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DAE interested in acquiring U.S. defence companies
DPW waded into a firestorm last year when it acquired management rights in major U.S. seaports; now DAE is risking a similar firestorm as it tries to buy into the U.S. aircraft maintenance and service sector
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Coast Guard cancels Northrop and Lockheed's Deepwater contract
Cost overruns and quality control cited as reasons to bring project in-house
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Lockheed stumbles out of the UAV gate
Polecat crashes in the Nevada desert, but at least the self-destruct mechanism works okay
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TSA strikes back at dope smuggling employees
Agency sends 160 officers to Florida after drug runners infiltrate Orlando airport
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L-3 travels south
Mexico moves to comply with ICAO’s baggage screening requirements
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UAVs to protect US airports
DHS chooses an unexpected technology for its counter-MANPAD effort; but is it safe?
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Rail safety in the news again
After Oneida accident, Schumer calls for a task force to investigate; angry senator reintroduces safety bill
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K-9's trained to detect pirated music
Motion Picture Association teams up with Malaysia to train the first pooches capable of identifying polycarbonate
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Boeing graduates first military ScanEagle
Seven Georgia airmen will be the first to operate the UAV without Boeing’s assistance
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Germans publish rogue wave atlas
Sensor-based instraments prove incapable of measuring these unpredictable forces; near-sinking of the Bremen may have spurred interest in SAR satelite approach; high risk zones identified
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Violence flares on the southern border
Border Patrol claims a threefold increase in attacks on agents; officers afraid of returning fire, despite use of Molotov cocktails and sniper attacks; helicopter brought down by rocks
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Australia announces new UAV competition
Queensland contest open to high school and university students; A$60,000 prize intended to raise awareness of this major local industry; “Smart State” is home to 30 percent of the country’s UAV production
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Developer of traffic safety technology raises $28 million
Maker of safety technology for vehicle fleets raises more money, bringing its total to date to $46 million, which it is going to use to expand operations abroad and delve more deeply into the consumer market
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Israel takes delivery of long haul Heron UAVs
Manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries, internationally popular model comes home and is renamed the Shoval; as craft can fly forty hours without refueling, move is certain to raise eyebrows in Tehran
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T-rays to help in airport screening
New laser design creates usable terahertz radiation — radiation which penetrates materials but does not harm human tissue
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