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UAV Base Preference Voiced

August 19, 2008 / National Security Programs

Gen. John D.W. Corley, Air Combat Command commander, with concurrence from the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, announced today that Holloman AFB, New Mexico, is the preferred potential location for an additional unmanned aircraft system formal Training unit. This is the first step in a series of actions that could lead to the initial stand-up of FTU operations for MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper combat operators, estimated to start in 2009, pending a favorable environmental impact analysis.

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This Unmanned Raptor Leaves AirSpace For Inner-Space At USAF Museum

August 19, 2008 / National Security Programs

Officials from industry, the Air Force, and the National Museum of the United States Air Force, gathered for the opening of the new RQ-4A Global Hawk exhibit August 12th at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system (UAV) that sends near-real-time reconnaissance imagery to air, ground, and sea forces.

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Boeing To Power Up DARPA Program

August 1, 2008 / National Security Programs

A team led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] Advanced Systems has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for the first phase of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) program. DARPA's FAST is a multiphase effort to design and develop a ground test prototype of a new High Power Generation Subsystem (HPGS) for spacecraft.

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Flight 19 Terminated By U.S.A.F.

August 1, 2008 / National Security Programs

The United States Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) Flight 19 satellite, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), was decommissioned last Friday following nine years of service. Northrop Grumman personnel stationed at the company's Telemetry and Orbital Test Station in Redondo Beach, California, terminated the downlink to Flight 19 at the Air Force's command. Flight 19 was launched on April 9, 1999 on a Titan IV launch vehicle with an Inertial Upper stage (IUS) rocket.

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