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GAO, CBO Warn About Future Combat System Washington (UPI) Apr 07, 2006 
Two government agencies are cautioning the Pentagon on risks in the Army's $161 billion Future Combat System. The Congressional Budget Office warned this week that by 2015 the Army will have to spend $10 billion a year -- a third of its entire procurement budget -- buying the system.
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Weaponization Of Space Will Have Unpredictable Consequences
Moscow (RIA) Apr 07, 2006Colonel Anthony Russo, chief of the U.S. Strategic Command's space and global strike division, said Wednesday the time was ripe for clearly stipulating the Pentagon's responsibility for the security of the national space group. Unmanned SkyTote Demonstrates Capabilities 
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Apr 07, 2006Air Force Research Laboratory scientists are working on a novel unmanned aerial vehicle called SkyTote that will take off and land vertically like a helicopter, but also transition into horizontal flight like a conventional aircraft. Boeing UUV Indicates Compatibility, Utility With US Navy Submarines 
St Louis MO (SPX) Apr 07, 2006Boeing has successfully completed a second round of at-sea tests of its Long-term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS), a 20-foot unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) designed to be launched, torpedo-style, from Los Angeles- and Virginia-class submarines to survey underwater objects for up to 60 hours. |
Iran Hypes War Games In Gulf Oil Corridor
Tehran (AFP) Apr 07, 2006The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards played up Thursday the significance of its war games in the narrow neck in the Gulf through which two-fifths of the world's oil trade passes. "The importance of the ... maneuvers lies in the time and geographical place they are happening as well as the arms used," General Yahya Rahim Safavi told the official IRNA news agency. NKorean Nuclear Negotiators To Meet In Tokyo 
Tokyo (AFP) Apr 07, 2006Japan on Thursday approved a rare visit by a senior North Korean official, bringing together chief negotiators from all six nations in the stalled talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear drive. Iraq's Last Chance For Peace 
Washington (UPI) Apr 07, 2006As Iraq teeters on the brink of civil war and remains unable to form a government of national unity more than four months after the elections, Jordan said it would host a conference aimed at defusing the volatile situation across its eastern border. |
ManTech Awarded JSF Contract
Fairfax VA (SPX) Apr 05, 2006ManTech International Corporation has been awarded a contract from the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency, Logistics Enterprise Support Program for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Single Point of Entry (SPOE) Operational Prototype. LockMart Develops JASSM Cruise Missile Weapon Data Link 
Orlando FL (SPX) Apr 07, 2006Lockheed Martin received a U.S. Air Force task order totaling more than $32 million for the development of a Weapon Data Link (WDL) capability that will enable the extended-range JASSM system to engage relocatable and time-critical targets. The JASSM air-to-surface standoff missile system is the world's first stealthy conventional cruise missile. GLONASS To Be Finished Year Ahead Of Schedule 
Moscow (RIA) Apr 07, 2006Russia's global navigation satellite system for military and civilian use will be completed a year earlier than planned, the defense minister said Thursday. "We should launch the GLONASS system over [Russia] in 2008, and not in 2009," Sergei Ivanov, who is also deputy prime minister, told a government session. |
US Allies Embrace BMD
Washington (UPI) Apr 07, 2006A senior State Department official this week spelled out how international ballistic missile defense cooperation is reviving U.S. strategic alliances around the world. International Anti-Terror Exercise Opens In Australia 
Sydney (AFP) Apr 07, 2006An international anti-terror exercise began in northern Australia Thursday as Defence Minister Brendan Nelson warned that his country and others faced the "very real threat" of attacks. Australia, Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States are taking part in the three-day exercise that simulates an air interception of weapons of mass destruction. BAE Systems To Sell Airbus Stake, EADS Likely Buyers 
London (AFP) Apr 07, 2006British defence and aerospace giant BAE Systems is set to sell its 20 percent stake in aircraft maker Airbus, most likely to its Franco-German counterpart EADS, the BBC reported on Thursday. The news prompted union leaders to seek urgent talks with BAE because Airbus directly employs some 13,000 people in Britain. |
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