines Future Concepts And Capabilities
By Ann Roosevelt CARLISLE BARRACKS, Pa.–Specific recommendations on the forces and capabilities needed to promote persistent stability and build partnership capacity are the goal of the Unified Quest 2008 seminar […]
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Business/Financial
Lockheed Martin Protests Navy’s BAMS Award
By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday filed a protest of the Navy’s award of a $1.16 billion contract to Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) […]
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Air ForceTanker Overturn Would Be Disaster, Advocates of European Cooperation Say
By Emelie Rutherford If the Air Force’s contested tanker contract with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and a European partner is overturned, it will be a "disaster" for efforts to accelerate cooperation […]
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White House details its $70 billion supplemental war funding request for FY ’09
By Emelie Rutherford The White House last Friday sent Congress details on its $70 billion supplemental fiscal year 2009 request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeking equipment funds […]
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Business/Financial
Polar Satellite Dies After A Dozen Years In Operation
The Polar satellite that studied radiation and particles from the sun above the Earth died. In operation for a dozen years, the satellite was part of the NASA Global Geospace […]
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SpaceDemocrats On House Panel Assail Obering, Missile Defense; Chairman Sees More Hearings, Plus A Report, Possible
Ranking Republican Says Anti-BMD Hearing ‘A Fraud’ Obering Asks, If An Enemy Launches A Missile From An Unmarked Ship, How Could U.S. Forces Retaliate? Democratic legislators lacerated and lambasted the […]
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Space
Senate Panel Cuts $45 Million Each From ABL, KEI, $50 Million Each From STSS, Multiple Kill Vehicle, And All $10 Million Sought For Space Test-bed
Panel Adds $350 Million To Transformational Satellite, $100 Million To Aegis, $115 Million To THAAD, And An Extra $28 Million To Short-Range BMD Bill Adds $30 Million For Follow-On To […]
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InternationalExpert Says North Koreans Showed Him Plutonium; He Says Regime Likely Has "A Few’ Nuclear Bombs, And Fuel To Make Six To Eight More Weapons
Analyst Asks Why Negotiate With A Nation That Cheats The good news is that North Korea is moving to disable its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, and it is open about its […]