Star Trek: D-A-C Now Available on PlayStation Network and Windows PC

Star Trek: D-A-C Now Available on PlayStation Network and Windows PC
"...The Missile Cruiser is a heavy artillery ship that features a longer range than any other ship in the game, but is vulnerable to close range attacks due to a low rate of fire and slower flight speed...."
Reference: ign.com

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Reference: federalemploymenttips.blogspot.com

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Kwajalein Marshall Islands, Land of Tomorrow

"...Kwajalein has become the splash-down and intercept launch site for the THAAD missile program, a current spin-off of Reagan-era Star Wars "Bright Pebbles" strategic planning. ..."
Reference: www.escapeartist.com

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Hawaii sought for more missile-defense work

Hawaii sought for more missile-defense work
"...Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, have asked Congress for $68.5 million to build an Aegis missile-defense test site at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the western shores of Kauai...."
Reference: www.honoluluadvertiser.com

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Boeing to lay off 69 local workers

Boeing to lay off 69 local workers
"...because of cuts to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program in the 2010 defense budget..."
Reference: www.al.com

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Raytheon lands $100M missile defense contract

Raytheon lands $100M missile defense contract
"...David’s Sling Weapon System, the joint program of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency..."
Reference: www.azbiz.com

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Drill to help US design missile shield

Drill to help US design missile shield
"...Results of the Juniper Cobra missile defense exercise staged by Israeli and American forces, which will come to an end this week, will be used by the US Defense Department to help formulate a new NATO missile shield..."
Reference: news.google.com

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Japanese destroyer intercepts test missile off Kauai

Japanese destroyer intercepts test missile off Kauai
"...BARKING SANDS, Kauai >> JS Myoko, Japan's third destroyer equipped with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, successfully intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile target above the atmosphere during a test today, Lockheed Martin..."
Reference: www.starbulletin.com

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Silos Get a Revamp at Fort Greely

Silos Get a Revamp at Fort Greely
"...The two senators offered different reactions to the plan, which they said calls for 14 completed silos in Missile Field 2.

Democratic Sen. Mark Begich said that number matches the original plans for Missile Field 2. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates earlier this year had announced plans to scale back the second field's expansion.

The new plan "is a welcome decision that will decrease the risk of the ever-evolving ballistic missile threats from rogue nations by increasing capacity required to defend the United States," Begich stated in a news release...."
Reference: begich.senate.gov

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Why Obama Is Wrong on Missile Defense

Why Obama Is Wrong on Missile Defense
"...President Obama’s recent decision to “overhaul” the Bush-era missile-defense shield for Europe was the most significant, but hardly the only, indication that the Obama national-security vision is skeptical of, and very likely actually hostile to, missile defense altogether. ..."
Reference: www.commentarymagazine.com

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Observatories gear up for Friday lunar crash

Observatories gear up for Friday lunar crash
"...the US Missile Defense Agency's Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite; nasa's Earth Observing-1 satellite;..."
Reference: www.msnbc.msn.com

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Missiles Help Launch Hispanic-Owned Company Above Economic Doldrums and into and SBA Award

Missiles Help Launch Hispanic-Owned Company Above Economic Doldrums and into and SBA Award
"...was a stellar year for the missile industry. Majority-owned by Puerto Rican-American Rey Almodovar, the Alabama-based defense contractor's revenue exploded in 2008, tripling to $43.4 million from $15.6 million in 2007. The 10-year-old company's good times continued this week,..."
Reference: www.hispanicbusiness.com
Ray Dunavant

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A Quote by Hillary Rodham Clinton

A Quote by Hillary Rodham Clinton
"The Iranians must "present convincing evidence as to the purpose of their nuclear program. We don't believe that they can present convincing evidence, that it's only for peaceful purposes, but we are going to put them to the test," Clinton told..."
Reference: The Associated Press from the article Iran test-fires short-range missiles

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Gates lashes out at critics of U.S. missile plan

Gates lashes out at critics of U.S. missile plan
"...Moscow had protested the Bush plan because it would be based in the Czech Republic and Poland. Leaders in the Czech Republic and Poland had found comfort in the Bush plan because they saw it as some protection against nearby Russia. ..."
Reference: www.washingtonpost.com

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Russia Scraps Missile Deployment after Obama Cancels Missile Shield

Russia Scraps Missile Deployment after Obama Cancels Missile Shield
"...Russia says it has scrapped plans to deploy missiles in a region near Poland after U.S. President Barack Obama canceled plans for a missile defense system in Central Europe...."

Reference: www.voanews.com

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Senate Panel Approves Missile Defense Agency Budget

Senate Panel Approves Missile Defense Agency Budget
"...The defense legislation provides $846 million for Ground-based Midcourse Defense, which could be used to destroy ballistic missiles in the middle range of flight, and $1.1 billion for the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense program..."
Reference: www.globalsecuritynewswire.org

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Missile Defense Agency OK'd for $7.7B in 2010

Missile Defense Agency OK'd for $7.7B in 2010
"...The Huntsville-based Missile Defense Agency has been approved to receive $7.7 billion in the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2010, following a unanimous vote..."
Reference: www.al.com

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Throwing missile defense under bus

Yet Another Foreign-Policy Fumble
"... True to form, the Obama-viks are bending over backward to please the Russkies in hopes they'll finally come around on helping curb Iran's runaway nuclear and missile programs. As a result, Team Obama will likely can the W-era missile-defense system ..."
Reference: www.nypost.com

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Holly to run Lockheed's missile unit

"...The new unit will support the Missile Defense Agency's Targets and Countermeasures Program, based at Redstone Arsenal; Lockheed's North Alabama Operations, which includes the Battle Management Technology Center and Courtland production facility; and several programs, including the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System and the Land Environment Air Picture Provision program...."
Reference: www.al.com

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Boeing Proposes Politics-Dodging Missile Defense System

Boeing Proposes Politics-Dodging Missile Defense System
"...Boeing, maker of the Ground-Based Interceptors (GBI) that are currently stationed in Alaska and California, has forwarded a more marketable version of the system..."
Reference: www.wired.com

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Missile-Defense Geeks Descend on Alabama

Missile-Defense Geeks Descend on Alabama
"...defense contractors, military officials and scientists descend on Huntsville for the Space & Missile Defense Conference and Exhibition, the annual confab for devotees of missile defense...."
Reference: www.wired.com

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President criticizes ‘Cold War' approach to defense

President criticizes ‘Cold War' approach to defense
"...doctrine and weapons better suited to fight the Soviets on the plains of Europe than insurgents in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan.”

“Twenty years after the Cold War ended,..."
Reference: www.chron.com

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UA-Huntsville awarded major contract for missile defense

UA-Huntsville awarded major contract for missile defense
"...$78 million contract to do work on Redstone Arsenal. Several students from schools across the region will make their way to the Rocket City..."
Reference: www.waff.com

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Space and Missile Defense Conference & Exhibition

August 17 - 20, 2009

Space and Missile Defense Conference and Exhibition
"...You are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual Space and Missile
Defense Conference and Exhibition that will take place at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, from 17 to 20 August 2009. The conference and exhibition is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association - Tennessee Valley Chapter , the Air Space and Missile Defense Association, and the Air Defense Artillery Association - Huntsville Chapter...."
Reference: Space and Missile Defense Conference and Exhibition

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Generals destroy tank with Javelin missiles at Redstone Arsenal

Generals destroy tank with Javelin missiles at Redstone Arsenal
"...shoulder-launched missile that is capable of defeating armored vehicles..."
Reference: www.waff.com

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