International
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Business/FinancialGates 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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Business/FinancialIntelsat 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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Business/FinancialU.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/FinancialUnder 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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InternationalBoeing 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. […]
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InternationalAir Force Welcomes Lockheed Martin C-130J Aircraft To Boost Lift
The U.S. Air Force welcomed the first of 14 new Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-130J Super Hercules aircraft that will be permanently based at Ramstein Air Base. Commanding Gen. Roger Brady […]
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InternationalMEADS International Taps Steven Barnoske As New President
The MEADS International Board of Directors announced Steven Barnoske April 1 succeeded Jim Cravens as president of the international joint venture developing the next generation of ground-mobile air and missile […]
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InternationalForce Protection Inc. And NP Aerospace To Build More U.K. Wolfhounds
Force Protection Inc. (FRPT) and NP Aerospace Limited, a subsidiary of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, recently jointly announced an approximately $122.6 million award for 97 Wolfhound heavy tactical support […]
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International‘Improved Arrow’ Test Successful, Israel Says
With recent events and speeches nudging missile defense back toward center stage, Israel made a statement of its own Tuesday with a successful test of an “improved” Arrow Weapon System […]