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Thales is developing a lightweight multirole missile (LMM) to offer a low-cost precision-strike capability for a variety of air-, land- and sea-based platforms, but particularly for unmanned air vehicles (UAV). […]

By Calvin Biesecker France’s SAFRAN Group yesterday said it has agreed to acquire the biometrics business of Motorola [MOT] in a deal that would expand its already robust fingerprint matching […]

Curtiss-Wright [CW] yesterday said its Controls business unit has acquired Norway-based VMETRO for $72 million, boosting its position in embedded computer products for aerospace, defense, industrial, communications and medical markets. […]

The pending acquisition of DRS Technologies [DRS] by Italy’s Finmeccanica has received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), moving the deal one big step […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is continuing to explore its options to remedy a strike fighter shortfall projected to occur in the next nine years, as well as examining upgrades […]

By Calvin Biesecker ATLANTA–In its own testing Smiths Detection has demonstrated that its HI-SCAN 6040aTiX X-Ray system can distinguish between innocent liquids and "liquids of interest" as part of its […]

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday to take a new crew to the International Space Station for a half-year stay in orbit. That crew includes Expedition 18 […]

Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] […]

Vice Admiral Says Missile Threat Justifies Shift From Building New-Design Destroyers Back To Older Arleigh Burke Design By Geoff Fein The Navy has to move toward an open systems environment […]

The Laser Guided Rocket (LGR) passed a wind tunnel test, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. That tunnel operation produced both high fidelity flight simulations and data for developing the aerodynamic model […]