Defense & Aerospace

Magazine articles on the defense and aerospace industries.

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National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Enjoy Your Money While You Can ... More than any other service, the Army has relied on Iraq-war funding to refurbish vehicles and acquire new hardware. However, if history is any guide, money only lasts as long as there are troops under fire.
National Defense March 2007 Ebner & Menker	Message to Industry: `Do the Right Thing' Recent headlines have raised concerns about how federal procurements were handled on a variety of levels. Introduced last fall, a bill entitled the Clean Contracting Act may pass in the 110th Congress. These proposed changes are a harbinger of things that may come.
The Motley Fool February 13, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Fall of the iRobot The consumer and tactical robotics specialist loses the quarterly battle. Military robots are neat lifesavers, but that's rarely enough to propel a stock higher.
BusinessWeek February 19, 2007 Stanley Holmes	Soaring Where Boeing Struggled How spin-off Spirit AeroSystems built a new model for worker-management cooperation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John Keller	DARPA eyes sniper scope that compensates for crosswinds The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is asking the electro-optics industry to design a sniper rifle targeting scope that helps compensate for crosswinds and enables the sniper to hit the target with his first shot.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John McHale	Thermal-management challenges highlight Military Technologies Conference 2007 U.S. Department of Defense and industry experts to discuss thermal and power management at the Military Technologies Conference (March 27 and 28, 2007) in Boston.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John McHale	New communications for Navy ships based on software-defined radio Software-defined-radio technology is being used on various U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines, as well as fixed land sites, to replace several legacy radios with one system.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John Keller	DARPA program to develop computer system to forecast wars and other political instability The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks industry's ideas on developing an advanced computer system (called the Integrated Crisis Early Warning System, or ICEWS) that is able to predict global wars and other political instability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007	In Brief Boeing to begin second phase of enhanced Polar System Payload study... Lockheed Martin completes successful tracking with open architecture, solid-state radar antenna... General Dynamics to produce tactical satellite communications terminals...
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John McHale	No time to waste Countering improvised explosive devices is not a 5- or 10-year program but something the military needs right now, as these nasty mines continue to take the lives of American fighting forces.
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