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Cal Biesecker
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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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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 […]
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Air Force
Defense Budget Funds Missile Defense Capability Improvements–Including MEADS, PAC-3
In support of administration priorities, the fiscal year 2013 budget request for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is $7.7 billion, down from $8.4 billion in FY ’12, with funding reductions […]
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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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DEFENSE WATCH
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Industry Muscle. Former HAC staffer William Greenwalt is the Aerospace Industries Association’s new vice president of acquisition policy, the […]