International
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Business/FinancialMissile 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 […]
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Business/Financial
Payload Added To Loral Launch
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will add a government payload to Sirius 5, a satellite for SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG), currently under construction at the spacecraft manufacturing facility in California. […]
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Business/Financial
Rationale Disconnect: Missile Defense Foes Advance Conflicting Arguments On ABL, GMD
GMD Foes Say It Hasn’t Been Tested Against Countermeasures, But Then They Knock ABL Which Nails Missiles Despite Countermeasures As a full-scale battle opens this year over funding for missile […]
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Business/Financial
Space Tourist Simonyi To Launch Thursday On Soyuz For Record-Setting Second Space Tourist Flight To Station
Charles Simonyi will launch Thursday on a Soyuz space vehicle, becoming the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station twice. He is the seventh tourist whose voyage was […]
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Business/Financial
Rep. Tauscher To Leave House Armed Services Committee For Administration Post
Whether This Means Brighter Outlook For Missile Defense Programs Isn’t Yet Clear The leading congressional critic of missile defense systems will leave the powerful post where she was able to […]
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Homeland Security
Russia May Place Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missiles On Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines: Russian News Report
Russia may place nuclear-tipped cruise missiles aboard nuclear-powered attack submarines, according to the RIA Novosti Russian news service. The report quoted Russian Vice Adm. Oleg Burtsev, deputy head of the […]
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Business/Financial
Special 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
Raytheon Gains $106 Million Pact Providing JSOWs To Navy, Allies
The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $106 million contract to produce Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 missiles for the Navy and key allies. The new C-1 variant will be network-enabled, […]
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InternationalBoeing Signs MoA With Terma A/S
Boeing [BA] this week said it signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Terma A/S to provide a minimum of 30 percent of the industrial cooperation investments outlined in Boeing’s Super […]
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International
Australia Implements All Recommendations From Sea King Inquiry
All 256 recommendations from the Sea King Board of Inquiry report have been implemented, laying the foundation for ongoing improvement of safety in Australian Navy aviation, the Chief of Navy, […]