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General Tactical Vehicles (GTV), a joint venture between AM General, LLC, and General Dynamics
Land Systems, formed to compete to develop and produce the U.S. Army and U.S.
Marine Corps' Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), successfully completed the
Critical Design Review (CDR) this week.
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Thursday 5 November, 2009 09:21 AM |
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The Navy’s top admiral told a think-tank audience yesterday he wants more unmanned aircraft in the sea service, and he wants ‘em in a hurry. In particular, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead said he’d like a robotic attack aircraft that can land and take off from a carrier. As it happens, I saw a full-scale mock-up of just such a plane a few weeks ago.
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Wednesday 4 November, 2009 11:15 AM |
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Northrop Grumman
Corporation's milli-Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope (mHRG)-based
precision pointing concept has been selected by the U.S. Army Night Vision and
Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) for exploration under the Far Target
Location Improvement Program Broad Agency Announcement.
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 05:16 PM |
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Far from being rich , he does not own yachts or airplanes. He belongs to the generation that appreciates the value of human recognition. “Are there many famous designers who have a monument built in their honour while they are still around? Or a museum? Do many have presidents of their countries coming to wish them happy birthday? I do!” says Kalashnikov. “I have no celebrity attitude. I am the same man I have always been. I just keep working.”
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Thursday 29 October, 2009 09:30 AM |
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Technology , a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a
$110.3 million contract to modernize classroom training technology by the U.S.
Army Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). This is a one-year
task order awarded under the Information Technology Enterprise Technology
Solutions -2 Services (ITES-2S) contract.
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Wednesday 28 October, 2009 10:22 PM |
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A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test-flight, despite questions over the future of the programme.
The 100m-long Ares I-X has a four-hour launch window for blast-off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center.
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Tuesday 27 October, 2009 02:26 PM |
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A new Pentagon study has affirmed previous findings that Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, the costliest U.S. arms purchase program, will require billions of dollars more than planned, and more time, an online news service said
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Monday 26 October, 2009 03:04 PM |
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Wrightstyle, based in the UK, supplies its specialist glass and glazing systems worldwide. Denis Wright is the company’s managing director, and here explains how modern steel glazing systems have come of age in today’s uncertain world.
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Wednesday 21 October, 2009 08:20 PM |
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Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and White Sands Test Facility teamed up with Dallas-based Armadillo Aerospace through an Innovative Partnership Program agreement to design and test a rocket engine that runs on liquid oxygen and liquid methane, for use on the moon or other extraterrestrial surfaces. Armadillo developed the engine, JSC designed and fabricated the nozzle and provided oversight on the project, and White Sands contributed the testing facilities. The project was jointly funded through the NASA Innovative Partnership Program office, the Propulsion and Cryogenic Advanced Development project, and Armadillo Aerospace.
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Wednesday 21 October, 2009 02:16 PM |
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Even as the aerospace and defense industries forecast additional corporate downsizings and a net reduction in hiring in 2010, companies are recruiting engineers to work in specialized areas such as computer hardware, materials, and mechanical and electrical design.
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Wednesday 21 October, 2009 01:31 PM |
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The US space agency, Nasa , is rolling out its Ares 1-X test rocket.
The super-slim, 100m-tall launcher is a demonstrator for the vehicle Nasa plans to use in the next decade to take its new astronaut crewship into orbit.
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Tuesday 20 October, 2009 11:16 AM |
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Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have
delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace
engineering graduate students at the University of Maryland's Clark School of
Engineering have learned how to apply the seeds' unique design to devices that
can hover and perform surveillance in defense and emergency situations.
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Tuesday 20 October, 2009 09:15 AM |
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The U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) has awarded a $25.9 million contract to G&B Solutions Inc. to provide efficiency training and other resources, G&B's parent VSE Corp. said Wednesday.
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Thursday 8 October, 2009 08:55 AM |
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General Dynamics Corp . reported a $360 million modification to a Navy submarine contract, and a $140 million contract for information technology services from the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Wednesday 7 October, 2009 03:25 PM |
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General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a $7 million contract to continue to design the new Saudi M1A2 (M1A2S) Abrams tank for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract for design logistics was awarded by the U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command for the Royal Saudi Land Forces. General Dynamics Land Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics
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Tuesday 6 October, 2009 10:37 AM |
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He was known for his mottos : "Build a little, test a little, learn a lot."
He used to say that "engineering is 'plod, plod, plod' " and that "we ain't done yet."
Navy Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer, regarded as the father of the Aegis missile-defense system, drove testing of the technology at the former RCA facility in Moorestown and changed the face of naval warfare.
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Monday 5 October, 2009 06:00 PM |
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A fractionated satellite concept that replaces large satellites with clusters of wirelessly-linked modular spacecraft flying in loose formation has the potential to drive cultural change and reinvigorate a “mature” U.S. space industry, proponents say.
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Thursday 1 October, 2009 09:02 PM |
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As the U.S. Air Force continues to support the responsible draw down of forces in the country of Iraq it is also working to prepare the Iraqi air force to support and maintain its own flying operations on airfields across Iraq.
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Sunday 27 September, 2009 12:08 PM |
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European aviation company Airbus has, on Tuesday, been able to announce some good news regarding its troubled A400M military transport aircraft programme.
The head of the A400M programme, and Airbus Military senior vice-president, Rafael Tentor, has told journalists in Getafe (near Madrid), Spain, that he is confident that the company will very soon be able to accept flightworthy software for the full authority digital engine control (Fadec) system for the A400M’s engines, reports UK journal Flight International.
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Thursday 24 September, 2009 02:11 AM |
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China's manned space program is at present in the first phase of the second step of the "three-step"strategic plan, said Wang Yongzhi, academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and chief designer of China's manned space program, on September 21.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 05:58 PM |
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