Saturday, December 11, 2010

DTN News - ECONOMY NEWS: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan Sign Agreement On Trans-Afghan Gas Pipeline....NSI News Source Info # 1343

(NSI News Source Info) ASHGABAT - December 11, 2010: The leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan on Saturday agreed to move forward with a complicated and risky plan to build a natural gas pipeline across rugged territory plagued by war and terrorism.
The pipeline, which would terminate in India, would bring huge amounts of gas to underdeveloped regions and could earn impoverished Afghanistan hundreds of millions of dollars in transit fees.
The route for the 1,700-kilometer TAPI pipeline from gas-rich Turkmenistan would cross Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, where the Taliban and international forces are locked in battle, as well as some of Pakistan’s unruly tribal areas.
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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Afghanistan TODAY December 11, 2010 - Dozens Killed In Series Of Afghanistan Attacks....NSI News Source Info # 1342

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 11, 2010: Violence in north, south and east Afghanistan killed more than a dozen civilians and wounded several more as US President Barack Obama prepares to unveil a review of his strategy for the near decade-long war.
The latest string of attacks comes near the end of the deadliest year since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban, with the escalating insurgency costing the lives of a record number of both ordinary Afghans and foreign troops.

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: RAF And UAE Air Force Join For Exercise Air Khanjar....NSI News Source Info # 1341

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / LONDON, UK - December 11, 2010: The Royal Air Force has recently been working closely with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force in the UAE to build stronger ties between the two militaries and enhance the way they co-operate.
Personnel from the two air forces have been taking part in Exercise Air Khanjar at Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE as part of wider support to a bilateral defence co-operation accord between the UK and the UAE.

DTN News - Seasons Greetings To Our Readers & Viewers From DTN News Defense-Technology News....NSI News Source Info # 1340

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Boeing Delivers 3 More F-15K Slam Eagles To Republic Of Korea....NSI News Source Info # 1339

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Boeing Delivers 3 More F-15K Slam Eagles To Republic Of Korea....NSI News Source Info # 1339
(NSI News Source Info) DAEGU AIR BASE, Republic of Korea, - December 7, 2010: Boeing [NYSE: BA] on Nov. 8 delivered three F-15K Slam Eagles to the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) at Daegu Air Base. The company delivered the first three of 21 F-15Ks it is producing under the Next Fighter II contract to the ROKAF in September. The remaining 15 aircraft will be delivered through March 2012.

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Boeing Team Begins Building Indian Navy's 1st P-8I Aircraft....NSI News Source Info # 1338

(NSI News Source Info) WICHITA, Kan., - December 7, 2010: The Boeing [NYSE: BA] P-8I team began fabricating the first part for the Indian navy's first long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft on Dec. 6 in Wichita. The P-8I, based on the Boeing Next-Generation 737 commercial airplane, is a variant of the P-8A Poseidon that Boeing is developing for the U.S. Navy.

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated December 7, 2010....NSI News Source Info # 1337

(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - December 7, 2010: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued December 7, 2010 are undermentioned;
CONTRACTS
NAVY
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo. (N61340-11-D-1000); CAE USA, Inc., Tampa, Fla. (N61340-11-D-1001); Computer Sciences Corp., Orlando, Fla. (N61340-11-D-1002); Cubic Worldwide Technical Services, Inc., San Diego, Calif. (N61340-11-D-1003); Engineering Support Personnel, Inc.*, Orlando, Fla. (N61340-11-D-1004); Fidelity Technologies Corp., Reading, Pa. (N61340-11-D-1005); L-3 Link Simulation & Training Div., Arlington, Texas (N61340-11-D-1006); and LB&B Associates, Inc., Columbia, Md. (N61340-11-D-1007), are each being awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts for fielded training systems support services in support of over 900 training simulators for the Navy, Army, Air Force, and the governments of Kuwait and Malaysia under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Services to be provided include operations and maintenance support, instruction, training device modifications, training device relocations, training system management, in-service engineering office support, spares/product support, and other related trainer support services. The aggregate not-to-exceed amount for these multiple award contracts combined is $900,000,000, and each contractor will be provided a fair opportunity to compete for individual task orders. Work will be performed in various locations throughout the United States and various outside the continental United States locations. Work performed under these contracts is expected to be completed in December 2015. Contract funds in the amount of $1,622,164 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. These contracts were solicited via a multiple award electronic request for proposals on an unrestricted basis; thirteen offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Sys
tems Division, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity

DTN News - TERRORISM NEWS: India TODAY December 7, 2010 - Terror Strikes Varanasi: 1 Dead, 25 Hurt In Blast At Ghat....NSI News Source Info # 1336

(NSI News Source Info) NEW DELHI, India - December 7, 2010: A two-year-old girl was killed and around 25 people, including a couple of foreigners, were injured in a blast at the Dashashwamedh Ghat during Ganga arati around 6.30pm on Tuesday. Many others were injured in the ensuing stampede while some of the injured were reported to have been hurt by metal pellets. According to official sources, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) has been recovered from a metal dustbin at the Varanasi blast site.

