August 18, 2003

August 18, 2003

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Trouble At NRO

By ROBERT WALL,CRAIG COVAULT8 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Coffee Beans Ripe?

By MICHAEL MECHAM5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Spaceshipone Solos

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Trouble At NRO

Facing criticism and an intelligence collection gap, NRO hopes the upcoming launch will pull it out of a five-year rut

By ROBERT WALL,CRAIG COVAULT8 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Coffee Beans Ripe?

NASA Ames UAV Center focuses on technology for civilian applications

By MICHAEL MECHAM5 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Spaceshipone Solos

Rocket ship was lifted to 47,000 ft., then glided back to desert runway while performing maneuvers to test stick forces

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

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Spending to Save

Near-term V-22 production curtailed, but five-year plan boosted

By ROBERT WALL4 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Watchful Eye

Canada expects to deploy UAVs with forces slated for Afghanistan

By ROBERT WALL4 min

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Mini-Cruise Missile

Boeing is working on a small long-range weapon that ferrets out mobile targets

By DAVID A. FULGHUM3 min

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Revisiting the Threat

Japanese defense spending faces shakeup as government cites terrorism, missile buildup

By EIICHIRO SEKIGAWA3 min

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Life-Cycle Software

Linking software to support a product’s lifetime won’t be easy, but the effort is starting

By DAVID HUGHES8 min

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CONTRAILS

"For Those Who Fly.... Or Long To."

Contrails is an Aviation Week & Space Technology initiative to capture the untold stories that collectively make up the rich lore of aviation and space.

By CAPT. WILLIAM R. TYMCZYSZYN7 min

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

JSF Combat Software

The aircraft’s system architecture will allow the latest processors to be inserted without having to rewrite all the computer code

By DAVID HUGHES7 min

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