
Relevance Score: 4.307 2009-01-31 03:54:27
VARSOVIA - La red de TS2 Satellite Technologies en Irak y Afganistán cuenta con cerca de 15.000 usuarios militares de conexiones locales de satélite de banda ancha TS2 Satellite Technologies http://www.ts2.pl ofrece acceso a Internet de alta velocidad de dos bandas sin línea telefónica, sin cable y sin módem de llamada. Siempre ...
Relevance Score: 3.973 2009-01-03 04:00:00
VARSOVIA, Polonia TS2 Satellite Technologies (http://www.ts2.pl) ha completado la documentación de oferta para JCC-I/A y un proyecto de red satélite para las bases de la Marina en Afganistán. El contrato del gobierno se refiere a establecer y mantener todas las comunicaciones en nuevas localizaciones para todos los soldados asentados allí durante ...
Relevance Score: 2.658 2009-05-15 17:57:20
RazakSAT Malaysia’s remote sensing satellite would be launched in mid-July after its primarly scheduled launching was postponed due to technical problems. RazakSAT shoiuld have been to launched from Omelek island, part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific nation of Marshall Islands, at 6am Malaysian time on April 21. Fadillah Yusof, ...
Relevance Score: 2.566 2009-04-07 10:52:30
The Sydney Morning Herald raport Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announced an A$43 billion (US $30.6 billion) project to create a nationwide high speed broadband network. The goal's to get 90 percent of homes and business up to 100Mbps speeds with fiber optic connection, with a less impressive 12Mbps wireless ...
Relevance Score: 2.366 2010-01-13 16:36:20
Bolivia will set up two stations to control the Tupac Katari satellite, the first one will be placed in La Guardia, Santa Cruz and the second in Tiahuanaco. According to Cambio daily newspaper, about 40 technicians from the Great Wall company in China are now here to advise on the work. The ...
Relevance Score: 1.944 2009-07-28 22:13:58
When training military forces for MOUT (military operations on urban terrain), it is of paramount importance that the training scenarios and environments are as realistic and immersive as possible. In the past, the US military has used Hollywood-style hand-painted facades to mock-up urban theatres - a solution which has lacked ...
Relevance Score: 1.889 2010-01-01 20:47:33
The launch of a French military satellite from French Guiana has been delayed. Arianespace says it stopped the countdown in the final minutes before launch of the Helios 2B. Officials said Thursday that they would soon provide more details. The original launch was delayed on Dec. 9 after officials said they noticed ...
Relevance Score: 1.860 2009-07-07 09:20:04
TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a leading provider of technology solutions and the market leader in electronic control devices (ECDs), today announced that it received an order for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to issue TASER(r) X26(tm) ECDs and related accessories to its base security and law enforcement. "It is ...
Relevance Score: 1.846 2009-12-31 14:12:01
The U.S. Air Force successfully launched a new-generation military communications satellite from here at 8:47 p.m. (EST), when a Delta IV rocket carried a Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) into space. WGS satellites are designed to provide high-capacity communications to U.S. military forces. They will augment and eventually replace the Defense Satellite ...
Relevance Score: 1.823 2009-12-18 01:43:02
The launch of a French military satellite from French Guiana has been delayed again . Arianespace informed it stopped the countdown in the final minutes before launch of the Helios 2B. Officials said Thursday that they would soon provide more details. The original launch was delayed on Dec. 9 after ...
Relevance Score: 1.767 2009-07-29 23:24:16
Russia successfully launched Friday a military satellite from its Plesetsk cosmodrome, Russian news agencies reported. The Meridian communications satellite was put into orbit by a Soyuz-2 rocket, the RIA Novosti news agency cited as saying the spokesman for the Russian military space forces, Alexei Zolotukhin. The satellite, which was launched at 0153 ...
Relevance Score: 1.744 2009-04-22 17:25:14
EaglePicher Technologies LLC in Joplin, Mo., is supplying nickel hydrogen battery space power for the satellite electronics of the Italian SICRAL 1B military communications satellite, which is built by Thales Alenia Space. The military satellite launched on 20 April. The 92Ah batteries will power the defense satellite during eclipse for some ...
Relevance Score: 1.670 2009-05-27 11:53:23
France opened on Tuesday a permanent military base in the Persian Gulf, in a bid to bolster security in the region. The base, located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates, will be home to 400 to 500 French personnel from the Navy, Army and Air Force and will ...
Relevance Score: 1.668 2009-08-05 12:19:12
The US Army has awarded a $200m contract to Israeli-based customised armour systems manufacturer Plasan to armour military trucks. Under the contract, the company will provide custom-built armour systems to 1,700 military vehicles used by the US troops in Afghanistan. The major work will be carried out at the company's facilities in ...
