Boeing Receives First Multi-year Contract for Rescue Radio Logistics Support

Boeing Receives First Multi-year Contract for Rescue Radio Logistics Support
Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - Under a new four-year contract from the U.S. Air Force, Boeing will provide maintenance, engineering, training and support for the system that enables the rescue of downed pilots and other warfighters in danger. The Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) program's first multi-year logistics contract is valued at $32.5 million in total. A global emergency call system used by the Air Force, A ... more

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Chip-Sized Digital Optical Synthesizer to Aim for Routine Terabit-per-second Communications

Chip-Sized Digital Optical Synthesizer to Aim for Routine Terabit-per-second Communications
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - In the 1940s, researchers learned how to precisely control the frequency of microwaves, which enabled radio transmission to transition from relatively low-fidelity amplitude modulation (AM) to high-fidelity frequency modulation (FM). This accomplishment, called microwave frequency synthesis, brought about many advanced technologies now critical to the military, such as wireless communications, r ... more

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Northrop Grumman Awarded US Navy Contract for Next-Gen Mission Computer

Northrop Grumman Awarded US Navy Contract for Next-Gen Mission Computer
Woodland Hills, CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - Northrop Grumman has been awarded a low-rate initial production contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver FlightPro Gen III mission computers in support of AH-1Z and UH-1Y Marine Corps helicopters. Under the $10.6 million contract, Northrop Grumman will provide mission computers for H-1 helicopter flight tests, system integration laboratories and training. The lightweight FlightPro miss ... more

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Raytheon enhances malicious insider threat and privileged user abuse detection with new SureView release

Raytheon enhances malicious insider threat and privileged user abuse detection with new SureView release
Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - Raytheon has made improvements to its SureView suite, which include new policy support features that enhance product capability for continuous monitoring and network auditing against insider threat and privileged user abuse. With this release, commercial and federal organizations now have access to a Privileged User Monitoring and Auditing (PUMA) Policy Pack specifically designed to enable ... more

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Claims 100 stray dogs buried alive in China probed

Claims 100 stray dogs buried alive in China probed
Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2014 - Claims that about 100 stray dogs were buried alive in northern China are being investigated, an official said Sunday, the latest apparent case of animal cruelty to shock the nation. Allegations that a pit pictured online Wednesday containing scores of stray dogs had been filled in by local government officials were made by a charity based in Inner Mongolia. The Yinchuan Dawn Pets Home gr ... more

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Concordia calling

Concordia calling
South Pole (ESA) Apr 28, 2014 - Are you a team player who is unafraid of long isolation? Do you have a medical degree and a healthy love of extremes? ESA is offering the chance of a lifetime to run space experiments in one of the world's most isolated places: Concordia research station in Antarctica. Lying 1600 km from the South Pole in the Antarctic desert, Concordia was built on a plateau 3200 m up. Its location means ... more

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Top 12 ways the world can eliminate agriculture's climate footprint

Top 12 ways the world can eliminate agriculture's climate footprint
San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2014 - Annual carbon emissions from global agriculture can be reduced by as much as 50 to 90 percent by 2030-the equivalent of removing all the cars in the world-according to a comprehensive new report released by Climate Focus and California Environmental Associates. The study highlights twelve key strategies-led by reduced global beef consumption, reduced food waste and better farm nutrient managemen ... more

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