International
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InternationalThales To Provide Ground Mission Products For IAI’s Amos-4
Thales Alenia Space last week said it signed a contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the development, the delivery and the installation of elements in the Amos-4 Ground Segment. […]
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Business/FinancialFirst VH-71 Pilot Production Arrives For Testing At NAS Pax River
The first production VH-71 presidential replacement helicopter arrived last month at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Md., and will undergo two months of tests before systems installation work begins, […]
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Homeland Security
WMD Prevention Report Sees Risk From Use of Bio-Weapons By 2013
By Calvin Biesecker The world faces the haunting prospect that somewhere a weapon of mass destruction, most likely one based on a biological threat, will be used within the next […]
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Business/FinancialU.S. Division Powers QinetiQ’s First Half Results
Britain’s QinetiQ last Wednesday posted strong six month financial results driven by the company’s United States-based division, which is benefiting from supplying ground robots and armored products to troops in […]
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ArmyInternational Interest Strong in U.S. Army’s Future Combat System
By Ann Roosevelt Australia and Canada early next year are likely to have service personnel at Ft. Bliss, Texas, to learn about the U.S. Army’s Future Combat System (FCS) and […]
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Homeland Security
Obama Retains Gates As Secretary Of Defense; Gates Oversaw Major Advances In Missile Defense
President-elect Obama today announced he will retain Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the top Pentagon post, and also said Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Armed […]
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Business/FinancialEuropean Missile Defense Plan Advances As Czech Senate Provides Long-Sought Approval
The Czech Republic Senate, 40-31, approved a plan for the United States to install a radar on Czech territory as part of the envisioned European Missile Defense (EMD) system. Because […]
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Homeland Security
Russia Tests Sea-Based Submarine-Launched Bulava Missile, And Plans Deploying Land-based RS-24 ICBMs To Outwit U.S. Missile Defense System Before It Is Created
RS-24 Test-Fired Successfully For Third Time An increasingly bellicose Russia test-launched a sea-based ballistic missile from a submarine, and also readied plans to deploy a land-based nuclear-tipped missile that Russians […]
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Homeland Security
U.N. Weapons Inspectors Stymied In Attempt To Disarm Iranian Nuclear Materials Program
Iran Now Has Half The Nuclear Material Required To Produce An Atomic Weapon United Nations inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have reached an impasse in their attempts […]
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Business/FinancialFalcon 9 Static Test Firing Successful
The Falcon 9 rocket aced a static fire test that lasted almost three minutes, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced Sunday. That full mission-length firing in a vertical test stand […]