International
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Business/FinancialChinese Firm Indicted For Allegedly Aiding Iranian Drive To Advance Nuke, Missile Programs
A Chinese firm stands indicted for allegedly aiding Iran in its drive to advance its nuclear and ballistic missiles development programs, according to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. Li Fanwei […]
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U.S. Leaders Using World Economic Collapse To Justify Deep Defense Weapons Cuts, But China Slowdown Doesn’t Affect PLA Buying Spree
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is rocketing ahead in its immense military procurement spending spree despite a cooling economy, but officials in the United States are using the economic slowdown […]
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Analysts: North Korea Cheats, Breaks Rules, So Why Negotiate Further With Pyongyang?
U.S. Missile Defense Is Required As North Korea Pursues Threatening Missile, Nuclear Capabilities While President Obama is preparing to resume negotiations with North Korea after it test-launched a Taepo Dong-2 […]
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Advocacy Group To Hold Obmama To His Word When He And Gates Say Ballistic Missile Defense Is Needed Against Threat
Proponents of ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs are poised to hold President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to their words when they say that BMD systems are required […]
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Gates Errs In Downplaying Conventional Wars, Near-Peer Foes By Cutting Weapons Programs, Analyst Says; Dumping Systems Is Dangerous
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is leading the Department of Defense in a wrong and dangerous direction by cutting or killing major weapons acquisition programs, a military analyst said in […]
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Intelsat Sells Satellite Capacity To Juch-Tech
Intelsat Ltd. sold capacity on its IS-14 satellite to Juch-Tech Inc. That will help Juch-Tech bolster its LinkStar service to Africa. Juch-Tech signed a multi-year agreement with Intelsat for capacity […]
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U.S. Firm To Market Satellite Imagery Of German Firm To Defense, Intel Customers
MakaLani, LLC. of Hawaii announced it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with RapidEye AG of Brandenburg, Germany to be the distributor in the United States of RapidEye satellite […]
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Business/Financial
Under Way On Electrical Power: Ion Engines To Power Spacecraft
The European GOCE spacecraft will use electric engines to provide critical thrust needed to keep it from toppling out of orbit and plunging to Earth. Those T5 ion thrusters are […]
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InternationalLockheed Martin To Upgrade Kuwaiti Long Range Radar
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has been awarded a contract by the Kuwait Ministry of Defense to significantly upgrade the Kuwait Air Force AN/FPS-117 long-range radar originally delivered in 1993. The radar […]
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International
Boeing and Denmark’s Systematic Sign MoUs On Future Business Cooperation
Boeing [ BA] and Danish systems integration and software development company Systematic have signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) that outline areas for future business cooperation between the two companies. […]