If past experience is any guide, such agreements will impose significant constraints on U.S. abilities to introduce new military technologies.
It is also factual to say that no one has ever offered any evidence that Huawei has been involved in any military technologies at any time.
In the past, the United States has found it difficult to obtain Japanese military technologies it wished to have transferred to this country -- despite existing, bilateral arrangements for doing so.
So even though Lockheed Martin looks well positioned both at home and abroad to weather any downturn in Pentagon demand, it is working hard to leverage military technologies into the commercial marketplace.
The 2001, 2006, and 2010 QDRs attempted to address this fact, but failed to make a compelling argument, in part because they juxtaposed the requirements to maintain a two-MRC force structure with the requirements to address other missions and investment objectives, whether in capabilities for other missions or in advanced military technologies.
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In the past we talked about "dual use" military-civilian technologies, but truth be told, not much of what's in a bomb migrates back to a BMW. However, the money flowing into military and homeland infra-structure security will leverage revolutionary technologies and materials of the new digital age.
United Technologies military helicopters will see increased use in Afghanistan but like Honeywell, its bread and butter is on the civil side.
Companies like Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will train military spouses in new technologies so they can start their own businesses.
It has twice the military revenues of Finmeccanica, and nearly three times the military revenues of United Technologies.
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The unit develops technologies for military food, parachutes and clothes.
These statements on the characteristics of the RMA demonstrate a strong conviction among some Chinese military analysts that information technologies will be the critical foundation for success in future wars.
In many ways, the post-Cold War period resembles the interwar interregnum, during which military powers experimented with new technologies, organizations, and doctrine.
Many of these defense projects ended up providing the military with telecommunication and Internet technologies that later became widely used by the public.
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While many may want to condemn these proposed technologies as nefarious military weapons likely to do more harm than good, it would be foolish to do so without first considering the commercial applications likely to flow from these technologies.
This is especially true with respect to the hemorrhage of technologies well suited to military applications and that will certainly be supplied to the East in the absence of such a mechanism.
As insurgents modify their devices to outwit the military, the military in turn adapts its own jamming technologies.
The group has a separate arrangement with the Department of Defense to show the military more early-stage companies and technologies.
Unfortunately, policies in place at other government agencies may deprive the military of some cutting-edge medical technologies that are particularly useful on the battlefield.
Rare earth elements are also used for military applications, such as advanced optics technologies, radar and radiation detection equipment, and advanced communications systems, according to a 2011 research report by the US Government Accountability Office.
Fundamentally, Russia's military remains anxious to obtain and incorporate Western technologies into its weapons systems.
That same logic helps explain the long-term staying power of companies like General Electric and United Technologies, both of which are major military contractors despite being focused mainly in commercial businesses.
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Unlike rival Connecticut conglomerate General Electric, United Technologies maintained an extensive presence in the military marketplace after the Cold War ended, and is continuing on that path by purchasing Goodrich even as it grows civil and commercial aerospace revenues.
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As the military increasingly turns to commercial off- the-shelf technologies, this trend will only grow.
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Worse, those probes reportedly represent but a small fraction of the more than 1, 000 German businesses suspected of illegally providing Third World countries with advanced weapons and dual-use technologies (namely, those with both civilian and military applications).
There must be times when executives at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman wish they had the same options as Boeing and United Technologies, given the frequently capricious behavior of their military customer (both are currently battling unexpected Pentagon moves to cut back or kill key weapons programs).
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Third, there is the way in which military demand is converging with commercial demand in terms of what new technologies are most valued.
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The U.S. military has also invested in a range of flexible solar-panel technologies designed to power everything from night vision equipment and image intensification devices to laser-range finders, battlefield-ready laptop computers.
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" However, according to DARPA's program manager, Scott Littlefield, it is more about the big picture, saying, "To allow military ships and aircraft to focus on unique military missions they alone can fulfill, it makes sense to develop technologies to leverage standard commercial container ships.
It s the leader in expensive high-end positioning technologies, including GPS, laser and optical systems for the military, aviation, surveying, mapping and construction.
However, if those technologies can easily be repurposed to efficiently mine data in a military context, then national security concerns could arise in a sale to a foreign buyer.
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