The winners: Airbus subsidiary European Aeronautic Space and Defense Co. (EADS) and Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman.
The winners: Airbus subsidiary European Aeronautic Space and Defense Co. (EADS) and Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ).
"We do not currently have the capability to track debris smaller than 10 centimeters, but our estimate is that there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris that size and smaller that have the potential to do damage, " said Frank Rose, deputy assistant secretary of state for space and defense policy.
From August 1998 to February 2000, Myers was commander-in-chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command, and commander of Air Force Space Command, responsible for U.S. defense via space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations.
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During his military career, he briefly served as commanding general of the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense command.
The biggest cause of the 0.1% contraction in the U.S. economy was a sharp decline in government spending, chiefly in the defense space.
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That's an argument in favor of developing space-based defense systems.
"Sending (the monkey into space) and retrieving it was the first step for sending humans into space, " Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
Interestingly, the disparity in favor of a space-based defense could be even more dramatic but for cost-growth associated with schedule delays -- delays driven by congressionally imposed budget cuts intended to hamstring the Brilliant Pebbles development program.
We have agreed on steps to expand our cooperation in space, civil nuclear defense and other high-end sectors.
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EADS, formerly known as European Aeronautic Defense and Space, is based in the Netherlands but has its headquarters in France.
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Airbus, whose parent company is European Aeronautics Defense and Space, booked only 790 orders last year, well below the 1, 044 won by Boeing.
Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and former Chief Negotiator at the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks in Geneva.
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It involves a stealthy Russian government effort to become a major shareholder in, and influence over, the European Aeronautics, Defense and Space (EADS) consortium.
Decades ago, the U.S. established the Federal Helium Reserve to provide a readily available supply of helium for defense, space, and scientific research needs.
Still, the delay diminishes the company's credibility, benefiting European Aeronautic Defense and Space unit Airbus, in the battle for control of the commercial jet market.
Meanwhile, putting any kind of defense in space, where it might shoot down a missile on the way up instead of down, is strictly forbidden.
Moscow is investing heavily in laser and space-oriented strategic defense activities.
"This really gives them strategic reach in the Indian Ocean, " says Vivek Lall, vice president in charge of Boeing's defense, space and security operations in India.
Imagine Lockheed Missiles and Space without NASA and defense spending.
For example, members of NATO, along with Russia, are worried about suggestions that Bush might pull U.S. peacekeeping troops out of the Balkans, and try to implement a space-based missile defense system.
Airbus, whose parent company is European Aeronautics Defense and Space (other-otc: EADSF - news - people ), booked only 790 orders last year, well below the 1, 044 won by Boeing.
Still, it only further diminishes the company's credibility and places it at a further disadvantage to European Aeronautic Defense and Space unit Airbus, in the battle for control of the commercial jet market.
Still, the delay diminishes the company's credibility, benefiting European Aeronautic Defense and Space (other-otc: EADSF - news - people ) unit Airbus, in the battle for control of the commercial jet market.
Ordinarily I would probably talk about space security or missile defense at a group like this, but this evening I am going to change the subject, because frankly of an emergency that faces the United States government.
But, with the large-scale entry of the European Aeronautic, Defense and Space (EADS) consortium into the U.S. market, DoD is finding itself in a procurement Catch-22 that would have even Joseph Heller, the creator of the phrase, in awe.
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The WTO has ruled that for over forty years the European government owners of Airbus and its later formed parent the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) have been have been undermining that wellspring and harming the U.S. aviation industry.
Still, it only further diminishes the company's credibility and places it at a further disadvantage to European Aeronautic Defense and Space (other-otc: EADSF - news - people ) unit Airbus, in the battle for control of the commercial jet market.
Kadish declared that such a layered system, comprised over time of a range of systems to address an evolving threat, would likely utilize sea- and space-based missile defense "layers" to complement and add robustness to the ground-based capability he is preparing for deployment in Alaska.
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