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  Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the Solid State High Power Laser Weapon System Demonstrator program. The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $21.5 million under the terms of a cost-plus fixed fee contract, which is a modification to a previous award. The modified contract brings the total cumulative value to more than $144.9 million, according to the Defense Department. The Solid State ... read more |
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Navy turns to Raytheon for radar upgradesWashington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 Raytheon was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for air and missile defense radar and other technological upgrades. ... more  
Spoiler alert: Xi unlikely to lose term limit voteBeijing (AFP) March 9, 2018 Public pressure, heated debate and a nail-biting vote: Don't expect any of that when Chinese legislators cast historic ballots on lifting presidential term limits on Sunday. ... more  
Iran bars widow of dead environmentalist from leavingTehran (AFP) March 8, 2018 Tehran has barred the widow of an Iranian-Canadian environmentalist who died in prison from leaving the country, drawing protests from Ottawa and her family. ... more 
Trump and Kim to hold historic meetingWashington (AFP) March 9, 2018 President Donald Trump agreed Thursday to a historic first meeting with Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America's high-stakes nuclear standoff with North Korea. ... more |
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FARC withdrawing from Colombian presidential raceBogota (AFP) March 8, 2018 Colombia's FARC said Thursday it is pulling out of the country's presidential race after its candidate, 59-year-old ex-guerrilla leader Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londono, suffered a heart attack. ... more  
Fight against Islamic State evolves following battlefield winsLondon (AFP) March 8, 2018 The fight against the Islamic State group is now more focused on stabilising captured areas and identifying returning foreign jihadis following the capture of Mosul and Raqqa, officials in the US-led coalition fighting the network said Thursday. ... more  
Iraqi women 'reclaim their rights' with Mosul marathonMosul, Iraq (AFP) March 8, 2018 Nearly 300 women ran through the streets of Iraq's Mosul on Thursday, in a demonstration of their freedoms eight months after the city was retaken from the Islamic State group. ... more 
Israel ultra-Orthodox Jews rally against military serviceJerusalem (AFP) March 8, 2018 Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested Thursday in Jerusalem against compulsory military service, clashing with security forces and paralysing traffic by blocking a major road. ... more 
US, Israel forces ready for evolving threats with major drillHatzor Air Base, Israel (AFP) March 8, 2018 US and Israeli commanders overseeing a major joint air defence exercise spoke Thursday of preparing for evolving threats in the Middle East during the month-long drill. ... more |
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US to upgrade Qatar air ops center despite Gulf crisisWashington (AFP) March 8, 2018 The United States has approved a request from Qatar to upgrade the emirate's air force operations center, officials said Thursday, despite the Gulf diplomatic crisis. ... more  |
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S. Korea to probe plans for military crackdown on protestsSeoul (AFP) March 8, 2018 South Korea will investigate allegations that ousted president Park Geun-hye planned to send military troops to quash the candle-lit protests that culminated in her impeachment last year, the defence ministry said Thursday. ... more 
Nobel-winning ICAN condemns surge in nuclear arms investmentsGeneva (AFP) March 7, 2018 Global nuclear tensions helped boost investments in atomic weapons production by around $81 billion last year, campaigners said Wednesday, urging investors to blacklist the companies that stock the world's nuclear arsenals. ... more 
Seoul envoys leave for US with Pyongyang talks offerSeoul (AFP) March 8, 2018 Two South Korean envoys left for Washington Thursday to brief US officials on their landmark visit to Pyongyang and the North's offer to talk about giving up its nuclear arsenal. ... more 
China urges US, N.Korea to hold talks 'sooner than later'Beijing (AFP) March 8, 2018 China's foreign minister urged the United States and North Korea Thursday to start talks as soon as possible, stressing that "the sincerity" of all parties to solve the nuclear crisis would be tested. ... more  
China not trying to 'replace America': foreign ministerBeijing (AFP) March 8, 2018 China's foreign minister sought Thursday to downplay concerns about Beijing's global ambitions, while also hinting at consequences for countries that don't fall in line on issues like Taiwan. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 7, 2018 
Two of Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Cost Reduction Initiative anti-ballistic missile systems intercepted ballistic missiles in a recent test, the Maryland-based defense company said.