"Winter Has Arrived In Toronto" Says K. V. Seth....NSI News Source Info # 1335

"Winter Has Arrived In Toronto" Says K. V. Seth....NSI News Source Info # 1335
Today, we woke up and noticed all around soft flaky white sheet of snow. Winter has arrived in Toronto.
Photo was taken at 7 am in the morning on December 7, 2010

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: U.S. Military Orders First M-ATV Ambulances From Oshkosh Defense....NSI News Source Info # 1334

(NSI News Source Info) OSHKOSH, Wis. - December 7, 2010: Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK), will provide the U.S. Armed Forces with the first MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (a href=http://bit.ly/bBhGMK>M-ATV) tactical ambulances, giving military medics new capabilities for reaching injured military personnel in otherwise inaccessible battlefield environments. Oshkosh received an order for 250 of the armored, highly mobile ambulances from the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC).

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Kaman Awarded $19 Million Joint Programmable Fuze Order....NSI News Source Info # 1333

(NSI News Source Info) BLOOMFIELD, Conn. - December 7, 2010: Kaman Corporation (NASDAQ-GS:KAMN) announced today that its Aerospace segment has been awarded a commercial sale purchase order for in the amount of $19 million for an undisclosed customer. Delivery of these fuzes is anticipated to occur in 2011.
“With this order and the order announced last week, the backlog for the JPF, one of our largest programs, has grown to $139 million and extends into 2012. Year to date orders from the U.S. Air Force and foreign customers total $126 million demonstrating the importance of the JPF’s high reliability and operational flexibility that is critical to the U.S. and allied militaries around the world,” commented Gregory Steiner, President of the Kaman Aerospace Group.

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: General Dynamics Awarded $19 Million For Saudi Tank Work....NSI News Source Info # 1332

(NSI News Source Info) STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - December 7, 2010: General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was awarded an additional $19 million to convert 15 of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s M1A1 tanks into the M1A2S model. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command on behalf of the Royal Saudi Land Forces.

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Lockheed Martin Team Completes GeoEye-2 Preliminary Design Review Ahead Of Schedule....NSI News Source Info # 1331

(NSI News Source Info) SUNNYVALE, Calif., - December 7, 2010: The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team designing GeoEye’s (NASDAQ: GEOY) next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program’s Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ahead of the planned schedule. The successful PDR completion validated the spacecraft’s design maturity, meeting or exceeding all GeoEye standards and program requirements.

Monday, December 6, 2010

DTN News - BREAKING NEWS: Israel TODAY December 6, 2010 - Israel Extinguishes Forest Fire....NSI News Source Info # 1330

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 6, 2010: A fire that killed 41 people and ravaged big swaths of forest in northern Israel's Carmel region has been extinguished, police have said.
"All of the fires were officially extinguished as of midnight," Mickey Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said on Monday morning.
Dozens of nations had sent firefighting equipment and helped in the effort to put out the four-day fire, which in addition to causing casualties, scorched 50 square kilometres of woodland, destroyed millions of trees, and an estimated dozens of homes.

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Israel Steps Up Greek Training Activities...NSI News Source Info # 1329

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 6, 2010: Greece is the new foreign training zone for the Israeli air force, following the severance of the defence ties between Israel and Turkey.

DTN News - AIRLINES NEWS: Airbus A318 Elite & ACJ To Lead The Field At MEBA....NSI News Source Info # 1328

(NSI News Source Info) BLAGNAC, France- December 6, 2010: Two top-of-the-line Airbus corporate jets will be exhibited at the Middle East and Business Aviation (MEBA) show in Dubai in December, highlighting their success in the region.
They comprise an A318 Elite operated by Al Jaber Aviation (AJA) of Abu Dhabi and an Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) based in Bahrain and operated by Comlux. Both aircraft are available for VVIP charter.

DTN News: NORAD Flight Exercise Planned For Washington, D.C.....NSI News Source Info # 1327

(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - December 6, 2010: NORAD Flight Exercise Planned For Washington, D.C.