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			<title>ULS Wins $398M Contract for Satellite Launches</title>
			<description><![CDATA[United Launch Services, L.L.C., Littleton, Colo., is being awarded a $398,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for Atlas V EELV launch service in support of a Mobile User Objective System-4 mission and Delta IV EELV launch service in support of a Global Positioning System mission.  

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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:24:56 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Balanced UK MoD Budget Guarantees Future Defense Projects</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The MOD's budget deficit has been wiped out for the first time in a generation, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced today.

Through a series of tough but necessary decisions, combined with radical reforms of the MOD's financial processes, the £38bn black hole in the Defence Budget that ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:24:24 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Indian Defense Offsets Pass $4 Billion Mark</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<b>Defence Procurement Policy </b>

The Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) is refined and updated periodically. DPP was last reviewed in 2010 on the basis of experience gained during its implementation and feedback received from various stakeholders including Armed forces, Indian defence industry...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:23:20 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>US Army Pushing Laser-Based Defenses</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Will the U.S. Army soon start blasting incoming rockets and mortars with laser beams to protect its forward operating bases? Not quite, but according to people involved in industry and the Army, that day might not be that far off/…/

One successful program has been the Counter-Rocket and Mortar (C...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:19:29 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Northrop Wins $103M for Litening Targeting Pods</title>
			<description><![CDATA[ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a delivery order by the Naval Air Systems Command totaling $103 million to deliver LITENING G4 targeting systems.

Under the terms of the award, Northrop Grumman will supply the U.S. Marine Corps with LITENING G4 pods. The com...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:18:56 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Open Letter Blasts UK MoD Choices, Competence</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr Hammond,

You may remember that when you were writing essays at school you were often given a quotation to inspire you, and I have chosen one today to guide my thoughts and perhaps to give you cause to ponder:

“You can either pull under the bedcovers and pretend these problems don’t exi...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Airbus Criticizes Australia’s C-27J Selection</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Defence Minister Stephen Smith yesterday announced that the C-27J from Alenia will be Australia's new Battlefield Airlifter via a $1.4 billion AUD sole source acquisition of 10 aircraft through a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process.

In a press conference immediately following the announcement, t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:07:48 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>New IR Missile Warning SystemInFull Rate Production</title>
			<description><![CDATA[ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. --- The U.S. Air Force has authorized full rate production of the NexGen Infrared missile warning system (MWS), a Northrop Grumman Corporation designed, built and tested protection system for C-17, EC-130J, HC/MC-130J and other Air Force platforms.

"The full rate production ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:07:10 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>GD Delivers Tactical Network, Radios for US Army Exercise</title>
			<description><![CDATA[WHITE SANDS, N.M. --- In the largest deployment yet of the General Dynamics-developed JTRS HMS Manpack and Rifleman Radios and the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) network, the U.S. Army is now conducting realistic operational evaluations of the next generation of high-speed communica...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:06:25 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Second-Gen Aegis BMD Intercepts Missile</title>
			<description><![CDATA[KAUAI, Hawaii --- The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target for the first time, using the second generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, known as Aegis BMD 4.0.1.

This second-generat...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:05:57 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>US Army’s Top Acquisition Official Visits Network Evaluation</title>
			<description><![CDATA[WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. -- Army Acquisition Executive Heidi Shyu praised the ongoing Network Integration Evaluation, known as the NIE, and stressed the importance of blending science and technology, or S&T, into the modernization strategy while meeting with program managers, Soldiers and ser...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:05:23 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Lockheed to Produce Harvest Hawk Weapon Kits</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, Ga., is being awarded an $18,433,384 firm-fixed-price contract for the manufacture and testing of three Harvest Hercules Airborne Weapons Kits (HAWK) for installation onboard Marine Corps KC-130J aircraft.  

In addition, this contract provides for the modification...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:43 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>US Air Force Announces Criteria for Basing KC-46A</title>
			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON --- After extensive internal review, the Air Force released today its basing criteria that will be used to select candidate bases for the KC-46A formal training unit and first two main operating bases. 

