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New Defense Budget Rightly Favors Air and Sea Power
The fiscal 2014 proposed defense budget puts the Obama Administration's money where its strategy is. The Air Force and the Navy are the clear beneficiaries in the new budget with virtually all their major programs emerging intact. The Navy will get funding for both the Gerald Ford (CVN-78) and the John F.
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Five-Year Strategic Plan for Defence Science
A blueprint for future scientific advice and technology support to Defence was today launched by the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon. The five-year strategic plan for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) sets out priorities and initiatives designed to enhance DSTO's reputation as a leader in technology innovation and a collaborative partner with industry and the science community.
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29th National Space Symposium
Arianespace's role as a dependable and secure launch services provider for national security payloads was a topic of focus at the 29th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Speaking at the conference, Clayton Mowry - President of the Washington, D.C.-based Arianespace, Inc.
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Pentagon Contract Announcement
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $65,877,538 firm-fixed-price contract for 2,701 Lot 17 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tailkits. Work will be performed at St. Louis, Mo., and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2015. The contract involves foreign military sales (FMS); this effort is 100 percent FMS for Israel.
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Gripens Train Air-to-Air Refuelling from German Tanker Over Czech Mountains
Five JAS-39 Gripen aircraft and six pilots have successfully completed 80 refuelling contacts with German Airbus 310 MRTT tanker in training within ATARES Programme. "The training has increased number of Czech pilots who are able to refuel in the air and advanced capabilities of our flight and, at the same time, advanced combat skills of all the air force," Captain Pavel Pavlik, Deputy Commander of 211th Tactical Flight says.
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Première diminution des dépenses militaires mondiales depuis 1998
© Commonwealth of Australia Dans un rapport publié ce lundi 15 avril, le Sipri constate une érosion globale des dépenses militaires... à l'exception de la Chine et de la Russie. 1 750 milliards de dollars. C'est la somme qui a été réservée par l'ensemble des pays aux dépenses militaires en 2012, selon une récente étude du Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).
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Intelligence Budget Requests for 2014 Disclosed
Intelligence Budget Requests for 2014 Disclosed (Source; Federation of American Scientists Secrecy Blog; posted April 11, 2013) Some $4 billion is being cut from the National Intelligence Program this year as a result of sequestration, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the House Intelligence Committee at a hearing today.
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Pentagon Contract Announcement
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded an $8,627,879 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-11-C-0026) services in support of the Phase II AIM-9X System Improvement Program for the Air Force, Navy, and the government of Saudi Arabia, including hardware and software development activities and implementation of security architecture requirements.
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U.S., German Army Leaders See Scientific Collaboration Crucial to Military Success
U.S., German Army Leaders See Scientific Collaboration Crucial to Military Success (Source: U.S Army; issued April 12, 2013) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. --- The U.S. Army and Germany's ministry of defence's senior executives that are responsible for research and technology programs met at Aberdeen Proving Ground, April 9-10, as part of ongoing discussions to expand collaborative research efforts to adopt or develop technological capabilities to meet far-reaching future military needs.
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Opération transparence pour l'armée chinoise
Par François Bougon La Chine a révélé, mardi 16 avril, la structure de son armée dans son "Livre blanc de la défense", le huitième depuis 1998, selon l'agence officielle Chine nouvelle, tout en s'inquiétant de la présence croissante des Etats-Unis dans la région Asie-Pacifique.
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Press Release
Press Release (Source: Finmeccanica; issued April 15, 2013) ROME --- The Shareholders' Meeting of Finmeccanica Spa, which met today in Rome, under the chairmanship of Admiral Guido Venturoni, made the following decisions: - To appoint Mr Ivanhoe Lo Bello, who was already co-opted by the Board of Directors on 16 May 2012 ex Art.
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USAF Secretary: Sequestration Would Pose Huge Challenge for Service
WASHINGTON - Top U.S. Air Force leaders had a simple message Friday for lawmakers: The service's latest budget plan is sufficient - but that soon will change unless sequestration is turned off. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley told the House Armed Services Committee the service's 2014 budget request is "relatively stable" when compared with its 2013 funding level.
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Arrival of the Specialist Trainers - EUTM Mali
The first of them was the Hungarian team, numbering6 in total. They are in charge of teaching the elite shooters. They arrived in Bamako along with 4 Greek intelligence trainers. Having spent the night in the capital of Mali, they went to Koulikoro training camp on the morning of Saturday 13 th April.
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Largest European military exercise underway - News stories - Inside Government - GOV.UK
Involving more than 40 warships, 40 fixed-wing aircraft and 30 helicopters from the UK, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Germany, over 12,000 personnel are taking part in Exercise Joint Warrior.
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