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Five Options for Replacing Stalled Virtual Border Fence

(Nov. 6) -- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has already frozen work on the controversial "virtual fence" that was supposed to secure roughly 1,900 miles along the United States' southwest border. Now, she's expected to announce its cancellation by mid-November. SBInet was supposed to integrate data from...

Army Gears Up to Outfit Soldiers in 'Iron Man' Suit

(Sept. 28) -- Defense companies are hoping someday to outfit soldiers with external skeletons that would bestow the wearer with superhuman capabilities. That day may still be years away, but Raytheon, one of the companies working on this technology for the Army, is riding the coattails of "Iron Man," which helped...

Plane Evacuates Sick American From Antarctica

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Sept. 14) -- A New Zealand air force plane made a rare wintertime landing on an ice runway in Antarctica on a mercy mission Tuesday to evacuate an American worker in serious medical condition, officials said. Blizzard conditions eased to allow the Orion aircraft with three medical staff aboard to...

'Pain Beam' to Be Installed in LA Jail

(Aug. 23) -- An invisible heat-beam weapon developed in secrecy by the military is set for use in a U.S. jail. Law enforcement officials recently revealed plans to use the nonlethal device at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Pitchess Detention Center, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. The weapon, which...

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06/02/12 Raytheon, Lockheed lock horns for Space Fence contract Source: New Zealand City Last month, the European Space Agency abruptly declared its Earth observation satellite, Envisat, dead.
06/01/12 U.S. Companies -- Not China -- Pose The Real... Source: AOL Defense The Senate Armed Services Committee turned its spotlight last November on the problem of sup-par and counterfeit Chinese-made parts used in U.S. weapons programs, including Boeing's new P-8A aircraft, the Marine Corps' V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, and the Navy's Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine.
06/01/12 UAV Crash in Korea Linked To GPS Jamming Source: AIN Online Jamming of GPS signals by North Korea may have contributed to the fatal crash of a Schiebel S-100 Camcopter UAV near Incheon, South Korea, on May 10.
06/01/12 Aircraft, Engines, Parts & Equipment Industry - A... Source: Electronics.ca Publications This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Aircraft, Engines, Parts And Equipment in US$ Million by the following Product Groups/ Segments: Commercial Aircraft (Wide Body Aircraft, & Narrow Body Aircraft), General Aviation (Single Engine Piston, Multi-Engine Piston, Turbofan/Turbojet, & Turboprop, Military Aircraft (including Helicopters), and Engines and Parts (Military, & Non-Military). The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2009 through 2017. Also, a six-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. The report profiles 224 companies including many key and niche players such as American Champion Aircraft Corporation, ATR, BAE Systems, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Bombardier Inc., CFM International, Inc., Cirrus Design Corporation, DAHER-SOCATA, Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc., Embraer S.A., European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., Airbus S.A.S., Eurocopter SA, GE Aviation, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, Ilyushin Aviation Complex JSC, International Aero Engines, IRKUT Corporation, Lancair International Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp., MD Helicopters Inc., NH Industries, Pilatus Aircraft Ltd., Piper Aircraft, Inc., Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Co., Rolls-Royce Group plc, RUAG AG, Snecma SA, Fokker Technologies Holding B.V., Fokker Aerostructures B.V., S.A.B.C.A., and The Boeing Company.
06/01/12 How To Play The Growth In Unmanned Aerial Vehicles... Source: Seeking Alpha Many defense industry stocks are out of favor, as investors worry that the winding down of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, combined with nearly $500 billion in U.S. military spending cuts over the next decade, will drastically curtail defense companies' earnings.

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Raytheon Company is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics.

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