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  Washington DC (VOA) Aug 27, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence is in Houston, Texas, to reaffirm the Trump administration's plans to establish an American Space Force by 2020, return Americans to the moon, and set its sight on Mars and beyond. During a speech Thursday at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Pence said that recent Pentagon reports have shown that China is "aggressively weaponizing space" and that Russia is developing weapons to "counter America's space capabilities." Pence said the Department of Defense is moving forwar ... read more |
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US Navy marks return of Cold War-era fleetWashington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 The US Navy on Friday marked the official resurrection of a disbanded, Cold War-era fleet that was scrapped in 2011 and is returning amid heightened tensions with Russia. ... more  
Iran defence minister in Damascus, says will help rebuild SyriaDamascus (AFP) Aug 26, 2018 Iran's top defence official met Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and its defence minister on Sunday in Damascus, hailing their strong ties and pledging to contribute to the war-torn country's reconstruction. ... more 
China slams 'irresponsible' Trump accusations over N. KoreaBeijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2018 China on Saturday called Donald Trump "irresponsible" after the US president cancelled his top diplomat's trip to North Korea and suggested Beijing was stalling efforts to disarm Pyongyang. ... more 
Trump calls off Pompeo's NKorea trip, blasts ChinaWashington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 US President Donald Trump on Friday pulled the plug on his top diplomat's upcoming trip to North Korea - and took a swipe at China over stalled efforts to disarm Kim Jong Un's regime. ... more |
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Afghan officials say Islamic State leader killed by airstrikesKabul (AFP) Aug 26, 2018 The leader of the Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan was killed by airstrikes over the weekend along with 10 other people, government officials said Sunday following a string of deadly attacks by the extremist group. ... more  
General Atomics receives contract for MQ-9 drones for FranceWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been awarded a contract for $123 million for the French 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 program. ... more  
Raytheon, Lockheed receive contract for Javelin missile upgradesWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 Raytheon and Lockheed Martin's Javelin joint venture company has received a $14 million contract modification for Javelin Weapon System modernization. ... more  
GEOStar-3 mission success enabled by Aerojet Rocketdyne XR-5 Hall Thruster SystemSacramento CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne and Northrop Grumman together recently achieved a significant milestone with the successful completion of electric propulsion orbit acquisition operations on the Al Yah 3 GEOStar- ... more  
NASA Langley collaborates with industry to develop space technologiesHampton VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 NASA is partnering with U.S. companies and small businesses to develop technologies that have the potential to significantly benefit the economy and future NASA missions. Recent announcements ... more |
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Face recognition nabs fake passport user at US airportWashington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 Facial recognition technology was credited with the arrest this week of a man attempting to use a fake passport to enter the United States at Washington's Dulles airport, officials said. ... more  |
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US taps ex-prosecutor as watchdog over China's ZTEWashington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 A former US federal prosecutor will serve as the legal watchdog over Chinese telecoms giant ZTE, which narrowly avoided collapse after being hit with US sanctions, the Commerce Department announced Friday. ... more 
Tech giants aim to coordinate fight on misinformation: reportWashington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 Major technology firms including Facebook, Google and Twitter were set to meet Friday as part of an effort to coordinate the battle against misinformation campaigns by foreign agents, a media report said. ... more  
Aeolus wind satellite launchedKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 23, 2018 ESA's Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite has been launched into polar orbit on a Vega rocket. Using revolutionary laser technology, Aeolus will measure winds around the globe and play a key role in our ... more  
John McCain, US war hero and political maverick, dead at 81Washington (AFP) Aug 26, 2018 John McCain, a war hero and towering figure in US politics known for reaching across the aisle in an increasingly divided nation, died on Saturday following a battle with brain cancer. He was 81. ... more 
UN court hears Iran's challenge against US sanctionsThe Hague (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 Iran's legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN's top court Monday, as Tehran seeks to avert painful punitive measures that could hurt its still fragile economy. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2018 
TOTE Services of Jacksonville, Fla., has received an $11 million contract for operation and maintenance of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar vessel.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, will last one year with four-and-a-half years worth of possible options, which could bring the cumulative value of this contract to $65.3 million, the Pentagon said.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin's Javelin joint venture company has received a $14 million contract modification for Javelin Weapon System modernization.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., with an estimated completion date of September 2020. Army fiscal 2017 and 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been awarded a contract for $123 million for the French 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 program.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Poway, Calif., and is expected to be completed by May 2020. The program falls under a foreign military sale to France.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 
Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have developed a wireless transmission data link that can transmit 100 gigabits per second over more than 12 miles in a urban area.
