Congress
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Business/FinancialSpecial Missile Defense Conference Issue: Tauscher Says European Missile Defense To Wait Until After Ground-based Midcourse Defense Tests
Levin, Tauscher, Warn Of Cuts Coming In Total Missile Defense Authorizations Tauscher Flails Airborne Laser As Behind Schedule And $4 Billion Over Budget; But She Praises Aegis, THAAD Programs Any […]
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Business/Financial
Airborne Laser System Endangered By Looming Budget Cuts, Lawmakers Say
Military May Lose Laser Capability In Killing Enemy Missiles; Industrial Base Is Threatened By Budget Moves Legislators Write Letter To Gates A bipartisan group of legislators told Secretary of Defense […]
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Business/Financial
Deep Missile Defense Cuts Would Toss Tens Of Thousands Of Workers Out Of Good Jobs Amidst Economic Recession
Airborne Laser Is Adaptable; Can Relocate Around Globe In Hours, Not Weeks Missile Defense Systems Already Share Sensor Data From Radars, Briefers Say If leaders in Washington make crippling cuts […]
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Business/Financial
Northrop Official Sees Possible Cuts In Ballistic Missile Program Budgets
Airborne Laser Offers Unique Technologies; Kinetic Energy Interceptor Advances Ballistic missile defense programs may face funding reductions just when those programs are about to provide a payoff after years of […]
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Business/Financial
Another Missile Defense Success: THAAD Kills Target Missile
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system scored another successful hit against a target missile, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That successful hit was scored […]
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Business/Financial
Cartwright Says Missile Defense Systems Must Be Able To Perform Multiple Missions; Urges Common Use Of Sensors For Systems
General Says Missile Defense Programs Require Stable, Funding Over Years Missile defense programs must be able to handle multiple tasks in a cost-saving and efficient manner, because the military can […]
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Air ForcePartial Transcript Of Rep. Tauscher’s Remarks To Missile Defense Conference And Journalists:
Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, whom President Obama has chosen for a nonproliferation post in the State Department, made comments […]
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Business/Financial
Commander Says Nothing Could Have Prevented Iridium-Cosmos Collision
Northing could have been done to prevent the collision of an Iridium Satellites LLC bird with a dead Russian Cosmos intel satellite, a senior U.S. military officer said. "There was […]
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Air Force
Military Officers: Missile Defense Works; When North Korea Launches Missile, High Probability U.S. Forces Can Knock It Down
North Korea Poses A Threat To Allies; Its Missile Launch Violates U.N. Rule; Even Satellite Launch Shows Korean Threat Multilayered U.S. Missile Defense System Seen as ‘Critical’: General’s Assessment Senior […]
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Business/Financial
Missile Defense Deters Threats, General States; Successful Tests Raise Confidence It Works; Programs Should Continue: General
Chilton: Cyber Hackers, Foes, Penetrate Military Computer Systems; New Nuclear Weapons Needed To Thwart Terror Thieves U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs deter threats and therefore should be continued, since […]