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<title>Satellite Today :: Military :: DoD</title>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com</link>
<description>Satellite Today</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>2009</copyright>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:01:56 EST</pubDate>

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<title>NLOS System Precision Attack Missile Completes Third Test</title>
<description>A Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System's Precision Attack Missile completed the third guided test flight for the weapon class. NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Co. [RTN] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unit Missiles and Fire Control, completed the third guided test flight. &amp;quot;The PAM missile...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29508.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 5 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Raytheon Gains Up To $3.3 Billion Patriot Order For UAE</title>
<description>The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order for advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Raytheon and teammate Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] worked with the U.S. and UAE...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29510.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 5 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lockheed Gains $371.6 Million Contract For GMLRS Program</title>
<description>The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $371.6 million firm fixed price contract for further work in the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29512.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 5 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>NPOESS System Completes Review For Preparatory Project</title>
<description>The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project completed a mission operations readiness (MOR) review, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The largest review of the overall NPOESS configuration to date, the MOR focused specifically on NPP's operational...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29438.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Raytheon Gains Up To $3.3 Billion Patriot Order For UAE</title>
<description>The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order for advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Raytheon and teammate Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] worked with the U.S. and UAE...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29447.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Standard Missile-2s Launched In Ship Trials</title>
<description>The Navy fired seven Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA anti-air warfare missiles as part of ongoing U.S. Navy shipbuilder trials and operational tests, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Four of the intercepts were conducted by the guided missile...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29368.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Paveway 4 Enters Service On U.K. Harriers</title>
<description>The Paveway 4 weapon system completed all evaluation activities, clearing it to enter service with the U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Harrier GR9 aircraft, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. Following demonstration of capability trials at the U.S. Navy Air Warfare Center at China...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29373.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Missile Defense Systems Assailed In Think Tank Report</title>
<description>Report: Kill European Missile Defense And Airborne Laser; Halt Procurement, Deployment Of Aegis, GMD, THAAD, Patriot; And End Streamlined Missile Defense Budget System The multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) program has come under attack in a report from a think tank, just as Congress is...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29295.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 8 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Missile Defense System Scores Major Success</title>
<description>The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system successfully killed a target missile in a realistic test using multiple radars, showing that the Missile Defense Agency and its contractors have developed a system that can defeat incoming long-range enemy missiles threatening the United States. A glitch did...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29296.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 8 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Bolton: U.S. Has Lost Attempt To Block Iran From Developing Nuclear Weapons</title>
<description>Only Possibility Of Blocking Iranian Nukes Is That Israel Might Launch Military Strike European Missile Defense System Would Become Final Bulwark Against Nuclear Iran The United States has failed to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons, and the consequences of that failure will be ugly, according to...</description>
<link>http://www.viasatellite.com/military/dod/29297.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 8 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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