The two-way data-link which features active tacking was tested in Los Angeles last January, Northrop Grumman announced on Tuesday. The link's transmission speed can vary from 9g ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency received its first order of precision-guided munitions acquired through a NATO program involving 11 members and partners.
The PGMs are manufactured in the United States and will be delivered to Belgium and Denmark in the next several weeks, NATO announced on Wednesday. The value of the initial order is $20 million.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 18, 2018 
The bomb that killed 40 children and 11 others in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen was sold by the United States under a State Department deal with Riyadh, CNN has reported.
The numbers on shrapnel, of which images were taken shortly after the attack this month, indicate that it was a laser-guided Mk 82 bomb manufactured by defense contractor Lockheed Ma ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018  The United States on Thursday accused China of destabilizing cross-Strait relations following the announcement this week that El Salvador would end diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing.
"The United States will continue to oppose China's destabilization of the cross-Strait relationship and political interference in the Western Hemisphere," the White House said in a statement.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that "good things come in small packages."
Today's engineered nanoparticles are integral components of everything from the quantum dot nanocrystals coloring the brilliant displays of state-of-the-art televisions to the miniscule bits of s ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 23, 2018  A UN team of investigators has begun work in Iraq aimed at collecting evidence on the massacres of the Yazidi minority and other atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, according to a letter released Thursday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in the letter sent August 17 that the investigators led by British human rights lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan wo ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 
US President Donald Trump on Friday pulled the plug on his top diplomat's upcoming trip to North Korea - and took a swipe at China over stalled efforts to disarm Kim Jong Un's regime.
"I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Trump sa ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
U.S. President Trump is admired for fulfilling campaign promises, but some of those actions are harming his own ambitions on energy, a trade group said.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to "use every tool under American and international law to end these (trade) abuses." Nearly two years into his term, he's made good on that pledge by targeting North American, European and Chinese ... more |
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 Kochi, India (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 
Leaders of flood-stricken Kerala state angrily hit out at India's national government Thursday for rejecting a $100 million aid offer from the United Arab Emirates as more people entered relief camps to escape the devastation.
More than 1.3 million people have now packed into temporary camps even though the floods, which have left at least 420 dead and missing, are fast receding.
The New ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 23, 2018  An anaesthetist gassed his wife and daughter to death using a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide, a Hong Kong court has heard.
Prosecutors told the High Court that Khaw Kim-sun left the inflatable ball in the boot of a car where the gas leaked out and killed them, according to reports from court Wednesday.
His wife and 16-year-old daughter were found on a roadside in a locked yellow M ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 23, 2018  Dramatically weakened on the ground, the Islamic State group faces military defeat in its one-time "caliphate" - but experts say it is almost impossible to know how many members it still has.
Online, IS propaganda claims it is undefeated in what's left of its territory - a small patch of eastern Syria - which is a fraction of the land it once controlled spanning the war-wracked country an ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
The U.S. Army awarded Dynetics, Lockheed Martin and its partners a $10 million contract to continue development for the next phase of the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) program, a 100-kilowatt class laser weapon system.
Laser weapons are ideally suited to address high volume, low cost threats because of their inexpensive cost per shot and deep magazine. Team Dyne ... more |
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