Tracking Laser Overcomes Atmospheric Distortion Far Longer Than Required For High-Power Laser To Demolish An Enemy Missile The Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system scored another success, ironically just as Congress is considering President Obama's plan to turn the ABL into nothing more than ...
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The Airborne Laser (ABL) is proceeding well toward a successful shoot-down of a target missile later this year, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), said. "We are in very good shape in achieving that, at this time," he said. He spoke before a ...
North Threatens 'Action' If Its Ships Are Boarded Under New U.N. Resolution To Curb Pyongyang Proliferation North Korea, fresh from launching missiles of varying ranges and testing a nuclear weapon in an underground blast, lurched into newly bellicose threats by vowing to reprocess more plutonium ...
Proponents of a dependable U.S. missile defense system of systems shouldn't worry about the $1.2 billion of cuts to missile defense programs that President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have sent to Congress, a military analyst argues. Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow with the ...
President Obama should provide strong support to the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system if he wishes to avert a growing danger of a nuclear arms race sweeping across the Middle East, an advocacy group leader said. Riki Ellison, chairman and founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy ...
China is flexing its muscle with a huge naval transformation, including acquisition of strategic platforms that mean the most populous nation on Earth is becoming a blue-water navy, with power to deny access to U.S. and other nations. So said Larry Wortzel, vice chairman of the U.S.-China Economic ...
Updated -- June 13, 2009 - 1:10 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: To be determined Mission: STS-127 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A Description: Space shuttle Endeavour ...
By Emelie Rutherford House authorizing subcommittees began crafting the Pentagon's fiscal year 2010 budget yesterday, proposing to match the Obama administration's missile-defense request and boost its Special Operations Command (SOCOM) proposal to include the command's wish-list of unfunded items. ...
EADS North America and its subsidiary, American Eurocopter, said they've selected five companies to make up the industry team providing components and subsystems for the UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter Security and Support (S&S) mission equipment package (MEP). The companies are: L-3 ...
DISA Awards SAIC Potential $21M Task Order for Info Assurance Support The Pentagon's Defense Information Systems Agency, Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, has awarded Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] a potential $21 million prime task order to provide ...