In India Mr Panetta promised access to America's best defence technology and called for deeper ties.
However, eventually it will become as public as any other defence technology.
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We now have to reassess our defence spending, which has been cut back too far: Still more significant has been the failure to grasp the vital importance of investment in the very latest defence technology.
The committee's report also recommended the MoD should spend more on defence science and technology, and research and development.
It is understood that Britain obtained samples from inside Syria that have been tested by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire.
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Northrop is moving away from military aircraft into defence-information technology.
There were inevitably comparisons with Activision's Call of Duty series, but Urban Warrior 5 was not a game, said Dr Nigel Paling, science advisor with the UK government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
So I had to undergo a very extensive training programme so I had awareness of those wider areas of defence science and technology so that I could identify issues, pass them back to the UK and get the right advice.
DARPA, the American Defence Department's technology agency, is also sponsoring research into power beaming.
It kept away from risky economic ministries, preferring safe portfolios like technology and defence.
We have made significant achievements in the last fifty years in food production, health sector, higher education, media and mass communication, industrial infrastructure, information technology, science and technology and defence.
By the end of the trial on May 28, 1998, even they agreed with the defence that there was no technology available at the time that would have enabled CompuServe to block internet content.
Russia suspects the operation was a cover to test anti-satellite technology under the US missile defence programme.
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The clear implication is that unless the Europeans grab this chance to close the transatlantic technology gap, they cannot have much serious interest in defence.
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Defence ties with America bring big benefits: intelligence is shared and Britain has preferential access to some American technology, not least the Trident missiles that help make Britain's nuclear deterrent cheaper than France's.
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