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ST Engineering today announced that its electronics arm, ST Electronics, has been awarded a contract to provide the Advanced Combat Man System (ACMS) to the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). The project which is worth over S$100m will commence immediately and is expected to be completed by 2012.
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Wednesday 10 June, 2009 05:16 PM |
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China is now spending upwards of $ 60 billion a year to modernise its military, with the eventual aim of giving it power-projection capability far beyond its borders. In typical fashion, however, Beijing is not rushing pell mell into this endeavour, but is proceeding with due deliberation one step at a time, so as not to alarm its neighbours.
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Monday 8 June, 2009 03:10 PM |
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n a bid to lure graduate engineers for a bright career in aerospace technologies, the state-run remier Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has selected 10 college teams from across the country to demonstrate low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) they have designed and developed for reconnaissance.
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Sunday 7 June, 2009 07:18 AM |
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Miscellaneous contracts
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Friday 5 June, 2009 12:52 PM |
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The U.S. Army signed off on an unusual procurement contract in December 2007: A $322-million order for 22 Russian helicopters bought through a U.S. defense company for Iraq. The contract was a rush order, designed to deliver Mi-17 helicopters in a bid to quickly reequip the Iraqi air force and allow it to perform counterinsurgency operations. But 18 months after signing, not a single helicopter has been delivered, despite full payment. The Army now concedes the contract is over budget and nearly a year behind schedule.
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Tuesday 2 June, 2009 02:12 PM |
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At a time when many companies are downsizing, NAVSEA continues to need midcareer employees—particularly engineers, scientists and skilled tradesmen. Positions are open at NAVSEA’s headquarters and affiliated program executive offices in Washington, DC, as well as naval warfare centers, shipyards and Navy-sponsored University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) across the country.
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Thursday 21 May, 2009 08:39 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from years of covering the Pentagon acquisition game, it’s this: Nothing ever really dies.
Take the Air Force’s next-generation bomber. As part of a scrub-down of the defense budget, Gates effectively canceled a new stealth bomber that was originally scheduled to enter service in 2018. “The program that was on the books is terminated,” Gates told senators last week, although he allowed that “the idea of a next-generation bomber, as far as I’m concerned, is a very open question.”
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Tuesday 19 May, 2009 02:05 PM |
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Buildings, roads and water are resources used by military personnel every day, but the tools and labor involved to create and maintain those resources are not as obvious. Airmen with Facility Engineer Team 14, 732nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron, currently serving aboard Al Asad Air Base, however, work behind-the-scenes to ensure service members can freely access those resources.
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Monday 18 May, 2009 12:36 PM |
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The role of modeling and simulation in tomorrow's defense engineering industry was a focal point for some of the top experts in military and software engineering at the Advanced Innovative Methods for Improved Reliability & Efficiency (AIM FIRE) Military Day, a program co-hosted by leading global technology provider Altair Engineering, Inc. (www.altair.com) and the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC).
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Saturday 16 May, 2009 12:05 PM |
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France and Germany are close to taking a political decision to procure a heavy rotorcraft capable of lifting up to 13t of equipment and supplies or 70 troops over a range of 1,000km (540nm), says the European Defence Agency (EDA).
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Wednesday 13 May, 2009 03:09 PM |
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It's easy today to take the Hubble Space Telescope and its glorious views of galaxies and colorful nebulae for granted after 15 years of amazing astronomy and countless cosmic photographs.
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Tuesday 12 May, 2009 12:52 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
NASA is running out of nuclear fuel needed for its deep space exploration.
The end of the Cold War's nuclear weapons buildup means that the US space agency does not have enough plutonium for future faraway space probes - except for a few missions already scheduled - according to a new study released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Monday 11 May, 2009 04:35 PM |
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AgustaWestland's next-generation Future Lynx helicopter has been renamed as the AW159 to bring it into line with other products in the company's line of commercial and military rotorcraft.
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Thursday 30 April, 2009 03:49 PM |
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The US Navy’s newest light cruiser and aircraft carrier designs offer a wide array of new technologies. One is the Dual-Band Radar (DBR) system, which can be scaled up or down for installation in the new DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class “destroyers”, and the CVN-21 Gerald R. Ford Class aircraft carriers.
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Monday 27 April, 2009 12:29 PM |
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It has the ability to reach speeds of 102mph, race around a 38 mile mountainous course and is powered by batteries which can be charged from a standard household socket. It’s Kingston University’s new, green motorbike. Designed by six final-year engineering students, the bike is set to make history by competing in the world’s first zero-emissions Grand Prix this summer. The Kingston team will join 24 eco-bikes from America, India, Italy, Germany and Austria on the start line at the 2009 Isle of Man TTXGP.
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Monday 27 April, 2009 09:27 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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A Second World War fighter plane that was left to rot in a South African scrapyard for 25 years fetched a record price of £1,580,000 at an auction yesterday. Its new owner is a Stephen Brooks, a London property dealer with a taste for adventure.
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Tuesday 21 April, 2009 02:39 PM |
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Raytheon Co . announced Monday it has received a $27 million contract for engineering services for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System.
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Tuesday 21 April, 2009 09:31 AM |
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Monday proposed some of the toughest spending cuts on weapons systems since the aftermath of the Cold War nearly two decades ago, asking Congress to phase out the Air Force’s F-22 fighter, limit the scope of the nation’s missile-defense system and restructure the Army’s high-priority network of sophisticated new combat vehicles.
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Tuesday 7 April, 2009 12:19 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Shortly after graduating from college , Walton McCarthy went to a party where he overheard a disturbing conversation between a child and her mother.
"The little girl said, "Mommy, if I grow up, can I be an architect and design things?" McCarthy recalled.
McCarthy wondered why the child had said if she grows up and assumed she was terminally ill. The mother later told him that they had a "euthanasia plan."
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Sunday 5 April, 2009 07:39 AM |
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Development of the Russian SOSNA-R laser-guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) system is nearing completion, according to Russia's Nudelman Precision Engineering Design Bureau.
The system consists of an upgraded MT-LB multi-purpose tracked armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) chassis fitted with a turret supporting a total of 12 SOSNA-R (9M337) laser guided SAMs in the ready-to-launch position.
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Saturday 4 April, 2009 03:25 AM |
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