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To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) aug. 11-14 — Tennessee Valley Chapter 17th Annual Space & Missile Defense Symposium, Von Braun Center-Convention Center, Huntsville, Alabama. For more information go to www.ndia.org/meetings/C063/Pages/default.aspx

LOGAN, Utah — Researchers hope to use a cubesat to fly the first biological experiment beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) in four decades, a miniaturized

NEW DELHI — India and the U.S. are working towards finalizing defense deals worth $2.5 billion as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visits the

BUDGET PRESSURE: Budget reductions over the last three years are hurting the U.S. military’s ability to respond to the nation’s security strategy

The U.S. Navy has forward-deployed the Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) to the 5th Fleet area of responsibility, which includes the

U.S. Navy sailors demonstrated the Electronic Warfare Battle Management (EWBM) for surface defense system during the recent Rim of Pacific (Rimpac)

ABOARD THE CNS HAIKOU/ABOARD THE USS RONALD REAGAN — President Ronald Reagan’s famous catchphrase, “Peace through strength,” features predominantly

The U.S. needs to consider changing its combatant command structure to mirror changes throughout the world, according to a recent report by the

U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (Navfac) Hawaii Utilities Maintenance Division personnel took their new hybrid bucket truck into the field

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The U.S. Army’s aviation restructuring initiative, which would make the UH-72 Lakota helicopter its future training aircraft, is beginning to face

SAN DIEGO — Sierra Nevada Space Systems is readying the refurbished engineering test article (ETA) version of its Dream Chaser lifting body vehicle

MAKING BACN: Northrop Grumman will continue supporting the U.S. Air Force’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) comms gateway on the

After 10 years spent traveling more than 6 billion km through space, Europe’s Rosetta mission has arrived at its destination — 67P/Churyumov

LOGAN, Utah — Growing demand to launch cubesats and other small spacecraft is driving development of a wide range of concepts that build on the

Amphibious transport dock LPD 23 USS Anchorage completed its second Underway Recovery Test (URT-2) this week for NASA’s Orion Program. Initial trials

HOUSTON—Each state that competed for a favorable outcome in SpaceX’s launch-site decision has in some way advanced its ability to foster new business

LONDON — The fuselage for the first Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) destined for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) operations has

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Engineers are making progress in their efforts to unravel the late June parachute failure that marred an otherwise successful test of potential

LOGAN, Utah— Steve Jurvetson, one of the most successful venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road – the Wall Street of Silicon Valley – says he spent 10

ASIASAT 8: SpaceX marked its fourth launch so far this year with the successful early morning orbiting of the AsiaSat 8 communications satellite on

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was never detected on Indonesian radar because the aircraft never flew over Indonesian air space

SAN DIEGO—After months of rumors, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has confirmed it will develop a commercial launch site at Boca Chica Beach