Space
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CongressMissile Defense Urgently Needed To Counter Widespread And Rising Ballistic Missile Threat
The next president of the United States has no choice but to continue erecting a multi-layered ballistic missile shield, because the threat posed by potential enemy ballistic missiles has grown […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Breaks Ground On New Wallops Island Facility
Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] broke ground on a new facility at Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the first building in Wallops Research Park. The research Park is […]
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Homeland Security
Missile Defense Required To Counter Increasing Threat Posed By China, State Department Study Finds: Report
China poses a rising ballistic missile threat that the United States should counter with improved systems including missile defense capabilities, a draft version of a State Department study concludes, according […]
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Business/FinancialTaiwan Seeks PAC-3 Missiles As Part Of $6.4 Billion Plan To Buy American Weapons
Taiwan is seeking to obtain more than $6.4 billion in American weapons including Patriot Advanced Capbility-3 (PAC-3) anti-missile interceptors, under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The gigantic program also […]
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Business/FinancialSBIRS Cost Overruns Likely To Exceed $414 Million, And Delays To Exceed Estimates Of 15 Months, GAO Reports
Plans To Resolve Software Glitches Are Likely To Fall Short, Report States It likely will require more than an estimate $414 million in cost overruns and 15 months of delays […]
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Business/FinancialEuropean Space Agency Sets Sights On Converting Automated Transfer Vehicles To Manned Transport Duty
First ATV Successfully De-Orbited, Burns Up As Planned In Reentry Astrium has provided the European Space Agency (ESA) with an option to convert the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) robotic cargo […]
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Business/FinancialGeospatial Intelligence Leader Sees Rising Use Of Commercial Satellites For Intelligence Gathering Work
Vice Adm. Murrett: U.S. Systems Can Detect Enemy Tunnels, Spot Individuals As They Walk U.S. intelligence efforts are using huge amounts of civilian space imaging capabilities, and that will continue, […]
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SpaceCongress Passes R&D Tax Credit Extension; Industry Sought Action To Aid Investment
Congress enacted a research and development tax credit extension that the aerospace industry had sought, a measure that was included in a larger bill to bail out portions of the […]
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Homeland Security
Dangers In Iran Have Been Downplayed; Iranian Military Forces Aren’t Rogue Units, But Rather Are Part Of Iranian Government
Some analysts and observers, who assert that certain especially dangerous military actors in Iran don’t really represent government views and motives, are dead wrong, a new paper states. In fact, […]
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Business/FinancialIBEX Spacecraft To Launch Oct. 19 From Kwajalein Atoll On Mission To Study Solar System-Galaxy Limits
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft will launch Oct. 19 from Kwajalein Atoll on a mission to study the heliopause boundary between the solar system and open galactic space, […]