'Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.' —George Orwell
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Boeing to layoff 130 in Huntsville in response to planned cuts in missile defense program "...in a statement, the company said layoff notices will be issued to about 250 employees in the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program at various locations, including Alabama,..."
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The Missile Defense Agency has posted a Vacancy Announcement for a Supv Operations Research Analyst. The position is open to the public and is listed on USAJOBS under Vacancy Announcement Number MDA-09-EH-016. The position has a salary range from $78,359.00 to $133,985.00 USD per year. The vacancy closes 7/24/2009.
Reference: usajobs.gov .
Boeing to lay off 1,000 employees "...Jim Albaugh said the layoffs will affect workers at several IDS work sites, which are located in the Puget Sound region, Albuquerque, Anaheim, Houston, Huntington Beach, Huntsville, Long Beach, Mesa, the Potomac region and St. Louis...."
Reference: www.komonews.com .
Is Ares program dead? NASA told to explore new ways to reach the moon "...For more than a week now, engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., including some working on Ares I, have been pulled from their current duties to study creation of a smaller version of the Ares V that could carry both crew and heavy equipment...."
Reference: www.latimes.com .
Time for an All-Navy Missile Shield? "...Currently, the Missile Defense Agency maintains a diverse portfolio of missile killers targeting the three phases of a missile’s flight — launch, mid-course, and terminal. The Pentagon could potentially pare down its ballistic missile defense arsenal from the six different interceptors in service or development to just the Standard...."
Reference: www.wired.com .
National missile defense "...a generic term is a type of missile defense: a military strategy and associated systems to shield an entire country against incoming Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). The missiles could be intercepted by other missiles, or possibly by lasers. They could be intercepted near the launch point (boost phase), during flight through space (mid-course phase), or during atmospheric descent (terminal phase)...."
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Don't count on missile defense for Asia "...To allay these concerns, the U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) system is being touted by defense officials as sufficiently robust to protect U.S. territory from any missiles headed its way. ..."
Reference: www.examiner.com .
President Obama Retreats on Third-Site Missile Defenses "...Constitutionally mandated to ratify or reject treaties, the U.S. Senate should make clear to President Obama that it will not sacrifice missile defense in exchange for a new treaty with Russia reducing strategic nuclear weapons.[4]..."
Reference: www.heritage.org .
Japan Considering THAAD Missile Defense "...Japan is considering adding the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system as a third layer to its ballistic-missile defenses, according to an official leak evidently prompted by North Korea’s..."
Reference: www.aviationweek.com .
CQ Transcript: Palin’s Decision Debated on ‘Fox News Sunday’ "...Again, I think the long-term future with respect to missile defense will be determined in how we move forward with this review and the various pieces -- the Navy piece, the land-based piece, the air side of this -- that we put together in the long run. ..."
Reference: www.cqpolitics.com .
Pentagon optimistic on missile defense system "...Since the "Star Wars" plans of the Reagan administration, U.S. officials have spent more than $100 billion on missile defense weaponry and electronics. The Pentagon now maintains about two dozen interceptors in silos at Ft. Greely, Alaska, and at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California that are more advanced than earlier versions...."
Reference: www.latimes.com .
Will Obama trade missile defense curbs for Russian arms cuts? "...Missile defense is an issue that has split Washington and Moscow for decades. And it is likely to remain a point of contention when President Obama visits Russia next week – despite the fact that Mr. Obama is less enthusiastic than his predecessor about US plans to erect missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe...."
Reference: www.csmonitor.com .
Laser weapons are here! "...the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The laser was directed at a ground based target from an undisclosed distance and elevation. ..."
Reference: www.examiner.com .
By David J. Albritton, National Defense Magazine, NDIA, July 2009"...Defense communicators are expanding their reach beyond the industry, military, trade and business publications. There are various blogs that aggregate stories from other sources and originate their own. Easy access to defense-oriented blogs has created a growing international audience for military issues, with expert commentary from civilians and military personnel, alike. As their influence grows, social networks will become increasingly used by defense communicators. Indeed, an Israel Defense Force official recently..." 
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What Americans Need to Know About Missile Defense: We're Not There Yet "...If it carried and detonated a nuclear weapon high over the center of the country, the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) would literally fry the nation's electrical grid and all of the circuitry that powers our homes, businesses, hospitals, phones, cars, planes, traffic lights, ATMs, water supplies, and anything else not "hardened" against such attacks. The EMP Commission chairman has testified that, within just one year of such an attack, 70 percent to 90 percent of Americans would be dead from starvation and disease.
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Reference: www.heritage.org .
N. Korea slams Hawaii missile defense "...U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he ordered the deployment of a ground-based, mobile missile intercept system and radar system to Hawai'i amid concerns the North may fire a long-range missile toward the Islands..."
Reference: www.honoluluadvertiser.com .
Prototype Missile Defense Satellites Primed for Test Flight "...the STSS satellites will be launched in a stacked configuration aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. The MDA in May launched a classified STSS demonstration satellite that was also built by Northrop Grumman. The STSS satellites are designed to demonstrate the ability to track ballistic missiles in every stage of flight..."
Reference: www.space.com .
Brimming with Nuclear Bombast, North Korea Warns Foes "...“Our revolutionary armed forces will deal an annihilating blow that is unpredictable and unavoidable, to any ‘sanctions’ or provocations by the U.S.,” a speaker told the crowd, according to the Korean Central News Agency, the North’s state-run news service..."
Reference: www.nytimes.com .
Sessions says missile cuts 'unacceptable' "...takes about $1.2 billion from national missile defense, much of it from the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program led by Boeing in Huntsville. Sessions also pointed out that work has stopped on the Kinetic Energy Interceptor and Multiple Kill Vehicle follow-on programs, and that about $900 million will also be moved to theater missiles, "leaving us a real big hole and very damaging cuts in national missile defense." ..."
Reference: www.al.com .
Pyongyang vows to enlarge atomic arsenal, marks outbreak of Korean War
N. Korea warns of ‘fire shower of nuclear’ attack "...North Korea had warned previously it would fire a long-range missile as a response to U.N. Security Council condemnation of an April rocket launch seen as a cover for its ballistic missile technology...."
Reference: www.msnbc.msn.com .
US Ready for Any Threat from N. Korea "...the U.S. military are "fully prepared for any contingencies" involving North Korea -- including the possible launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii...."
Reference: www.voanews.com .
"...The Obama administration and its Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are significantly reducing America's missile defense programs at the very moment when the need for such systems is becoming ever more palpable...."
Reference: www.newsmax.com .
Missile budget cut still stands "...a reduction in the number of missiles deployed - plans called for as many as 44 total in Alaska and California - and less money for continued testing and future improvements of the system. There are currently 30 missiles deployed in Alaska and at Vandenberg..."
Reference: www.al.com .
U.S. may be within N. Korea missile range in 3 years, official warns "...Cartwright said he was "90%-plus" confident that the U.S. could shoot down a missile launched at the United States from North Korea. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has proposed trimming the overall U.S. missile defense budget, but has requested $900 million to maintain and improve interceptor missiles now based in California and Alaska...."
Reference: www.latimes.com .
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