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SpaceIn The News
NASA Offers Scholarships To Lure Students Into Aeronautics The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in NASA is offering students scholarships in hopes of luring them into studying aeronautics and other fields. […]
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InternationalNATO Moves Closer To Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Capability
By Ann Roosevelt NATO inaugurated a special testing facility in The Hague, Netherlands — a milestone in the multi-year alliance project to protect deployed operating forces from ballistic missile attack. […]
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Homeland Security
Backlogged Security Clearances Plague DOD, Contractors, But OPM Sees Progress; 80 Percent of Reviews Done In 67 Days, But Averages May Mask Wide
Another 20 Percent Of Reviews May Take Longer; 540 Days Taken On One Case Sluggish Reviews Harm National Security, Cause Short Staffing; Employers Raid Each Other’s Shops For Workers With […]
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Space
NASA Gears Up For Next Decadal Survey, Choosing 19 Teams To Weigh Astronomy, Astrophysics Projects That Might Be Launched Sometime In The Next Decade
NASA chose 19 science teams to conduct yearlong studies of new concepts for its next generation of major observatories. The teams will advise NASA as it makes decisions about how […]
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ArmyJIEDDO: Costing The Enemy More Every Day
By Ann Roosevelt For the enemy involved in IEDs, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) is out to raise the risks of that effort every day, according to […]
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International
European Missile Defense Could Include Additional, Mobile Radar: Obering
An additional, mobile radar that could operate in a nation such as Turkey might be added to the fixed-site radar envisioned for installation in the Czech Republic and the interceptor […]
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International
NATO Moves Closer To Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Capability
NATO today inaugurates a special testing facility in The Hague, Netherlands–a milestone in the multi-year alliance project to protect deployed operating forces from ballistic missile attack. The integration test bed–ready […]
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International
L-3 Shedding Space Microwave Product Line
COM DEV USA, LLC, said Feb. 14 it has agreed to acquire the Passive Microwave Devices product line of L-3 Communications [LLL] Electron Technologies Inc. business unit for $12.2 million […]
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Air ForceYoung Certifies C-5 Re-engining Program
By Jen DiMascio The defense acquisition chief yesterday announced he has certified the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program (RERP) for continuation. John Young signed an order certifying 49 remaining […]
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Army
Army Holds Fast To FCS Funding Plan
By Jen DiMascio Despite warnings from the secretary of defense and members of Congress, the Army maintains it can afford and has planned for its top modernization program–the Future Combat […]