The formal training unit (FTU) and first main operating base (MOB 1) will be led by...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:14 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>US Navy to Set UpCoastal Riverine Force</title>
			<description><![CDATA[VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. --- Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) is establishing a new command, the Coastal Riverine Force (CORIVFOR), a merger of Riverine Group 1 and the Maritime Expeditionary Security Force (MESF), June 1. 

CORIVFOR will perform core maritime expeditionary security missions in...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:03:31 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>US Air Force Marks 20 Years of Constant Combat Ops</title>
			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON --- Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Phil Breedlove and his counterparts from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps testified May 10 before members of the Senate Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support about U.S. military readiness in light of recent budget cuts.

In his opening st...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:02:54 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Germany Opens Test Area for Robots</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A test arena for the standardized examination of mobile robots was opened on 3 April 2012 at the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Engineer and General Field Equipment (WTD 51) in Koblenz.

The standardized test elements allow the individual properties of the mobile systems to be recorded in a repro...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:02:15 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Private Navy Planned to Counter Pirates</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A private navy costing US$70 million (Dh257m) is being set up to escort merchant ships through the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden.

It will comprise a fleet of 18 ships, based in Djibouti, and will offer to convoy merchant vessels along the Internationally Recognised Transit Corridor (IRTC).

This...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:01:31 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Three Signs of Progress on Missile Defense</title>
			<description><![CDATA[2012 has already demonstrated signs that it will be a year of significant progress in the development and deployment of missile defenses. Just last week, the Missile Defense Agency conducted a successful test of its next in a series of improved ballistic missile interceptors, the Standard Missile-3 ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>YahsatY1B Satellite Deployedin Orbit, Begins Ops</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Astrium, Europe’s leading space company, has successfully completed the Launch and Early Orbit Phase operations of the Y1B satellite, conducted from its spacecraft control centre in Toulouse (France), and passed control over to the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat). 

Astrium and Th...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:21 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>F-35 STOVL Aircraft Makes 200th Flight</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PATUXENT RIVER, Md. --– U.S. Marine Corps test pilot Lt. Col. Matthew Kelly flies F-35B test aircraft BF-3 in an Atlantic test range May 3. The 200th test flight for BF-3 measured stresses on the aircraft during supersonic maneuvers. 

The F-35B is the variant of the Joint Strike Fighter for the U...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:59:46 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>BAE Strengthens Industrial Participation In East Malaysia</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Having already established Kuala Lumpur as its Southeast Asian hub, BAE Systems is now looking beyond peninsula Malaysia to strengthen its presence in East Malaysia, with a visit by senior company representatives

The focus of this trade mission will be state government, regional development agenc...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:59:18 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>AM General to Unveil JLTV Candidate Vehicle</title>
			<description><![CDATA[LIVONIA, Mich. --- AM General LLC will exhibit its Blast-Resistant Vehicle – Off Road (BRV-O) for the first time at the Defense Industrial Base Expo of the National Defense Industrial Association in Warren on May 15-16. 

AM General, whose Engineering and Product Development Center is based in Liv...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:58:37 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Northrop to Explore Outsourcing Opportunities in Brazil</title>
			<description><![CDATA[ITAJUBÁ, Brazil --- Boeing Super Hornet industry partner Northrop Grumman has signed Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) with two Itajubá-based companies that could expand their precision-machining opportunities in the global aerospace and defense industries. The MOAs with GNS Industry and Trade and RCS...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:58:08 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Beechcraft T-6C Military Trainer Completes World Demo Tour</title>
			<description><![CDATA[GENEVA, Switzerland --- Hawker Beechcraft Defense Company (HBDC) today announced it has completed a two-month, around-the-world demonstration tour of the T-6C Texan II military trainer, showcasing the world’s most versatile and capable integrated pilot training system to a broad range of interested ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:57:38 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Iveco’sLMV Vehicles Parade on Red Square</title>
			<description><![CDATA[BOLZANO, Italy --- Iveco’s Light Multirole Vehicles took part in the massive military parade throughRed Square in Moscow celebrating the 67th anniversary of Russia’s victory in theSecond World War. 

