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Rockwell Collins To Acquire UAV Subsystem Supplier Athena Technologies
Rockwell Collins [COL] recently said it has agreed to acquire Athena Technologies, a privately held developer and supplier of flight control and navigation systems used mainly in unmanned aerial vehicles […]
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Army Orders 11 New Boeing Chinook Helicopters
Boeing [BA] announced the Army awarded $280.5 million for 11 new CH-47 Chinook helicopters, increasing the number of new Chinooks on contract to 59. “This new contract award represents a […]
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Business/FinancialIBM Protests FBI Biometric Award To Lockheed Martin
IBM [IBM] last week lodged a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over its loss to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for a potential $1 billion contract to develop a multi-modal […]
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Homeland Security
Biometrics Agency Soliciting For Technologies Ready For Demonstration
By Calvin Biesecker The Defense Department’s Biometrics Task Force (BTF) today plans to issue a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking mature biometric technologies that have the potential for being used […]
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ArmyImproving Army Capabilities A National Imperative, Army Vice Chief Says
By Ann Roosevelt FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.–For seven years the Army has worked to sustain, prepare, reset and train its soldiers for ongoing operations, and that momentum must continue, according to […]
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SpaceGriffin Sees Several Thousand Space Jobs Lost In Florida, Louisiana
Gap Between Space Shuttle Fleet Retirement And Orion-Ares Spaceship Costly As Skills Are Lost, And U.S. Becomes Dependent On Russia For Space Transit Florida Senator Asks About Commercial Spaceship Launches […]
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Business/Financial
Lockheed Martin, Army CERDEC Sign ISR CRADA
Lockheed Martin [LMT] announced Feb. 27 it signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the Army’s Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center’s (CERDEC) Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate […]
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Space
Griffin, Senior Senator Debate Getting Huge Experiment Into Space
The head of NASA and the senator chairing the NASA oversight panel debated at length how to get an otherwise wasted $1.5 billion experiment up to the International Space Station, […]
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InternationalNew Reports Show Iranian, North Korean, Chinese Missile Threats Worsen As U.S. Moves To Advance Multi-Layered Ballistic Missile Defense
And Then There Is A Reawakening Russia New reports confirm that multiple missile threats facing the United States are worsening, threats that years ago prompted Washington to institute a $100 […]
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Space
GAO: U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Meets Most Test Objectives; Missile Defense Agency Budgeting Improved, But Could Be Better
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has improved its budget processes so they are more like those in conventional federal agencies, but MDA still needs to improve the transparency and accountability […]