International
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Business/FinancialBudget Reaction: Cutting Funds For GMD Could Harm Capability Just As Iran, North Korea, Pose Growing Threats
ABL Cuts Would Come After Program Has Seen Major Progress, Successes Cutting funding for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system or the Airborne Laser (ABL) could harm U.S. attempts to […]
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CongressAdm. Mullen Concerned Iran Is Moving To Nuclear Capability; North Korean Launch Bears Watching
Mullen Declines To Say Whether U.S. Forces Will Shoot Down Any Missile That North Korea Launches Iran’s illicit nuclear materials development program likely has produced enough materials to make an […]
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Business/Financial
Iran Is Supplying Surface-To-Air Missiles To Taliban In Afghanistan
Iran is supplying SA-14 Gremlin surface-to-air missiles to Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan, who wish to launch a spectacular attack on U.S. and coalition forces in the nation that spawned the […]
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Business/Financial
Iran Plans Eight Times More Centrifuges: Report
Iran plans to increase its nuclear materials production capacity to more than eight times its current size, Xinhua news agency reported. Iran plans to expand the 6,000 centrifuges to a […]
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Business/Financial
North Korea Confirms That Launch Is Imminent: Report
North Korea confirmed that it is poised to launch a missile, though the North said it was about to orbit a satellite, rather than to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, […]
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Business/Financial
AsiaSat 5 To Launch On ILS Proton In July-September Quarter
The AsiaSat 5 satellite will launch on an ILS Proton lifter in the July-September quarter, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced. Previously, the company had announced AsiaSat 5 would […]
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Homeland Security
Russian Bear Bombers Fly Near Canada; NORAD Scrambles Fighters
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled fighter interceptors to confront two Russian bombers that flew close to Canada, NORAD reported. This incident comes after Russia has resumed nuclear-missile […]
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Business/Financial
Report Says Obama Offered To Kill European Missile Defense System If Russia Helps Curb Iran
Report Appeared In Russian Paper President Obama offered to kill plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system if Russia would help the United States force Iran to abandon […]
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Business/Financial
Special Fiscal 2010 Budget Issue: Obama Budget Is Stand-Pat For NASA, But Cuts Missile Defense Deeply, Damaging Programs, Harming Security
In this special fiscal 2010 budget issue, Space & Missile Defense Report describes in detail how President Obama’s federal budget outline for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, provides […]
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InternationalU.S.-Australia Enter Project Arrangement On JLTV
As part of the Army/Marine Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program, the Defense Department and the Australian Department of Defence have entered into a Land Force Capability Modernization (LFCM) Project […]