Marine Corps taps Cubic Applications for training support services
San Diego (UPI) Oct 30, 2014 -
Support services for functional and technical training are to be provided to the U.S. Marine Corps by Cubic Applications Inc. under a $46.5 million contract.
The award was issued by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command in support the USMC Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Systems Support effort.
The Marine Training System Support program provides the training necessary for U ...
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CPI Aero wins multi-year award for outer wing panel kits
Edgewood, N.Y. (UPI) Nov 4, 2014 -
Outer wing panel kits for use on U.S. Navy aircraft are being produced by CPI Aerostructures through a multi-year contract from Northrop Grumman.
The award by Northrop Grumman is worth about $86.1 million. The amount includes about $63.6 million in new funded backlog and about $22.5 million in requirements that were released to CPI Aero in 2013.
The kits are for use in the manufa ...
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4 Tunisian soldiers killed in bus shooting
Tunis (AFP) Nov 05, 2014 -
Four Tunisian soldiers were killed on Wednesday when suspected militants opened fire on a minibus carrying troops, the defence ministry said.
Describing the attack in northwestern Tunisia as a "terrorist operation," ministry spokesman Belhassen Oueslati said the suspects had escaped but were being hunted down.
"Two armed men approached the bus that was carrying soldiers and opened fire," ...
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Indian navy worker killed in ship accident: reports
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 06, 2014 -
A naval ship sank Thursday off the southeastern coast of India leaving one worker dead and four others missing, reports said, in the latest of a string of deadly mishaps to hit the navy.
Rescue operations were underway after the vessel flooded during a naval exercise late Thursday off the southeast coastal city of Visakhapatnam.
"The vessel was on a routine mission to recover torpedoes f ...
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US-led Syria strikes hit Qaeda, Islamist rebels
Beirut (AFP) Nov 06, 2014 -
US-led air strikes in Syria hit Al-Qaeda-linked militants and an Islamist rebel brigade in a rare expansion of weeks-long raids targeting the Islamic State group, a monitor said Thursday.
American media reported that 24-year-old French bomb-maker David Drugeon, a Muslim convert who joined an Al-Qaeda offshoot, the Khorasan group, was killed in the overnight strikes.
"We think we got him, ...
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Anger in Hong Kong as protesters compared to slaves
Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 01, 2014 -
A prominent businesswoman has sparked outrage in Hong Kong by comparing the city's pro-democracy protesters to African-American slaves, suggesting they might need to "wait for a while" to win the freedoms they are seeking.
"American slaves were liberated in 1861 but did not get voting rights until 107 years later, so why can't Hong Kong wait for a while?" Laura Cha, an HSBC board member, was ...
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Indonesian Navy to receive Airbus helicopters
Jakarta (UPI) Nov 6, 2014 -
The Indonesian Navy has ordered nearly a dozen Airbus AS565 MBe Panther helicopters in an anti-submarine warfare configuration.
The 11 Panthers, which are the naval variant of the Dauphin twin-engine multi-role aircraft, will be delivered within the next three years to PT Dirgantara Indonesia, an Airbus Helicopters' partner who will be outfitting the aircraft in-country with mission equ ...
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