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| July 04, 2014 |
 Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes J-2X Testing Sacramento CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed its final J-2X test series at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Over a period of three years, Aerojet Rocketdyne teams manufactured, assembled and tested four newly developed engine test articles that achieved an accumulated duration of nearly five hours firing time and demonstrated full power operation for twice its designed life service. Deliverin ... more |  |
 Thales Alenia Space Belgium expands Charleroi, Belgium (UPI) Jun 26, 2013 - Thales Alenia Space Belgium has opened a new facility in Belgium for the development of new avionics products and technologies for satellites and space launch vehicles. The plant opened at Leuven Thursday "reflects Thales Alenia Space's growing role in Belgium, a country that is fully committed to government-funded space R&D programs at the national and European levels," the company sai ... more |  |
 Lockheed wins $35M Navy IT contract Denver (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 - The U.S. Navy's net-centric system for intelligence collection and dissemination is to be enhanced by Lockheed Martin under a five-year contract award. Lockheed said its work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award could involve integrating and deploying capabilities that monitor the status of all sensors registered in the Distributed Information Operations-System networ ... more |  |
Coast Guard funds long-lead materials for new cutter Pascagoula, Miss. (UPI) Jul 2, 2013 - Long-lead materials for an eighth U.S. Coast Guard National Security cutter are being procured by Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division. The materials are being purchased under a $76.5 million contract given earlier this week by the Coast Guard in relation to the future cutter Midgett, which will be constructed at the Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Mississippi. ... more |  |
 Demilitarization facility for munitions inaugurated in France London (UPI) Jul 2, 2013 - A facility for demilitarizing military munitions was inaugurated Wednesday in central France by MBDA for the French Ministry of Defense. The facility - two years in the building - will allow France to comply with a 2009 United Nations treaty that requires signatory members to dismantle their stockpiles of cluster bombs by 2018. "The new facility represents an investment of arou ... more |  |
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 US military admits secret presence in Somalia Washington (AFP) July 03, 2014 - The US military has secretly maintained forces in Somalia since 2007, despite earlier public statements claiming it had no presence in the country until last October, defense officials said Thursday. The United States has deployed up to 120 troops in the African nation and hopes to bolster its security ties to Somalia's government as it battles Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants, a defense off ... more |  |
New Saab facility in Australia officially opened Adelaide, Australia (UPI) Jul 3, 2013 - Saab's Australian subsidiary has opened an Advanced Maritime Systems Center as part of the parent company's naval systems integration program. The center opened this week is located in Adelaide in a ceremony officiated by Australian Defense Minister David Johnston. "I am very pleased to officially open the Advanced Maritime Systems Center," he said. "It has been fantastic ... more |  |
 Bloody swath Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2014 - From Pakistan on the Arabian Sea to landlocked Afghanistan to Iraq at the heart of the Middle East, to Syria and Gaza on the Mediterranean, the Muslim world is ablaze, fanned by the flames of religious extremism. Arguably the most dangerous is Pakistan, keeper of Islam's only nuclear arsenal. And the country's powerful military - that has ruled Pakistan for half its existence as an ind ... more |  |
 China, S. Korea summit pushes North over nuclear weapons Seoul (AFP) July 03, 2014 - China and South Korea issued a joint call for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula at a summit in Seoul Thursday that was seen as a pointed snub of nuclear-armed North Korea by chief ally Beijing. In a joint statement after their talks, the Chinese and South Korean presidents, Xi Jinping and Park Geun-Hye, reaffirmed their "firm opposition" to the development of nuclear weapons on th ... more |  |
 NATO's weakest flank and softest underbelly -- and what to do about it Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2014 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created in 1949 to contain and deter Soviet aggression, has been the most successful defensive military alliance in history. Through forty years of Cold War, military planning focused on preventing and blocking a Soviet military assault across the north German plain while reinforcing the so-called northern and southern flanks of the alliance immed ... more |  |
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 Merger in store for French, German defense companies Versailles, France (UPI) Jul 2, 2013 - Two major European Defense enterprises are merging their businesses as early as next year through a joint holding company. The merger deal is between Germany's Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Nexter Systems of France, providers of land defense systems. "The alliance of KMW and Nexter creates a group with the momentum and innovative force required to succeed and prosper in international ... more |  |
Lockheed Martin, Zeta Associates in acquisition deal Bethesda, Md. (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 - Lockheed Martin has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Zeta Associates, a specialist in systems for information collection, processing, and dissemination. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed but Lockheed said the move enhances its space and intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance portfolio. "Zeta Associates' expertise in cross-platform information collectio ... more |  |
Kuwait wants U.S. assistance for military hospital Washington (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 - Kuwait has asked the United States for a Foreign Military Sales contract for facilities and construction support for a military hospital. The request, which has received approval from the State Department, was relayed to Congress by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency. "The government of Kuwait has requested a possible sale for the design, construction, procurement of me ... more |  |
 Iraq Kurd chief wants independence referendum Baghdad (AFP) July 03, 2014 - The leader of Iraq's Kurds set the ball rolling Thursday for a referendum on their long-held dream of independence, another setback for international efforts to unite the country's politicians against a militant offensive. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki broadened an amnesty offer aimed at undercutting support for jihadists, whose onslaught has have overrun areas of the country and ... more |  |
Iraqi forces will need help to roll back militants: US Washington (AFP) July 03, 2014 - The US military's top officer said Thursday that Iraqi forces had shored up their defenses against Sunni militants but would be hard-pressed to regain territory without outside help. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said American advisers were still evaluating the state of the Iraqi army, and he suggested US military action was not imminent. Dempsey told ... more |  |
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Freed Turkish truck drivers back home after Iraq ordeal Ankara (AFP) July 03, 2014 - Thirty-two Turkish truck drivers held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq flew back home to Turkey on Thursday following their release after three weeks in captivity, local officials said. A Turkish plane carrying the truck drivers from the northern Iraqi city of Arbil landed in Turkey's southeastern province of Sanliurfa near the Syrian border late on Thursday. But a separate group o ... more |  |
Gyroscope production milestone for Northrop Grumman Salt Lake City (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 - Northrop Grumman reports it has produced the 50,000th G-2000 tactical gyroscope, which is used on U.S. missiles and other systems. The gyroscope is billed by the company as the world's smallest tactical grade, dynamically-tuned gyroscope in production. It has been produced at the company's facility in Utah since the 1990s. In addition to its use for missile and torpedo guidance, ... more |  |
 Norwegian government contracts Kongsberg for JSF missile Kongsberg, Norway (UPI) Jul 3, 2013 - Norwegian defense company Kongsberg Defense has signed a new contract with the government for continued development of the Joint Strike Missile for use on F-35 aircraft. The missile for engaging targets at long distances will also be capable of usage by other types of aircraft. "This contract is an important milestone not only for the JSM as a product and for Kongsberg, but also ... more |  |
 Northrop Grumman received new order for E-2D aircraft Falls Church, Va. (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 - Northrop Grumman is to produce 25 more E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning aircraft for the U.S. Navy under a multi-year contract, the company announced. The E-2D, which provides 360-degree surveillance capability though the use of AN/APY-9 radar, was specifically designed for use from an aircraft carrier. "The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is the Navy's primary airborne early warning an ... more |  |
China to release daily Japanese war crimes 'confession' Beijing (AFP) July 03, 2014 - China began publishing "confessions" of 45 convicted Japanese World War II criminals on Thursday, officials said, in Beijing's latest effort to highlight the past amid a territorial dispute between the two countries. The documents, handwritten by Japanese tried and convicted by military courts in China after the war, are being released online one a day for 45 days by the State Archives Admin ... more |  |
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