The test, conducted at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range and observed by U.S. Army officials, demonstrated the PAC-3 interceptors' ability to seek out and destroy enemy missiles, Loc ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 7, 2018 
The Defense Department has awarded a $13.7 million contract to BAE Systems to increase the production of the company's advanced precision kill weapon system guidance kits.
The APKWS kits effectively turn unguided rockets into precision-guided missiles, and have been in full production for about six years.
BAE's new contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, will pa ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover and survey a breeding colony of over one and a half million penguins.
Michael Polito, assistant professor in the department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU, and co-authors detail their findings in a study published ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 
Airbus has launched near real-time satellite imagery capabilities together with its 24/7 Emergency Image Delivery Service to aid those facing emergency situations. By leveraging the Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) polar ground station in Svalbard, Norway, Pleiades and SPOT constellation images are now retrieved at every orbit, resulting in ultra-fast image deliveries after collection, anywhe ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed the country's new state arms procurement program, which includes, among other things, robotics, intelligence systems, UAVs and precision ammunition.
"Yes, the document has been signed by the president," Rogozin said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, when asked a relevant ques ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2018  China announced on Monday an 8.1 percent defence budget increase for 2018, giving a boost to the modernisation of the world's largest military after spending slowed in the previous two years.
Beijing will splash out 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion) on its military, according to a budget report presented before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress.
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 Washington (AFP) March 8, 2018 
US government agencies are not adequately coordinating efforts to counter the cyber threat from Russia, even as Moscow conducts a "campaign of destabilization," the commander of NATO forces in Europe warned Thursday.
US General Curtis Scaparrotti told lawmakers that Russia is working to break up the NATO alliance, partly through its online operations to spread false information.
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 Raleigh, NC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows them to print circuits on flexible, stretchable substrates using silver nanowires. The advance makes it possible to integrate the material into a wide array of electronic devices.
Silver nanowires have drawn significant interest in recent years for use in many applications, ranging from prosthetic dev ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 8, 2018 
Nearly 300 women ran through the streets of Iraq's Mosul on Thursday, in a demonstration of their freedoms eight months after the city was retaken from the Islamic State group.
Mosul's first ever women's marathon was held to coincide with International Women's Day.
The 900-metre run was not the length of a full marathon, but organiser Fatima Khalaf said it marked a real change for women ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 8, 2018 
South Korea will investigate allegations that ousted president Park Geun-hye planned to send military troops to quash the candle-lit protests that culminated in her impeachment last year, the defence ministry said Thursday.
Activist group the Centre for Military Human Rights Korea (CMHRK), citing multiple leaks, said top military leaders had studied plans to crack down on demonstrators calli ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 8, 2018 
President Donald Trump's team played down talk of a trade war Wednesday as it fought to limit a financial market sell-off, promising a quick decision on contentious tariffs that prompted a popular economic advisor to the president to quit.
Administration big guns Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rushed to the cameras to calm market jitters over proposed ste ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 
The same satellites that identify severe weather can help save you from it. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) constellation monitors Earth's environment, helping meteorologists observe and predict the weather. GOES observations have tracked thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and flash floods. They've even pro ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 9, 2018  Public pressure, heated debate and a nail-biting vote: Don't expect any of that when Chinese legislators cast historic ballots on lifting presidential term limits on Sunday.
The rubber-stamp National People's Congress has never voted against anything the Communist Party has imposed on the legislature in its half-century of existence.
President Xi Jinping is thus all but certain to secure ... more |
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 Buenos Aires (AFP) March 7, 2018 
Reynaldo Bignone, the last president of Argentina's 1976-1983 "Dirty War" military junta, died Wednesday in a military hospital, local media reported. He was 90.
Bignone took power in 1982 after Argentina's disastrous defeat in the Falklands War against Britain, and left power when democracy was restored in 1983.
Some 30,000 people disappeared - presumably killed - under Argentina's mi ... more |
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Mar 02, 2018  The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $150 million contract, with options worth up to $942.8 million, for the development, manufacture and delivery of two high power laser weapon systems, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-Unmanned Aerial System (counter-UAS) capabilities, by fiscal year 2020. With the High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with ... more |
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