An early indication of who might be ahead came earlier this year when BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman won in a five-way competition to supply the military services with infrared countermeasures for their rotorcraft.
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Friday is the last day they can submit proposals to the U.S. Army for the Common Infrared Countermeasures program, a system that may one day equip thousands of military helicopters with lasers that can jam the guidance of hostile heat-seeking missiles.
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For example, they are equipped with defensive countermeasures against surface to air missiles which makes them suitable for operations in areas where conventional business jets might fear to fly.
The Defense Science Board criticized the agency for focusing too much on defensive countermeasures "to which the enemy quickly adapts, making these efforts less effective, " in an April 2006 report.
The other players lack the mass or the synergy to compete across a broad swath of the marketplace, so even if they manage to show up for competitions like the Common Infrared Countermeasures program, they are out of their depth.
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For national security reasons we haven't given out details of any of our medical countermeasures, and that's the same for many other countries.
Sceptics might suggest that these last-minute countermeasures call into doubt the reason for a radio-chip device in the first place.
What those countermeasures should be is a topic for another day.
The move was perfectly legal, says Rodrigo Sales, Auctionwatch's CEO--and it's also legal for him to find a way around such blunt electronic countermeasures.
The move was perfectly legal, says Auctionwatch Chief Executive Rodrigo Sales--and it's also legal for him to find a way around such blunt electronic countermeasures.
So the Army has been seeking better airborne protection equipment for some time, and the five teams chasing the countermeasures program are ready to supply it.
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Like sailors on a destroyer, Stephanopoulos and his crew have drilled and plotted and practiced for attack so that when Dole launches a torpedo, their countermeasures are ready to go in an instant.
Mulally traveled Wednesday to Washington, where he pressed U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and the Obama administration to make sure that a provision to eliminate U.S. tariffs on imported Korean cars was accompanied by countermeasures that would increase access to the Korean auto market for American companies.
Corporate crime remains rampant and a costly problem for businesses worldwide, despite heavy spending, tough new laws and technological countermeasures aimed at stamping it out, according to a survey being released this morning by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The reports of whether Apple had integrated a Trusted Computing countermeasures into their Intel dev kit boxes (and OS X for x86, as well) have been firing back and forth we heard last week from Open for Business that someone on the developer end firmly denied Apple's DRM implementation, while another Apple Developer Connection member confirmed its existence to Cnet.
Finally, we document the set of countermeasures being employed now by surviving merchants and discuss the resulting operational requirements for using payment intervention as an effective tool.
Well, that's the choice of the Americans, but this Government and many other governments have decided that for national security reasons they don't want to disclose the level of medical countermeasures.
If the critics are right -- a significant "if" -- about the imminence of effective countermeasures falling into the hands of potential adversaries, the argument is only reinforced for pursuing multiple means of acquiring layered missile defenses at the earliest possible time .
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But those same subtleties and nuances often elude federal policymakers and contracting officers, so it is quite possible for arrivistes to kluge together off-the-shelf technologies and barge in on competitions like the Army countermeasures program sounding like they are on the cutting edge of military technology.
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We will also, among other things, sell electronic countermeasures pods, supply parts to permit a marginal improvement of the engines, and offer a replacement for aging Sidewinder missiles.
Combined with its inherent "Stealthy" characteristics, these countermeasures have permitted the SR-71 to survive hundreds of reported attempts by the North Koreans, for example, to destroy it with a variety of advanced surface-to-air missiles.
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