This year’s parade was a historical event, since it was the firsttime ever that foreign-made armou...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:54 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>AgustaWestland’s New AW169 Helicopter Makes Maiden Flight</title>
			<description><![CDATA[AgustaWestlandis pleased to announce that the first prototype of the AW169, a new generation 4.5 ton light intermediate helicopter, successfully completed its maiden flight yesterday. The AW169 programme is on schedule to achieve basic civil certification in 2014. 

The AW169 was flown by AgustaWe...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:51:19 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Controversy Flares in Australia on C-27J Selection</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Australia’s selection of the C-27J medium transport aircraft, at a cost of $1.4 billion for 10 aircraft, has attracted substantial criticism because of its cost and the way the acquisition was decided. Airbus the losing competitor, has issued a statement saying it could have supplied the aircraft ea...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:50:39 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Russia Testing Italian CentauroWheeled Tank</title>
			<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW --- Russia is testing Italy's Centauro wheeled tank and considering building it under license, a representative of the Oto-Melara company which makes the tank said on Saturday.

"The first two machines with 105-mm and 125-mm guns are on trial at a Moscow Region proving ground," he said.

...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:49:49 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>L-3 Says Ten C-27Js to Cost $300M, Plus $300M Support</title>
			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK --- L-3 Communications announced today that it has been selected by the Commonwealth of Australia to provide the C-27J Spartan for the country’s Battlefield Airlifter program. The U.S. Foreign Military Sales program has an approximate contract value of $600 million and includes the supply o...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:49:20 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>UK MoD Explains U-turn OnF-35 Variant</title>
			<description><![CDATA[There has been widespread media coverage of yesterday's announcement by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond that the MOD will deliver Carrier Strike capability with the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, instead of the Carrier Variant.

Mr Hammon...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:48:38 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Keep the F-16 Radar Upgrade Light, Fast</title>
			<description><![CDATA[As a result of repeated restructurings, the F-35 fighter program is now expected to deliver only about a quarter of the production aircraft originally planned by 2017 -- roughly 400 planes rather than 1,600. This presents a problem for the U.S. Air Force, which is destined to receive most of the dom...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:47:51 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Why Moscow Says 'Nyet' to NATO Missile Defense</title>
			<description><![CDATA[NATO member states want an anti-missile defense system in case of attack from Iran or North Korea - but Russia feels threatened and has warned it will retaliate to protect itself. 

"The system is not a threat to Russia. It also doesn't change the strategic power balance." That message has been re...]]></description>
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			<title>DOD Expands Contractor Cyber-threat Protection Program</title>
			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON --- The Defense Department is expanding one pilot program and enhancing another, both of which involve sharing cyber-threat data with cleared defense contractors who work with DOD intellectual property, senior defense officials said yesterday.

Richard A. Hale, deputy chief information ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:46:16 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Canadian Forces, Navy Adopt New Structures</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, the Government has made a strategic investment in the Canadian Forces (CF) through balanced investments across the four defence pillars upon which CF capabilities are built – readiness, personnel, equipment and infrastructure. It has helped to develop a flexible, agile and resi...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:45:47 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Global Strike Command Chief Previews B-52 Upgrades</title>
			<description><![CDATA[BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. --- During a recent visit to Edwards AFB, Calif., the commander of Air Force Global Strike Command spent time with B-52 Combined Test Force officials to preview the combat capability enhancements made to the B-52H Stratofortress.

