U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), the Defense Department's supply chain overseer, in July began using container security devices (CSDs) supplied by an industry team in order add a layer of security to military shipments in the Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) theater of operations. Use of ...
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By Geoff Fein While DDG-1000 can carry and shoot off the Standard Missile-2 (SM), it can't, as currently configured, communicate with the SM once it is fired, according to a top Navy official. The inability of DDG-1000 to "talk" with SM-2 is one of several reasons that the ship can't ...
Russia Lambasted For Continued Occupation Of Georgian Provinces; Asian Nations Provide $40 Million Low-Interest Loan To Georgia But Some U.S. Lawmakers Still Are Cool To Providing Funds Required To Build Missile Shield In Poland, Czech Republic As Polish leaders bravely refused to back down from ...
New North Korean Missile Launching Facility Taking Shape North Korea, which with great fanfare demolished a portion of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, now is threatening to rebuild the facility, claiming that other nations aren't living up to agreements. ...
Progress Docking At Space Station Delayed As Hurricane Ike Closes Johnson Russia launched a Progress freighter spaceship as scheduled, but then found it couldn't dock the Progress with the International Space Station because Hurricane Ike forced NASA to close the Johnson Space Center and its ...
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate appears to have missed the majority leader's goal of passing the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill this week, with debate stalled yesterday after scant action Wednesday, when just a handful of amendments were considered. A successful amendment calls for ...
By Dave Ahearn Raytheon [RTN] has a proposal on the table with the Navy to make the emergent Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyers missile defense platforms, according to a company official. In an interview yesterday with sister publication Space and Missile Defense Report, Taylor Lawrence, president ...
In Talks With Navy, Raytheon Suggests Making New Zumwalt Destroyers Missile Defense Ships Raytheon Co. [RTN] is disappointed that lawmakers in Congress may cut funding needed to develop the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) because it is in development, since those cuts would delay the program just ...
Report Adds To Disputes Over Funding For Multiple Missile Defense Programs The Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) system was praised as a useful asset ready to take on missile threats from rogue nations, but the system needs to be upgraded with more speed and clout, according to a joint report ...
Space Shuttles Atlantis, Endeavour Will Launch Two Days Later On Weather Problems Atlantis To Lift Off At 12:33 A.M. Oct. 10; Endeavour To Fly At 8:43 P.M. ET Nov. 12 Weather problems prompted NASA to delay by two days each the scheduled launches of Space Shuttle Atlantis on a repair mission to the ...