Defense & Aerospace

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National Defense April 2007 Breanne Wagner	Brown-Water Navy Begins Hunt for New Riverine Combat Craft Some time after 2010, the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command plans to buy a new small boat that will be tailored to specific Navy needs.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Defense, Law-Enforcement Agencies Seek Advanced Surveillance Tools Suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and the threats of chemical or biological weapons are creating increased demand for cutting edge technologies that can detect or survey potential hazards from stand-off distances.
National Defense April 2007 Robert H. Williams	Digital Info Device Wins Commercial Jet Application CMC Electronics' PilotView flight bag is being acquired by aerospace giant Embraer for use on its E-Jets family and Lineage 1000 aircraft.
National Defense April 2007 Robert H. Williams	Flash Fire Suits for Soldiers Perfected DuPont has adapted its Nomex Limitedwear protective clothing for the Defense Department. The garment is designed to protect soldiers from flash fires.
National Defense April 2007 Robert H. Williams	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Refueling Accomplished The Air Research Laboratory and Boeing's Phantom Works have demonstrated that unmanned aerial vehicles can be refueled in the air.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Foreign Software Not Inherently Evil Improving how software is made rather than where it is made is the key to better security... Army responds to tech-savvy enemies... New technology in place, but training falls short... National Laboratories out of the loop?...
Popular Mechanics April 2007	Next-Generation Small Arms: Followup In February 2006, we reported on the complex, decades-long campaign to find a new general-issue rifle to replace the aging M-16 and the two related weapon programs that showed promise. More than a year later, where are these guns?
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John McHale	EDS Forms Team for Air Force Space Command Communications Services EDS is teaming with AT&T and other IT providers in a bid for the Uniform Communications program, an eight-year communications services contract to provide one unified communications network serving 40,000 personnel of U.S. Air Force Space Command.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	DOD Electronics Spending to Drop Along with Overall Decline in Procurement Leaders of the DOD propose spending slightly more than $28.1 billion in fiscal year 2008 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies, which would represent a 4% decrease from current-year levels.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	Pentagon Budget Faces Tough Battle on Capitol Hill President George W. Bush for 2008 has submitted to Congress one of the largest-ever budget requests for the U.S. DOD, but the Pentagon's proposed budget faces perhaps its toughest battle in Congress in the last 15 years.
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