Relevance Score: 1.646 2009-05-06 12:14:08
In the mid-1980s, when the U.S. military adopted the HMMWV and phased out the M-151 jeep, the last of the 1/4 ton jeeps, a capability gap was created for light capacity tactical vehicles. The Polaris, along with the M-Gator and other ATVs, have emerged as one of the solutions, providing ...
Relevance Score: 1.646 2009-08-06 03:08:42
Military officials say the Department of Defense is reviewing its policies on the use of social networking Web sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn has ordered the department-wide review saying these Web sites could compromise security. Lynn said while social networking Internet sites are important ...
Relevance Score: 1.626 2009-05-06 12:39:37
As military platforms like the HMMWV have gained weight to accomodate electronic shelters, weapons systems, and armor a gap opened up at the low end. Tasks that the 1/4 ton jeeps used to perform were overkill for a HMMWV. In tactical situations, the CUCV trucks were not rugged enough or ...
Relevance Score: 1.608 2009-04-28 07:43:13
Boeing Co. won a contract to build a satellite for Intelsat Ltd. to operator having the biggest satellite fleet, that will serve commercial markets and the Australian military. Launched is exptected in the first quarter of 2012 and singal will cover Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The satellite ...
Relevance Score: 1.606 2009-08-04 11:33:45
Military communications remain an essential part of security operations. The technology extends in range from equipping military personnel with devices so they can communicate on operations to providing centralised systems for organising battle and security operations on land, sea and in the air. Nowadays, all military forces rely heavily on ...
Relevance Score: 1.590 2009-03-27 22:01:36
Russia's military Space Forces say they are tracking fragments from a derelict military satellite that has partially disintegrated in orbit. Even small fragments of satellites can be dangerous for others (working ones) so it is extremely important to track those fragments down and get rid out of them. The Space Forces ...
Relevance Score: 1.576 2009-07-26 17:30:58
General Dynamics C4 Systems in Phoenix is introducing the HOOK2 SATCOM satellite terminal base station to provide military radio communications with the satellite communications-enabled AN/PRC-112G combat search and rescue military radio. The SATCOM Base Station enables secure, two-way, worldwide tactical radio communications via military satellite with isolated personnel or rescue forces ...
Relevance Score: 1.568 2009-07-14 23:17:08
The Military Health System is one of the many Defense Department organizations embracing social networking in order to provide information to and receive feedback from servicemembers. Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, director of strategic communications for the Military Health System, detailed the organization’s work in social networking at an event for federal communicators ...
Relevance Score: 1.563 2010-01-01 20:30:27
Iran will present a new-generation military satellite in early February, said the country's defense minister. Ahmad Vahidi was quoted by Press TV that the satellite, called Toloo, was designed and built by Iranian scientists and experts at Iran's Electronics Industries Co. The minister said Iran's armed forces will now be able to ...
Relevance Score: 1.561 2009-08-11 14:32:17
The U.S. has sentenced three Chinese men to federal prison for attempting to export technology with potential military applications to China, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. In separate cases, two of the men were charged with attempting to export thermal-imaging cameras, and a third was charged with illegally exporting ...
Relevance Score: 1.551 2009-07-04 13:42:12
The VMEbus architecture has served military embedded computing extraordinarily well since the VMEbus specification was first published in 1981. VMEbus brought industry standards to a computing world then dominated by proprietary architectures and operating systems, and was in the vanguard of the movement that saw the much more open computing ...
Relevance Score: 1.544 2009-10-02 21:39:54
Intelsat General Corp., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd., has been selected as the first preferred distributor in the United States of X-band and UHF communications services on satellites operated by Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astrium, part of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS). ...
Relevance Score: 1.537 2009-06-29 10:02:31
Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) has reestablished its dominance of the military satellite market and looks set to maintain that leading role given a dearth of big new programs for several years. Boeing Co (BA.N) had threatened to eclipse Lockheed at the start of the decade after winning a huge order ...
Relevance Score: 1.519 2009-07-06 12:08:23
Can you believe it? Civilian "Boot Camps" are springing up all over the place. Folks are paying hundreds of dollars for the privilege of having someone yell at them while they do pushups, sit-ups, and run an obstacle course. Not quite the same thing as real military boot camp, however ...
Relevance Score: 1.513 2009-07-15 17:33:25
Humana Inc. announced that it has lost its bid to continue providing benefits for nearly 2.9 million U.S. soldiers and their families under the U.S. Department of Defense’s TRICARE program. However, officials with the company might protest the award of the contract to UnitedHealth Military & Veterans Services, a division of ...
Relevance Score: 1.503 2009-07-26 21:00:39
Brad Allenby, a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, has been selected to be a Stockdale Fellow for the U. S. Naval Academy Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. The year-long Stockdale Fellowship program brings together scholars and teachers with senior career military officers, civil servants and ...
