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Business/FinancialGates Endorses Missile Defense, Sees ‘High Probability’ Of Killing Incoming North Korean Missiles
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said U.S. missile defenses have a "high probability" of taking out any incoming North Korean missiles. "I have confidence that if North Korea launched a […]
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North Korea, Following Nuclear Bomb And Missile Tests, Reels Into Vow To Make More Nukes; Pyongyang Finally Admits To Uranium Program, Beyond Plutonium Work
North Threatens ‘Action’ If Its Ships Are Boarded Under New U.N. Resolution To Curb Pyongyang Proliferation North Korea, fresh from launching missiles of varying ranges and testing a nuclear weapon […]
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Ahmadinejad’s Message Of Hate And Threats Toward Israel, United States, Wins Him Reelection
His Vows To Annihilate America, Israel, Resonate With Iranian Voters; But His Rival Claims Election Fixing And Fraud Electorate Endorses Iranian Push Toward Ever More Threatening Missile Capabilities, Nuclear Materials […]
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CongressRep. McKeon To Fight Missile Defense Cuts As He Takes Top Republican Spot On Authorizing Panel, The House Armed Services Committee
House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Republicans selected Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon of California as their top-ranked GOP member, and McKeon said he will fight to reverse missile defense cuts […]
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House Panels Heed Admin’s Missile Cuts, Boost SOCOM
By Emelie Rutherford House authorizing subcommittees began crafting the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2010 budget yesterday, proposing to match the Obama administration’s missile-defense request and boost its Special Operations Command (SOCOM) […]
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Restricting Body Imagers Limits Threat Detection, Acting TSA Chief Says
By Calvin Biesecker Restrictions on the use of imaging technology at airport checkpoints that can peer beneath a person’s clothing to detect potential threats that metal detectors will limit the […]
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Air ForceHill Panel Crafts Ship Plan As GOP Seeks DoD Ship, Aircraft Roadmaps
By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval subcommittee in Congress said that while he understands the frustration of Republicans who want to compel the Pentagon to produce a shipbuilding […]
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Gates Repeats Flexibility On Missile Interceptors
By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates told senators yesterday he would support increasing the number of ground-based missile interceptors in the United States–despite the lack of funding for more […]
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House Panel Proposes Deepwater, Cybersecurity Cuts In DHS Approps Bill
By Emelie Rutherford A $37 million reduction to the Coast Guard’s Deepwater modernization program and $19 million dip in cybersecurity funding are among the modest cuts to the Obama administration’s […]
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DNDO Looks For October Certification of ASP Program By Napolitano
By Calvin Biesecker The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is hoping that development of the next-generation of Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs) will be ready in time for a certification decision […]