President Bush is lifting sanctions on North Korea, even though he remains "deeply concerned" about the rogue nation as a bad actor. But some observers asked why a treacherous nation should be rewarded, and why the United States would trust the leaders in Pyongyang. North Korea fired a ...
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Lunar Craft Undergoes Checkout Prior To Mission A NASA spacecraft that will hit the moon has entered its final checkout phase, the space agency announced. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, will take a significant step forward in the search for water on the moon. ...
By Geoff Fein For the Navy to have a successful CG(X) program the service must be able to state the compelling operational need for the ship, leverage existing and mature new applied technologies, and have the support of the nation, according to a Lockheed Martin official. "The theme of this ...
Morphotek has received $1.7 million in funding approval from the Defense Department to further develop biologic-based monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapies targeting staphylococcal toxins as well as staph itself for the treatment of infectious diseases. Morphotek says it has developed multiple mAbs ...
Components of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) recently passed several tests, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said yesterday. That Integrated Ground Test (GTI)-03 checked hardware, software, and communication interfaces against simulated ballistic missile threats. This is the third ...
By Emelie Rutherford The dynamics of Congress' approach to missile defense has changed, with Democrats acting more accepting of national missile defense than in the past, yet also showing reticence toward longer-term options, a senior Senate Armed Services Committee staff member said. The ...
By Emelie Rutherford The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is looking for savings within its forthcoming longterm budget request so it can seek funds to double the number of Aegis Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors in the coming years, the agency's ...
Missile Defense Agency Tests A Plane-Based Missile Defense System Obering Seeks U.S.-European Missile Defense Test Area; U.S., NATO Radar Systems Swap Data; More Links Seen Shifting interceptors for a proposed European Missile Defense (EMD) system from Poland to Lithuania would leave them still ...
Interceptors in the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system can be deployed on time in 2013 if Congress provides sufficient funding, though any requirement that a test- article interceptor be launched first might slow progress in the program, Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering III, the ...
A clear trend is emerging that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea are in "a sprint, not a marathon," racing to develop ICBMs that could be tipped with nuclear weapons, a general said last week. Therefore, it is crucial to counter rising Iranian missile capabilities by installing a missile ...