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...Four people familiar with the MQ-9 sale said Washington would allow the aircraft to be integrated into the same system that US forces in the region and the Japanese Self-Defense Force will use....
...its Krab self-propelled howitzer....
...Yet the opposition’s self-serving story leaves out some crucial details as well....
...Meanwhile, industry giants Alibaba and Baidu face new hurdles in manufacturing their latest self-designed AI processors....
...An ADIZ is a self-declared buffer zone in international airspace in which countries monitor flight movements for potential security threats....
...The cyber security firm said it had also monitored campaigns against rare earths companies Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp and USA Rare Earth, and against US president Joe Biden’s Defense Production Act...
...From a converted karate dojo above a Pittsburgh liquor store, Toby Rice, a self-described “shalennial” who runs one of America’s biggest energy companies, has a plan to fix global warming and soothe European...
...It has been a busy few months for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Pentagon arm that oversees foreign military sales....
...“[It] will expand Japan’s network to Europe and contribute to strengthening its security environment, while potentially making exports possible,” says Katsutoshi Kawano, the former chief of Japan’s Self-Defense...
...“Large amounts of social commentary will be directed against them, voicing a nationalist sentiment for a more self-sufficient, self-reliant technological ecosystem in which companies in India, with Indian...
...One Quincy piece was written by another soldier turned anti-exceptionalist: former Marine Corps first lieutenant Gil Barndollar....
...As it chases Amazon in cloud computing, Microsoft was recently awarded a landmark US Department of Defense contract worth up to $10bn....
...Defense contracts, unsurprisingly, often came with regulatory conditions and government strong-arming....
...In a statement, Microsoft said: “Security experts across the industry agree that the best protection is to be on a modern, up-to-date system that incorporates the latest defense-in-depth innovations....
...Panicked Chinese oil workers employed by the China National Petroleum Corp, the main client of DeWe (pronounced “DeWei”) in South Sudan, were calling an emergency number to say they were in harm’s way and...
...Dr Pratt, who previously oversaw the Robotics Challenge contest run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, says this is one of the toughest problems facing autonomous vehicle technology....
...The warning from Israel’s top cyber-official might be interpreted as self-serving, given Israeli companies’ increasing profits in the field....
...Self-parking systems are designed to make parking easier, but could be used to take control of the car’s steering....
...We also find large positive abnormal return to the self-reported hedge fund activists during our sample period....
...Japan will also send about 1,000 troops to the affected areas, roughly matching the biggest ever deployment of the country’s Self-Defense Forces to Indonesia nine years ago, during the aftermath of the southeast...
...The $1.2tn in automatic spending cuts over a decade, half of which would affect the Defense Department, are scheduled to begin in January 2013, reports Bloomberg....
...So far, GE and Rolls have spent “tens of millions of dollars” on the self-funding effort....
...“These tenders will help us move forward toward self-sufficiency,” Mr Shahrani said....
...“We believe so strongly in our engine and the need for competition in defence procurement that we have committed to self-fund F136 development costs,” Jeff Immelt, chief executive of GE, said....
...“We intend to self-fund the programme while we get through this budget issue,” said GE....
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