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Arecibo - Nov 13, 2003Despite evidence from two space probes in the 1990s, radar astronomers say they can find no signs of thick ice at the moon's poles. If there is water at the lunar poles, the researchers say, it is widely scattered and permanently frozen inside the dust layers, something akin to terrestrial permafrost. Frequency Electronics Gets Million Dollar Quartz Radio Contract 
Mitchel Field - Nov 11, 2003Frequency Electronics, Inc. said Monday it has been awarded a $2.3 million space contract for an integrated ultra stable quartz oscillator and microwave receiver system. The system will be launched on a geosynchronous satellite for use by a U.S. government agency. |
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New Integrated Battle Management Concepts Validated
Melbourne - Nov 11, 2003A Northrop Grumman-led team has moved the U.S. Air Force a critical step closer to developing and deploying the battle management command and control (BMC2) subsystem for the E-10A multisensor command and control aircraft. The E-10A is envisioned as a central node in the Air Force's planned Command and Control Constellation, a network of airborne and space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors that will provide timely information to warfighters. Missile Defense Agency Selects OSC For Target Launch Vehicle Contract 
Dulles - Nov 10, 2003Orbital Sciences Corporation said Friday that it has been awarded a $19 million contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Targets and Countermeasures office in Huntsville, AL for the Medium Range Target (MRT) launch vehicle program. German Firm Wins Order For Custom Built Lithium Batteries For SUAVs 
Plymouth Meeting - Nov 10, 2003Lithium Technology Corporation, has received a purchase order to produce an initial battery pack for an all-electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [UAV] manufactured by Views-On-High, Inc. Crackdown On Bioterror Backfiring As Leading Scientist Faces Court 
London - Nov 10, 2003Last week, a respected biologist was led into a Texas courtroom. He faces no fewer than 68 charges and could end up in jail for the rest of his life. Has the FBI finally caught the anthrax attacker? No. Thomas Butler merely reported that 30 vials of plague bacteria had gone missing from his laboratory at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, reports British science weekly New Scientist. Germany Adopts KVH M100 Unjammable Tactical Navigation System As Standard 
Middletown - Nov 07, 2003KVH Industries said Thursday that the German Army has named the KVH M100 Ground Mobility Enhanced Navigation System (GMENS) a standard product in the German Army procurement system. With the new German designation "Navigationsanlage Kfz digitaler Kompass," the M100 has completed all formal testing and is now available for fielding by any German Army vehicle program with the need and the funding. Navy Selects Harris For $85 Million Advanced EHF SatCom Terminal Study 
Melbourne - Nov 07, 2003Harris has been selected for a 30-month program, with a potential $85 million value, by the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, California, to develop four prototypes for the next-generation Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multi-band Terminal (NMT). Hungary And Czech Republic Sign Up For Ground Surveillance Program 
Budapest - Nov 05, 2003The Transatlantic Industrial Proposed Solution (TIPS) for the NATO alliance ground surveillance (AGS) program has successfully secured another two industry memoranda of understanding with the Czech Republic and Hungary industry associations in signing ceremonies on Nov. 3 and 4 respectively. |
Powell Presses Nicaragua To Destroy Anti-Aircraft Missiles
Managua (AFP) - Nov 04, 2003US Secretary of State Colin Powell pressed Nicaragua to destroy thousands of Soviet-era shoulder-fired missiles the United States believes are unnecessary and pose an unreasonable threat. Atlas 5 Gets Go-Ahead For Wideband Launch In 2005 
Mclean - Nov 04, 2003The U.S. Air Force has authorized International Launch Services (ILS) to begin integrating the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite #3 (WGS-3) with the Atlas V rocket, as the second mission ordered from the company under the government's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. WGS-3 is planned for launch in early 2006 on the Atlas V vehicle built by Lockheed Martin. Raytheon Awarded $59 Million in Contract Extension for Global Broadcast Service 
Reston - Nov 04, 2003Raytheon Company has been awarded an additional $59 million to its Global Broadcast Service (GBS) contract by the U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom, AFB, Mass., extending services through December 2005. Raytheon will perform the work at various customer sites with management and administrative support out of its Reston, Va., facility. Boeing Awarded Contract for GMD Block 2004 Capability Enhancement 
St. Louis - Nov 04, 2003The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Boeing an $823,040,235 cost-plus-award-fee contract modification for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Block 2004 Capability Enhancement Program. French Military Uses Trimble GPS for Surveying 
Sunnyvale - Oct 31, 2003Trimble has been selected to provide GPS surveying systems for the French Military with operational forces in support roles from the Services des Programmes d'Observation, de Telecommunication et d'Information (SPOTI), part of the Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA), are using the surveying systems. US Develops Lethal New Viruses 
London - Oct 30, 2003The British science journal New Scientist reports that a scientist funded by the US government has deliberately created an extremely deadly form of mousepox, a relative of the smallpox virus, through genetic engineering. The new virus kills all mice even if they have been given antiviral drugs as well as a vaccine that would normally protect them. |
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