Space
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Homeland Security
U.S. Preeminence In Space Slips Away. As China, India, Russia Accelerate Their Space Programs: House Panel
Report Urges Revamping Defense, Intelligence Space Acquisition, Assails Sole-Source Contracts Better Relations Needed Between Military-Intelligence Agencies And Commercial Satellite Data Firms "The United States is losing its preeminence in space," […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Needs Ships It Can Evolve To Meet Growing Ballistic, Cruise Missile Threats, Official Says
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 […]
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Homeland Security
China Leaders See Space Program As An Investment, Not As A Gigantic Expense As U.S. Lawmakers Do
With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a […]
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CongressProcurement Spending May Not Plunge, Despite Fears
Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean […]
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Homeland Security
North Korea Fires Missiles Into Yellow Sea: Reports
Pyongyang Developing Small Nuclear Weapon To Fit Atop Its Missiles North Korea fired missiles into the Yellow Sea, as the isolated regime separately is developing smaller-sized nuclear weapons as warheads […]
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Homeland Security
Lockheed Delivers MUOS Hardware
Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the core structure including a propulsion subsystem for the first Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, the company announced today. It is the largest […]
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Congress
McCain, Obama Decry Iranian Move To Obtain Nuclear Weapons As Threat To Existence Of Israel
Both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates condemned Iranian moves to produce nuclear weapons, saying that would pose a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Sen. Barack Obama […]
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Business/Financial
Laser Guided Rocket Passes Wind Tunnel Test
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 […]
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Congress
Neither McCain Nor Obama Is Seen Pressing For Space Weapons
Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major […]
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Business/Financial
Webb Telescope Model On Display In Germany
A full-scale model of the James Webb Space telescope today goes on display at a museum in Germany, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The full-scale model will remain on display […]