It can prove very worthwhile for shareholders when a company manages to take a defense technology into the mainstream.
Last year, a self-driving car developed by China's National University of Defense Technology traveled 177 miles from Changsha to Wuhan.
Still more significant has been the failure to grasp the vital importance of investment in the very latest defense technology.
Such data will be screened and cleared for release to the Japanese by defense technology experts from the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense.
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In early October, Ambassador Alan Wendt of the State Department and the director of the Defense Technology Security Agency, William Rudman, made an important tour of European capitals.
Never mind that Mr. Clinton has up to this point not shown much interest in equipping the United States with missile defense technology, let alone making it available to others.
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 sale of the Mistrals is by far the most prominent example, but present-day Russia is far more open to foreign defense technology than was the Soviet Union which, as the articles state, had a standing policy of manufacturing all of its own weapons systems.
The area is home to giant defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman, both of which have a huge need for technology talent, and to large defense-oriented technology companies like AIC and CACI.
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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If some university applied for a grant to study a particular defense or technology the threat would have moved on before they were awarded the money they asked for.
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Sales of defense equipment and technology to allies, for example, are acknowledged as extraordinarily good policy.
Gertz quotes John Shaw, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Technology Security, who contends - based on information from two reliable European intelligence services - that Russian troops and Iraqi intelligence "almost certainly" removed the missing material from the facility.
In an Acquisition Decision Memorandum, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics E.
Frank Kendall III, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, vice Ashton B.
And its National Missile Defense (NMD) program plays an important role as a technology feeder for other missile defense programs.
It opted instead to use Aegis technology for a defense of European and other regional allies against the ballistic missiles Iran is fielding.
Now an information technology manager at defense contractor Raytheon, Manuel nonetheless still craves the credential he was too busy to pick up along the way.
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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While the Army has managed with somewhat better results terminal and point defense programs like Safeguard and Patriot, the technology and missions of today's larger, vastly more sophisticated missile defense systems (such as ERINT, Brilliant Eyes and Brilliant Pebbles) go well beyond what the Army traditionally has had expertise in.
The Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, the agency that sanctions commercial technology for Pentagon use, is set to rule in the next two weeks that Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones, preloaded with Samsung's Knox security software, conforms with the Pentagon's so-called Security Technology Implementation Guide, according to a Defense Department spokesman.
Look at Garmin, which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.
Look at Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ), which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.
Like President Bush, he embraced the high-technology approach of laser defense.
Cutting edge businesses that I have visited in the financial and technology sectors and the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) have developed their own methodologies that turn traditional IT risk management frameworks on their head.
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Nanosolar recently completed a 1-megawatt installation in California that was part of a technology testing program at the defense department.
The Israeli company, which developed technology to find downed Israeli Defense Force pilots, specializes in services to track goods and recover stolen vehicles.
Money would be used to fortify border fences, boost patrols, and acquire surveillance technology from the Department of Defense -- including drones and drone pilots.
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Commission for Science Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND).
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The funding is coming from Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy ( ARPA-E), which the energy department launched in 2009 and modeled after a Department of Defense program that supports early-stage technology research.
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