International
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Homeland Security
General Cool To Expanding Missile Defense System To Protect Space Assets From Attack
The United States shouldn’t leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air […]
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Business/FinancialContracts
NASA Extends Information Technology Contract For $214.4 Million NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] of San Diego. This extension […]
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Homeland Security
DHS, Navy Say Drug Smugglers Increasingly Turning To Semi-Submersible Craft
By Calvin Biesecker Through the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2008 United States Government homeland security forces have reported thwarting 62 events involving the use of semi-submersible craft to […]
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CongressNorth Korea Test-Fires ICBM Engine; Russia Launches Missile Said To Defeat U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Shield
Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]
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Business/FinancialEuropeans Charting Course To Be Independent Of United States In Both Civil, Military Space
The Europeans wish to be independent of the United States in space, including a capacity to make their own satellites and launchers. As the United States falls on hard times, […]
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Business/FinancialJapan Uses PAC-3 To Kill Target Missile In Test; But U.S. THAAD Test Is Blocked By Weak Target
Japan succeeded in using a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) interceptor to take out a target tactical ballistic missile, but a U.S. test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or […]
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InternationalEgypt Wants UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters, TOWs and 120mm HE-T
Egypt wants to buy more than $560 million in United Technologies [UTX] General Electric [GE] UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, Raytheon’s [RTN] TOW 2A anti-armor guided missiles and General Dynamics [GD] […]
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InternationalUAE May Buy $9 Billion In U.S. Military Wares
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) may buy roughly $9 billion of U.S. military wares, including $8.25 billion of missile and missile/air defense systems and $774 million worth of Black Hawk […]
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InternationalHouse Panel Dubious About Reprogramming Pakistani Funds To Bolster F-16s
Members of a House subcommittee raised serious doubts recently about Pakistan’s request to rejigger some of its U.S. aid to beef up its F-16 fighter jets, and the panel’s head […]
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InternationalSaudi Arabia Wants $598 Million Apache Helicopters
Boeing [BA], General Electric [GE] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] would benefit as prime contractors from a proposed $598 million sale to Saudi Arabia of AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters and associated […]