Posts Tagged military

28
Dec

ManTech Names Robert P. Frisbie as Senior Vice President in Its Mission, Cyber and Technology Solutions Group

FAIRFAX, Va. –
ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq: MANT) has named
Robert P. Frisbie as Senior Vice President in its Mission, Cyber and
Technology Solutions group. Mr. Frisbie will be responsible for the
security support and [...]


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18
Dec

$1.2 Million in Additional Funding Secured to Continue Development of Dual-Mode Micro-Seeker Technology for Near-Term Use in Defensive Military Applications Such as Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar Systems

MONROVIA, CA — 12/18/09 —
Dr. John Tanner, President and founder of
Tanner Research, Inc. announced today that the Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) awarded a contract for $1.2
million in additional funding to con..


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24
May

BBC plans to send poet to Afghanistan

Honouring the works of Owen and Sassoon, the BBC will send Simon Armitage, who was tipped for the poet laureate\’s job, to Helmand province to capture the lives of British troops in conflict
When Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon told of life in first world war trenches, technology did not allow soldiers to kill at long [...]


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20
May

Progress is doomed if Obama is merely a cleverer version of Bush | Jonathan Freedland

At next week\’s US-Israel summit, a change in mood music will not be enough. A radical shift in strategy is needed
Binyamin Netanyahu can comfort himself with one thought as he heads to Washington next week. At least when he stands alongside a popular US president who radically disagrees with him on the future of [...]


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20
May

These men would’ve stopped Darwin | George Monbiot

Science research in Britain is now all about turning knowledge into business, rather than the beauty of exploration
Why is the Medical Research Council run by an arms manufacturer? Why is the Natural Environment Research Council run by the head of a construction company? Why is the chairman of a real estate firm in charge of [...]


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20
May

Hope for Burma, even in disaster | Bo Hla Tint

Paradoxically, Aung San Suu Kyi\’s arrest is a sign that international calls for her release are working
In Burma, things just go from bad to worse. Last week, the country\’s revered democracy leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was taken ill. Her doctor reported she was short of breath, had low blood [...]


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02
Jan

Israel may target Hamas leaders in Gaza – military – Reuters

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Israel may target Hamas leaders in Gaza – militaryReuters - Dec 27, 2008… the spokeswoman, Major Avital Leibovitch, told reporters: "Anything belonging to Hamas could be a target. You can interpret that as you like."Video: First foreigners evacuated from Gaza RussiaTodayPardon Our Dust: Israel's PR Campaign for Gaza Palestine ChronicleHamas hoping for a ground [...]


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26
Nov

Gary Younge: Americans have never felt so excited, and yet so depressed

One night, in a bar in Zanzibar, I saw two sex workers chatting up a couple of Germans. The men were in their 50s, paunchy and balding – the women were young and pretty. It was a painful sight, the Germans plying the women with drinks and single entendre; the women laughing as though their [...]


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08
Nov

Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second Probe – ABC News

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Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second ProbeABC News - Oct 13, 2008The allegations came from two former military intelligence intercept operators and translators, Adrienne Kinne, an Arab linguist for the US Army, …Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA's Wiretapping of Americans … Wired NewsReport: US spied on Americans' intimate conversations abroad CNNClaim: Military abused wiretaps [...]


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08
Nov

Testimony lost in translation – Toronto Star

Testimony lost in translationToronto Star,  Canada - Oct 15, 2008Ralph Kohlmann, a military judge at Guantanamo Bay, was listening to a simultaneous interpretation in English. At a recent pretrial hearing, al-Hawsawi, …


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08
Nov

Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second Probe – ABC News

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Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second ProbeABC News - Oct 13, 2008The allegations came from two former military intelligence intercept operators and translators, Adrienne Kinne, an Arab linguist for the US Army, …Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA's Wiretapping of Americans … Wired NewsReport: US spied on Americans' intimate conversations abroad CNNClaim: Military abused wiretaps [...]


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07
Nov

Testimony lost in translation – Toronto Star

Testimony lost in translationToronto Star,  Canada - Oct 15, 2008Ralph Kohlmann, a military judge at Guantanamo Bay, was listening to a simultaneous interpretation in English. At a recent pretrial hearing, al-Hawsawi, …


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07
Nov

Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second Probe – ABC News

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Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second ProbeABC News - Oct 13, 2008The allegations came from two former military intelligence intercept operators and translators, Adrienne Kinne, an Arab linguist for the US Army, …Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA's Wiretapping of Americans … Wired NewsReport: US spied on Americans' intimate conversations abroad CNNClaim: Military abused wiretaps [...]


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07
Nov

Testimony lost in translation – Toronto Star

Testimony lost in translationToronto Star,  Canada - Oct 15, 2008Ralph Kohlmann, a military judge at Guantanamo Bay, was listening to a simultaneous interpretation in English. At a recent pretrial hearing, al-Hawsawi, …


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07
Nov

Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second Probe – ABC News

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Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second ProbeABC News - Oct 13, 2008The allegations came from two former military intelligence intercept operators and translators, Adrienne Kinne, an Arab linguist for the US Army, …Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA's Wiretapping of Americans … Wired NewsReport: US spied on Americans' intimate conversations abroad CNNClaim: Military abused wiretaps [...]


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07
Nov

Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second Probe – ABC News

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Did NSA Lie, Cover-Up? Senators Open Second ProbeABC News - Oct 13, 2008The allegations came from two former military intelligence intercept operators and translators, Adrienne Kinne, an Arab linguist for the US Army, …Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA's Wiretapping of Americans … Wired NewsReport: US spied on Americans' intimate conversations abroad CNNClaim: Military abused wiretaps [...]


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