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Cal Biesecker
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DEFENSE WATCH
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Bombs Away. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta suggests Feb. 17 the next-generation Air Force bomber, which he dubs a budget […]
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Homeland Security
New Rand Study Expects Future Conflict With al Qaeda
A decade after 9/11 analysts still can’t come to a consensus on al Qaeda’s current condition, a new Rand Corp. study said. Expect the battle to continue for many years, […]
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ArmyGD Successfully Completes First Demo of Secure Coms Via MUOS Waveform
General Dynamics‘ [GD] C4 Systems unit yesterday said it recently completed the first demonstration of secure voice and data communications via the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite-communications waveform using […]
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Army
Bell Helicopter To Refurbish Thai Army Helicopters
Bell Helicopter [TXT] recently said it received a contract to modify and refurbish eight Royal Thai Army Bell 212 helicopters. Bell Helicopter Asia will work with Bell’s independent representative Royal […]
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Business/FinancialJIEDDO Looks For Solutions For Future R&D Capability Gaps
The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) this week issued its Strategic Plan 2012-2016, enumerating seven future research and development (R&D) capability gaps it wants to fill to stay […]
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Air ForceHistoric ABL Program Winds Down, Aircraft Heads To Storage
The Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB), which achieved a historic first shooting down a boosting ballistic missile, demonstrating a directed energy weapon could be used for missile defense, now heads […]
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Army
Army Conducts Successful Flight Test of New Target Missile
Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) yesterday said it successfully completed a flight test of the new Economical Target-1 (ET-1) at Eglin AFB, Fla. The ET-1 […]
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Army
AM General Sees Humvee Right-Hand Drive Market, As Left-Hand Drive Suffers Budget Blow
Far from the U.S. defense budget battles in Washington, D.C., Humvee-maker AM General unveiled a right-hand drive variant of the vehicle at the Singapore Air Show. In the United States, […]
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Army
Army Budget Request To Terminate FMTV, EMARSS, Supports Future Force
The president’s fiscal year 2013 budget–the first based on the new strategic guidance–requests $184.6 billion for the Army comprised of $134.6 billion in the base request and $50 billion for […]
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InternationalU.S., Israel Conduct Successful Arrow Weapon System Test
The Israel Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said they completed a successful test of the cooperative U.S.-Israel Arrow Weapon System (AWS) over the Mediterranean Sea, the […]