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Air ForcePayton: Air Force Expects First C-5 RERP Production Contract In Early 2008
By Michael Sirak The Air Force expects that the forthcoming process of recertifying the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program (RERP) for continuation will conclude by the end of January, […]
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CongressGMD Missile Defense System Succeeds In Test, As Congress Mulls European Site
The Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) system aced a test against a long-range ballistic missile target, just as Congress is poised to decide the financial fate of plans to extend […]
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ArmyGAO Denies Raytheon Protest Over L-3 Team Win For Joint Cargo Aircraft Program
By Ann Roosevelt The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Sept. 27 denied a protest by Raytheon [RTN] over the potential $2 billion Army-Air Force Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) program won by […]
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SpaceThe Space Age At 50: Does American Glory Lie Ahead, Or Mainly In The Past?
Moon Mission Not Until End Of Next Decade; Mars Is Three Decades Away The space age reaches the half-century mark Thursday surrounded by the same questions that marked its beginning: […]
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Congress
Administration Forwards U.S.-U.K. Military Trade Treaty To Senate
By Jen DiMascio The administration on Sept. 20 submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee an agreement to loosen trade restrictions on military equipment between the U.S. and the U.K. […]
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InternationalJapanese May Contribute Technology To ABL; Purchase Might Be Considered
Japanese firms might contribute components to the U.S. Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense platform, an executive with The Boeing Co. [BA] said. But there have as yet been no […]
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Congress
Senators Support Amendment To Block B-52 Fleet Cuts
By Jen DiMascio Senators last week approved an amendment that blocks the Pentagon’s plan to reduce the number of B-52 bombers in its fleet. The Pentagon has been trying to […]
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Space
A Movie To See: In The Shadow Of The Moon
It was a time of worry and wonder, tension and transformation, fear and fulfillment. That was the 1950s and 1960s, living in the United States not only under the threat […]
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Space
Hubble Mission To Go On Big IMAX Movie Screen
Movie makers plan to make a telescope in the heavens into a star – a movie star.?IMAX Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures announced with NASA that the IMAX 3D camera […]