November 4, 2014

November 4, 2014

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SPACE

Antares Setback

By Frank Morring,Amy Svitak,Mark Carreau

SPACE

Roller Coaster

By Guy Norris

DEFENSE

Revolutionary Roadmap

By Bill Sweetman

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SPACE

Antares Setback

Launch failure strains NASA’s new ISS resupply approach—without breaking it

By Frank Morring,Amy Svitak,Mark Carreau

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SPACE

Roller Coaster

Boeing begins assembling first test CST-100 as SpaceX readies for key Dragon pad abort evaluation

By Guy Norris

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DEFENSE

Revolutionary Roadmap

The U.S.’s air-centered strategy has top-level backing

By Bill Sweetman

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DEFENSE

THIRD TIME AROUND

The proposed new Pentagon strategy is called Third Offset because it is considered as important as two previous strategic changes that took advantage of U.S. technological leadership to overcome operational challenges: President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “new look” in the 1950s, which relied on nuclear weapons to offset Soviet force numbers, and the “offset strategy” pursued by Defense Secretary Harold Brown in the late 1970s, which combined precision weapons with new reconnaissance systems to disrupt potential Warsaw Pact aggression in Europe.
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DEFENSE

‘Trust Me’

French lawmakers balk at defense ministry plan to shore up 2015 budget shortfall

By Amy Svitak

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DEFENSE

REAPER LOVE

Impressed with the performance of its first two U.S. MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial systems (UAS), France is looking forward to delivery of a third in early 2015. “We made the right choice, if you believe the users,” Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told French lawmakers last month, adding that the General Atomics-built Reaper has enabled “meaningful” engagements in support of the French-led Operation Barkhane in Mali, and that the U.S. technology is superior to that of France's four Harfangs built by Israei Aerospace Industries.
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DEFENSE

All Systems Go

Brazilian Gripen contract signed ahead of schedule

By Bill Sweetman

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DEFENSE

Old Missile, New Tricks

Raytheon is funding a seeker upgrade to the Tomahawk missile to extend its life into the 2030s

By Tony Osborne

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DEFENSE

Sensory Input

Airborne UAV infrared data are key in Aegis BMD test

By Amy Butler

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DEFENSE

Pressure Is On

Kendall is not ruling out more cost charges for Boeing in KC-46 work

By Amy Butler

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