4A Games has quietly confirmed that a third title in the post-apocalyptic Metro franchise is creeping our way next year. The snowy, terrifying and beautifully atmospheric shooter series has already produced two memorable entries, and the ...
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China on Thursday donated mine clearance equipment to Cambodia and start-up funds to the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center. The 500,000-U.S. dollar donation included office equipment worth about 250,000 dollars to Cambodia, and start-up ...
Daylight Defense LLC has been selected by the US Army to develop next-generation high-power ultraviolet (UV) laser capability to support future defense applications. Daylight Defense is a a subsidiary of Daylight Solutions Inc of San ...
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Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), the only provider of fielded Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite terminals that protect the military's most sensitive information, was chosen by the U.S. Air Force under a $134,399,631 contract ...
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VectorNav Technologies is introducing an improved firmware version for its VN-200 GPS-Aided Inertial Navigation System (GPS/INS). Nominated for the Innovation Award at this year's Sensor Expo, VectorNav's VN-200 is the world's first ...
A GLOBAL rights group has launched a campaign to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said it ...
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The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command with U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command and Program Executive Office Aviation facilitated and delivered three Bell 407 Scout helicopters to Iraqi Army Aviation today. This marks the sixth ...
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Micromechanical chips that pump chemicals and living cells around them are already being used to amplify DNA strands and make health diagnoses. Now a new use for these miniature microchip marvels is being patented in the US: blowing things ...
In 1941, a Crown corporation created by federal legislation called Wartime Housing Ltd., which later became the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, constructed over 32,000 houses to provide what was originally planned as emergency ...
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Future warfare could be fought by soldiers using bullets and bombs as well as people hunched over laptops according to experts in cyber conflict. The analysis comes in response to a recent article, titled “U.S. Admits to Cyber ...
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U.S. Army research and development centers are collaborating to design new ammunition packaging that could yield significant cost savings and improve battlefield capability, officials say. Two organizations within the U.S. Army Research, ...
DoD contracts round-up:summer 2012 23 Aug 2012 Substantial backing for optical countermeasure and multispectral targeting systems,including a$463million agreement with Northrop Grumman. MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter The US Department of ...
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More than a hundred remote sensing satellites will be built over the next decade,at an estimated value of$17 billion. Satellite view The need for more and better imaging data will be the major driver behind a"healthy"market for ...
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BECHTELSVILLE - SciCast International recently won a $50 million military contract to engineer weaponry for U. S. Troops. For the next five years the 55-employee Berks County die-casting business will be competing for $50 million in ...
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