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US May Send Drone Chopper to Help Japan With Crippled Nuke Plant

Cleanup work at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant presents a radiation risk to many workers, even helicopter pilots flying over the complex. One partial solution could be an unmanned aircraft capable of carrying 6,000 pounds of cargo -- in this case, water -- to help tame the crippled facility. "The U.S. Navy is...

US Imposes Sanctions on Libya; What It Means for Arms Sales

The White House today announced a series of sanctions against Libya in a move designed to step up pressure on the country's leader, Moammar Gadhafi. President Barack Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, announced the sanctions at a briefing this afternoon. He did not detail what they would include. But among other...

Stardust Melody: Spaceship Has Date With Comet on Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day late tonight, a stalwart spaceship will burn the dregs of its fuel to rendezvous with a beautiful comet -- the spaceship's final feat before it goes to sleep forever. Like all tales of chivalry, this one has an element of suspense. Scientists worry that by sheer bad luck, the NASA spaceship Stardust...

New Book: 'Military Industrial Complex' Is Bigger Than Ever

The nation's largest government contractor gobbles up some $260 from each and every taxpaying household, according to a new book that chronicles the history of Lockheed Martin. In "Prophets of War," longtime arms industry observer William D. Hartung calls this "the Lockheed Martin tax" -- a way of driving home just how...

The Pentagon's 5 Fantastic Flying Machines

(Oct. 1) -- So you think you can fly? The Pentagon's research and development arm announced this week that it had selected a company to design an airborne Humvee. AAI Corp., which has a concept for a combined gyrocoptor-jeep, is getting about $3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to work on this...

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Pentagon Spending and the War on Children

What would you rather see your tax dollars fund?

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The F-22: Final Delivery for a Flying Disaster

Wednesday Lockheed Martin delivered the last of 187 F-22 Raptor fighter jets to the U.S. Air Force at a ceremony at the company's plant in Marietta, Georgia.

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06/01/12 Raytheon, Lockheed lock horns for Space Fence contract Source: Web 2.0 Last month, the European Space Agency abruptly declared its Earth observation satellite, Envisat, dead.
05/10/12 Pentagon Spending and the War on Children Source: The Huffington Post What would you rather see your tax dollars fund?
05/03/12 The F-22: Final Delivery for a Flying Disaster Source: The Huffington Post Wednesday Lockheed Martin delivered the last of 187 F-22 Raptor fighter jets to the U.S. Air Force at a ceremony at the company's plant in Marietta, Georgia.