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Bush And Abe OK Faster BMD Cooperation Washington DC (UPI) Nov 21, 2006 
It's official: The United States and Japan are boosting their already strong cooperation on ballistic missile defense development. New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President George W. Bush publicly announced their commitment to further accelerating the speed of the program after holding bilateral talks Saturday while attending the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. "We agreed to strengthen and accelerate cooperation in ballistic missile defense and we will instruct our foreign and defense ministers to study this matter," Abe said after the meeting.
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Abe Asks Denmark To Oppose Arms Sales To China
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 21, 2006Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday asked Denmark to keep an eye on China's military spending, reiterating Tokyo's opposition to European moves to sell weapons to Beijing. "China's economic growth is a big chance for Japan and the world," Abe told his Danish counterpart Anders Fogh Rasmussen in an hour-long summit in Tokyo, as quoted by a Japanese official. LM-Built DSCS Satellites Mark 175 Years On Orbit 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2006A U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team have announced that the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III constellation, which provides vital communications capabilities to America's military forces worldwide, has surpassed 175-years of on-orbit service. Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment Reaches Development Milestone 
Suffolk VA (SPX) Nov 22, 2006U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) recently reached the next milestone in the development of a tool that will help open even more lines of communication for the joint warfighter. The Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment (CDCIE) completed phase one of the National Security Agency (NSA) Certification Test and Evaluation (CT&E). Phase one testing was designed to ensure CDCIE provides access to the warfighter wherever secure cross-domain text is required. |
III MEF Units Transition To New Mobile Communications System
Camp Foster, Japan (SPX) Nov 22, 2006Nearly 50 Marines from communication units throughout III Marine Expeditionary Force learned the ins and outs of an advanced field communications system recently during a month-long training evolution at the Marine Wing Communication 18 Maintenance Facility on Camp Foster. Interagency Cooperation Improves Space Communications 
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Nov 22, 2006Air Force Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office put into motion a plan to improve interagency cooperation between space agencies by conducting a senior officer and a senior civilian exchange between AFSPC Headquarters here and the NRO Headquarters in Chantilly, Va. Navy Dreams 
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 20, 2006Last week, for three days running, the Washington Times carried front-page stories about the interception of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the Kitty Hawk, by a Chinese submarine. The submarine, a Song-class diesel-electric boat, popped up undetected in the middle of a carrier battle group, which was operating in deep water off Okinawa. Armed with Russian-made wake-homing torpedo's that can ruin a carrier's day, the sub was well within range of the Kitty Hawk when it surfaced. |
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The Mechanics Of Better Bullet Proofing
Manhattan KS (SPX) Nov 22, 2006Body armor with greater ballistics resistance is the aim of the research being carried out by Youqi Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Kansas State University, with support from two U.S. Department of Defense agencies. iRobot Awarded Additional TSWG Funding 
Burlington MA (SPX) Nov 22, 2006iRobot has announced it was awarded an additional $1.6 million in funding from the U.S. government's Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) for development, training and field testing of the iRobot Warrior(tm) robot, formerly known as NEOMover. Since 2002, iRobot has received more than $8 million in development contracts from TSWG to develop a number of next-generation robot technologies. Warrior is expected to be ready for deployment in 2008. Russian Mil-Sat Burnt Up After Mission Completed 
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Nov 22, 2006A Russian military satellite was de-orbited and burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere on Monday after its mission was completed, a Space Forces spokesman said. "The mission of the Cosmos-2423 satellite was accomplished. The satellite was de-orbited. It ceased to exist and was burnt up in the atmosphere," the spokesman, Alexei Kuznetsov, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. Kuznetsov denied media reports that the satellite had malfunctioned. |
Afghanistan Decides Security
Berlin (UPI) Nov 21, 2006British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the world's security depends on success in Afghanistan, but Washington and others feel not all countries part of ISAF are doing as much as they could. The battle for Afghanistan has entered its bloodiest year yet. Some 180 coalition soldiers have died in 2006, most of them U.S., Canadian and British troops, many of them killed in the months since June when fighting with the Taliban escalated. Musharraf Wants Meaningful Talks With Indian PM 
Karachi (AFP) Nov 21, 2006President Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday he is looking forward to "substantive" talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he visits Pakistan. Musharraf told reporters in this southern port city that the two countries need to resolve all outstanding disputes, including Kashmir, the reason for two of their three wars. Time For Madrid Talks Part II 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 22, 2006Renewed Israeli incursions into Gaza have sparked a bout of Qassam rocket fire from Palestinian militants that make peace talks seem further away than ever, but some experts with experience on the diplomatic front say aspects of the status quo present a singular opportunity. "Weakness is the name of the new game," said former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin at a recent forum in Washington, to assess the current stagnation of high-level peace talks. |
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