Millennium Summit, Putin said the time had come for the world to halt discussion of space-based defense systems.
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Zable has been the CEO of Cubic, a San Diego-based defense and technology company, since he founded it in 1951.
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That means the Virginia-based defense and civil contractor employs the greatest number of former military service members in skilled labor positions.
For that reason, among others, Alaska's Fort Greely was selected as the site for the principal U.S. ground-based defense against such missiles.
Mahmood Shah, a Peshawar-based defense analyst who spent years working for military intelligence in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions that skirt the Afghanistan border.
That's an argument in favor of developing space-based defense systems.
It's fully equipped with sea-based missile defense systems, has long been the Navy's primary ship for the sea-based missile defense program and has the technology needed for the operation, officials said.
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Interestingly, the disparity in favor of a space-based defense could be even more dramatic but for cost-growth associated with schedule delays -- delays driven by congressionally imposed budget cuts intended to hamstring the Brilliant Pebbles development program.
Responses flooded in from commentators, including companies like DaimlerChrysler, consumer groups like the London-based Consumers in Europe Group, and lawyers'trade organizations such as the Chicago-based Defense Research Institute and the Nottingham, England-based Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers.
Interestingly, Mr. Davis has cited the importance of layered or "tiered" defense among his rationales for restarting the canceled E2I secondary interceptor for the single ground-based defense site he advocates -- despite the fact that the E2I system does not represent an independent layer.
Aegis began as a sea-based defense against hostile aircraft, but over three decades has evolved to become the most versatile missile-defense system in the world, due in no small part to the fact that destroyers and cruisers hosting the system can get wherever they need to be quickly.
Sea-based missile defense is vital to our overall ability to defend ourselves, but it is not a substitute for the land-based system which is designed to provide defense against longer range ballistic missiles.
Kadish declared that such a layered system, comprised over time of a range of systems to address an evolving threat, would likely utilize sea- and space-based missile defense "layers" to complement and add robustness to the ground-based capability he is preparing for deployment in Alaska.
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Such systems include all phases of the Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defenses in Europe, the modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, and the continued development of the two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor as a technological and strategic hedge.
Ground-based missile defense is especially costly and not nearly as effective as sea- and space-based systems would be.
The operation validates the Center's longstanding support for and confidence in sea-based missile defense and its evolving capability to protect the American people.
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This possible accomplice was never found or identified, although McVeigh's trial attorneys based his defense on the possibility of a broader conspiracy behind the bombing.
Harvey Silverglate is a Cambridge-based criminal defense and civil liberties litigator.
Whether that remains the case will depend on how much funding is provided to continue producing and improving systems like Aegis and the Ground-based Midcourse Defense.
The San Francisco-based criminal defense attorney has been quietly making a name for herself as the one hackers turn to when they find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
The San Diego-based criminal defense attorney and former federal public defender has worked with legal teams representing "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski, Atlanta bomber Eric Rudolph, and most recently, Tucson mass shooter Jared Loughner.
For example, members of NATO, along with Russia, are worried about suggestions that Bush might pull U.S. peacekeeping troops out of the Balkans, and try to implement a space-based missile defense system.
Second, all of the scientists and engineers who worked on the European land-based missile defense project will now scatter to the winds, some taking early retirement, some getting assigned to other projects and others perhaps going into different industries altogether.
Biden -- and for that matter Secretary Perry -- may be saying that they would support the deployment of a sea-based missile defense off the coast of North Korea provided the system so deployed was compliant with the ABM Treaty.
Sadly, the broad-based missile-defense-shield cause is not helped by the Pentagon's bureaucracy, either.
Putin's remarks in no way alluded to these uses of satellites in space but appeared targeted specifically at moves in the U.S. to deploy a space-based missile-defense system.
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In light of the toughening regulatory framework for product safety (pro-consumer changes to the general product safety laws are further along), they have asked the commission to add a defense based on regulatory compliance.
The defense based its case largely on an alibi for Skakel, who claimed to be across town at his cousin's house during the time a medical examiner hired by police estimated Martha was killed.
However, there is still margin to do more, and that is why the common interest in strengthening dialogue and cooperation have been highlighted, of course, based on the defense and cooperation agreement signed in 1995 and which represents the institutional framework of our relationship.
Though the company's defense was based on protecting trade secrets, not user privacy, it nonetheless avoided revealing user data.
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