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Analysis: A New Era Of Defense For Japan
 WASHINGTON DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2004
In the aftermath of World War II, Japan pledged to forever renounce war, writing into the Constitution a prohibition against maintaining any military forces or other war-making potential. In the post-9/ll era, however, members of the Japanese Parliament now say that an amendment allowing the formation of armed forces is both critical and inevitable.

Annual Grecian Firebolt Connects With Signal Transformation
Fort Meade MD (SPX) Jul 21, 2004
Information dominance as it applies to Signal requires technological superiority, which is gained through the continuing transformation of Signal operations.
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Kashmir Violence Greets India-Pakistan Talks
New Delhi (UPI) Jul 20, 2004
Pakistan's new prime minister pledged Tuesday to pursue peace talks with neighboring India to resolve all outstanding disputes, including Kashmir.

Analysis: Putin Fires Generals Over Chechnya
 WASHINGTON DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2004
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired his top Army general, launching what appears to be a far-ranging shakeup sparked by his army's failure break or even rein in a renewed wave of violence in and around Chechnya.

Cold War Group Revived To Fight Terror
 WASHINGTON DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2004
An organization originally created to combat communist expansion in the 1950s was reincarnated on Capitol Hill as another participant in the war against terrorism.

Outside View The War Of Ideas -- Part 2
 WASHINGTON DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2004
The deep goals and assumptions upon which the war of ideas is based tend to be uncritically, even unconsciously accepted by the people of the United States. But our existential belief in their rightness may come across to others -- inhabiting a different belief system -- as an almost religious ideology, which we will unbendingly impose on them.

Commentary: Defeating Terror Multilaterally
New York (UPI) Jul 20, 2004
To prevent new catastrophic attacks, and ultimately defeat terrorism, the next administration must develop a comprehensive strategy comprised of 10 distinct domestic and international policy agendas to be acted on simultaneously. The following is the fourth of 10 policy papers: Multilateralism Must be a Strategy of Choice.

Upgraded Global Hawk UAV Achieves First Flight
Farnborough UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2004
The first air vehicle in a new production lot of upgraded RQ-4A Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicles made its maiden flight on July 1. Designated AF-3, the newest Global Hawk flew from Northrop Grumman Corporation's manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif., to the Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base.

Thales UK Team Selected as Preferred Bidder for Watchkeeper
Haifa Israel (SPX) Jul 20, 2004
Elbit Systems Ltd. reported today that the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced the selection of Thales UK as preferred bidder for the next phase of the acquisition cycle of the Watchkeeper programme. Elbit Systems is a significant part of the Thales UK team selected for the programme.

Cubic To Participate In MoD's Watchkeeper Programme
Farnborough UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2004
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Tuesday the selection of Thales UK as the preferred bidder for the next phase of the acquisition cycle of the Watchkeeper programme. Cubic Defense Applications is a key part of the Thales UK team selected for the programme.

Nortel Networks, Cogent Supply Packet-Based Solutions For UK Military Network
London (SPX) Jul 20, 2004
Nortel Networks and Cogent, a UK-based systems integrator focused on military networks, will deliver a multiservice packet-based transport infrastructure as part of a next generation military satellite network for the government of the United Kingdom.

Aegis Weapon System Delivers Aboard US Navy Destroyer James E. Williams
Pascagoula MO (SPX) Jul 20, 2004
The seventh generation of the Lockheed Martin-developed Aegis Weapon System successfully completed an extensive battery of testing in a single two-day at- sea period aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer James E. Williams (DDG- 95).

European And Asian Firms Can Join Missile Defense Industry: NG CEO
Berlin (SPX) Jul 20, 2004
An unprecedented opportunity now exists for the international community to participate in the development of a global, collective missile-defense system, Northrop Grumman CEO, President, and Chairman Ronald Sugar said here today at the International Missile Defense Symposium hosted by the US Missile Defense Agency and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Analysis UC's Los Alamos Contract At Stake
 WASHINGTON (UPI) Jul 19, 2004
The latest revelations of missing files and mishandled e-mail messages may further jeopardize the University of California's chances of retaining its longtime administrative contract at the famed Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico.

Light-Speed Raytheon AESA Radar Navigates Smoothly Through Flight Tests
China Lake CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004
A revolutionary Raytheon radar that scans the skies at nearly the speed of light is navigating through flight tests aboard the US. Navy F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet in anticipation of operational readiness by September 2006.

Raytheon's ATFLIR Targeting Pod For US Navy Hornets Get Delivered And Deployed
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004
Raytheon Company had delivered 55 of what might be considered the ultimate accessory to aircrews of the US Navy F/A-18 Hornet.

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