Modernizing and sustaining the nation...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:44:49 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Magellan Wins Boeing Aerostructures Contract</title>
			<description><![CDATA[MISSISSAUGA, ON --- Magellan Aerospace Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a contract with The Boeing Company for the continuation of the production of complex, hard metal structural assemblies for the Next-Generation 737, 747-8, 767, 777, and the production of such assemblies for t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:44:19 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Canada’s Final CC-130J Transport Delivered Ahead of Schedule</title>
			<description><![CDATA[TRENTON, ONT. --- The Honourable Julian Fantino, Associate Minister of National Defence, joined by Lieutenant-General André Deschamps, Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), and members of 8 Wing Trenton, today welcomed the ahead-of-schedule arrival of Canada’s 17th and final new CC-130J ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:43:12 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Still Hope for Improving Accountability in Defense Contracting</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Each year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)--the massive defense spending bill--becomes an omnibus contracting bill of sorts. Generally, stand-alone contracting bills aren’t sexy enough for hearings or committee passage, so many of those bills are reintroduced as amendments to the NDAA....]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:42:08 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Thales Sells Civil Simulation Business to L-3</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Thales today announces that it has reached an agreement on the sale of its fixed-wing civil simulation and aircrew training activities to L-3 Communications. The transaction would include Thales’s civil fixed-wing simulation activities in Crawley, UK, and its flight simulation training centre locate...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:41:41 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Indian Cabinet Approves $700M Purchase of Pilatus PC-7 Trainers</title>
			<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI --- The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Thursday cleared the purchase of 75 basic trainer aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The IAF has been suffering from a crippling shortage of trainers since 2009, when its old basic trainer was grounded after a series of accidents that cl...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:11:30 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>RAF Paying Far Too Much for New Tankers: BBC</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The RAF may be paying billions of pounds too much for its new, air-to-air refuelling Voyager aircraft, the BBC has discovered. Contracts seen by Newsnight suggest the 14 planes could be purchased for £50m each instead of the £150m each paid as part of a £10bn leasing agreement.

Defence Secretary ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:10:26 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Kazakhstan Buys 20 Eurocopter EC725s for Local Assembly</title>
			<description><![CDATA[ASTANA, Kazakhstan --- Kazakhstan has signed a letter of intent to acquire 20 Eurocopter EC725 helicopters, marking a major new commitment for this medium-lift rotorcraft. These aircraft, which will be assembled in Kazakhstan, will be used by the country’s Ministry of Defense in a full range of miss...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:08:58 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>UK U-turn on F-35 Version to Cost £100M</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced that plans to deliver Carrier Strike capability will now be executed using a different type of Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jet than was planned.

The MOD will move away from the Carrier Variant (CV) JSF and our Armed Forces will instead operate the sho...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:57:33 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>SuperJet Accident Is Serious Blow to Russian Aviation</title>
			<description><![CDATA[It may take experts up to 15 months to investigate the crash of a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft in Indonesia, a representative of the Indonesian transport security committee said on Friday.

The probe is unlikely to be completed promptly because of “complex conditions” in the area wher...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:54:09 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>GAO to Investigate LCS As More Problems Come to Light</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Navy's close-to-shore combat ship just hit some rougher seas.

An amendment requiring the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a review of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program passed during the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) markup of the National Defense Authorization Ac...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:52:36 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Pentagon Tightens Rules Against Leaks, Espionage</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Department of Defense has issued a new Instruction defining its response to the “insider threat” from Department personnel who engage in unauthorized disclosures of information or other activities deemed harmful to national security.

The new Instruction assigns responsibilities and authoritie...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:48:39 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Raytheon Wins $314M for SM-6 Block I Missiles</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $313,843,757 combination fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price letter contract for low-rate initial production of fiscal 2012 Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) Block I all-up rounds, special tooling and test equipment, spares...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:44:55 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Alenia Values RAAF Order for C-27J at Over €800M</title>
			<description><![CDATA[ROME --- Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, welcomes the decision taken by the Australian Minister for Defence and Minister for Defence Materiel to purchase 10 new built Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan Battlefield Airlift aircraft at a cost of around 800 million Euro (AUSD 1.4 billion).

The...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:44:14 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>More on Latest SM-3 Missile Defense Test</title>
			<description><![CDATA[FORT BELVOIR, Va. --- The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy Sailors aboard USS Lake Erie (CG 70) successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system May 9.

This test resulted in the first intercept of a short-range ballistic missile target over the Pa...]]></description>
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			<title>Brazilian Motor Powers Latest Exocet Variant</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian Navy has successfully carried out a firing trial of an Exocet MM40 missile, equipped with a motor developed, produced and certified by Avibras in partnership with MBDA. This is the first time that the Brazilian Navy has carried out such a test which represents the country’s autonomy in...]]></description>
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