Its space and communications division, based in Seal Beach, California, is the lead contractor working on America's national missile-defence system, as well as the provider of the future combat system that is part of the integrated battlespace system for the army.
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The UAV space represents the wave of the future for combat systems, said Manan K. Shah, a managing partner at Focus Investment Banking, adding that many defense companies such as Boeing (NYSE:BA), Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and Lockheed Martin could look for acquisitions in the sector.
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The appropriators proposed to reduce funding for the last remnant of the Future Combat System, a next-generation fighting vehicle, by about three quarters.
Termination of the Future Combat System in April of 2009 was accompanied by the usual assurances that its technology would be applied to other efforts, but little came of that.
Also vulnerable are companies heavily dependent on expensive new high-tech programs, which now go under the rubric of Future Combat Systems.
Few capabilities are more indispensable to the future combat effectiveness of the Marines than those that enable troops and equipment to be rapidly and survivably transported from assault ships over the beach and around the battle zone.
That was the general reaction of the whole Congress to the Future Combat System.
This would involve delaying or reducing procurement of the mainstay of the Corps' future combat capabilities, with potentially profound repercussions.
The results of the study have important implications for efforts to combat future climate change which are likely to take place alongside attempts to lower air pollution levels.
The Future Combat System became the centerpiece of Army modernization from 2003, when it was formally introduced, until the end of the Bush administration.
The weaponry and combat vehicles of the future Black Ops 2 suggests well-researched military advancements, and putting all of this research for gamers to use before real modern combat feels like a morbid privilege.
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We see it in the students and teachers, the scientists and researchers who are unlocking new innovations, including the clean, renewable energy sources that we need to combat climate change and create the industries of the future.
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After all, the very foundation of the future military force rests on the limited number of planes able to carry vehicles and equipment, such as the Army's Future Combat Systems.
Called the Future Combat System, it was a family of 18 ground and airborne vehicles, both manned and unmanned, that would be linked together by a wireless network of unprecedented capacity.
Mr. Gates scrapped much of the Army's multibillion dollar Future Combat Systems, after it became clear that its lighter, faster, more fuel-efficient vehicles would not do much to protect soldiers from the threat of improvised explosive devices.
But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
In 2000, Congress directed a reconfiguration of the program and shifted funding from the FSCS to a more ambitious concept known as Future Combat System (FCS).
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The Army has also incorporated a myriad of advanced technologies and lessons learned for Iraq and Afghanistan into its Future Combat Systems to meet current needs in the field and to ensure victory in future wars.
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They are mindful that revolutionary aviation breakthroughs like the Osprey have rarely been accomplished by the armed forces without accidents and loss of life and that the sacrifice entailed thus far will be rewarded by far fewer losses in future combat and peacetime operations.
Thursday's discussion touched on some of the weaknesses in security that led to the thefts as well as steps taken to combat and future losses.
Although the major combat operations that toppled the Saddam regime were over by May 1, the war to determine the future of Iraq continues.
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They did so in the conviction that this extraordinary technology can and must be brought to bear so that untold thousands of their countrymen can perform dangerous combat, search and rescue, special operations and other missions in the future in greater safety and with greater likelihood of success than with helicopter alternatives.
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