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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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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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IndigoVision cameras to protect new Canada light rail system
$2 billion effort to protect Vancouver’s Canada Line will deploy 400 analog cameras; signals will be converted into MPEG-4 format for transmission to an eighty screen command center
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The long view
Calls Grow for U.S. to Counter Chinese Control, Influence in Western Ports
Experts say Washington should consider buying back some ports, offer incentives to allies to decouple from China.