President Obama also mothballed or killed several other missile defense development programs.
During its tenure, the group has helped mediate conflicts between member countries, aided in disaster response, and fostered collaboration on collective defense and development projects.
With the widely perceived abeyance of the Soviet threat, nearly every Western democracy has chosen to slacken the pace with which it pursues defense research and development.
In a report published by The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Rubin, who has been awarded the Israel Defense Prize and oversaw the development of Israel's Arrow missile defense system, concludes that Iran today has the capacity to develop solid-fuel-based intermediate ballistic missiles with a range of 3, 600 kilometers.
They will consider expanding cooperative efforts in theater missile defense technology and exercises, study ways of sharing data obtained through early warning systems, discuss theater missile defense architecture concepts, and seek opportunities for joint research and development in theater missile defense.
The crucial importance of keeping up research and development in defense is the great lesson of SDI.
Amoretta Hoeber, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development.
Trend Micro has been relatively quiet about the development of their Custom Defense product line.
These defenses include the development of a missile defense system.
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.
Ironically, the more draconian the U.S. defense cuts, the more important it is that we maintain vigorous research and development programs and avoid critical shortfalls and bottlenecks in defense production capacity that constitute vital hedges against future security threats.
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The more draconian the U.S. defense cuts, the more important it will be to maintain vigorous research and development programs and to avoid critical shortfalls and bottlenecks in defense production capacity as vital hedges against future security threats.
Mr. GEOFFREY YORK (Reporter, Globe and Mail): When you look at the strategy that they're supposed to follow, I mean, they're supposed to be doing the so-called three Ds: development, diplomacy, and defense.
Such a development enormously complicates the task of the defense.
On another front, in an extraordinary development military prosecutors at one point joined defense lawyers in objecting to the colonel appointed as the presiding judge, because they said he was too subject to influence by the chain of command.
In Moscow, a top defense official in Moscow took a dim view of the development.
So it is no surprise that most of its future investment will be in commercial-transport development, and that a string of top defense executives have been shifted to the commercial side of the house.
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Aided by a 13-center research consortium group funded by the Defense Department and the Prostate Cancer Foundation and intended to speed development of medicines for the disease, researchers ultimately and rapidly enrolled 140 patients, with promising results.
Tim Heinemann is a retired Special Forces officer and a mobile training team leader for counter-terrorism professional development of American allies around the world for US Department of Defense.
We need sustained technology development, and we need the best and brightest working on our defense programs.
Past cuts in the defense budget and those now being anticipated are dampening investment in associated research and development and industrial capacity.
Meanwhile, in another development, a lawyer said he might call Hillary Clinton as a defense witness in the second Whitewater trial underway in Little Rock.
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First, U.S. investment in its own research and development technology base is likely to be significantly reduced as a result of defense budget cuts.
The newly announced, radical reform of the FBI is a welcome and long overdue development that places the Bureau on the front lines of homeland security and defense.
The TRW system in whose development Dr. Schwartz participated is not being utilized in the current National Missile Defense program.
It was that development that sent her back to Florida, to become director of air-defense production operations at Martin Marietta in Orlando.
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The ominous development can, however, provide a silver lining to U.S. defense contractors that may be see a fall in domestic and European demand in the wake of large spending cuts and austerity measures.
Even respected environmental groups like the Environmental Defense Fund have affirmed that state regulatory agencies are well-equipped to manage natural gas development (although the Park Foundation has funded groups who tried to suggest otherwise).
At the very least, we should resolve to apply any resources freed up by ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse in the Defense Department, to addressing yawning shortfalls in the military's modernization, research and development and operations and maintenance funding.
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Republicans have, unfortunately, made clear that they would rather see cuts in defense that could harm our national security, cuts in education and innovation, research and development, in border security, cuts in vital programs and investments that we make as a nation, rather than ask millionaires and billionaires to pay a single dollar more in taxes.
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