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• Natural Gas Pipeline Between Turkmenistan And Xinjiang Opens

  
  Tamerlane's Thoughts — Authority: 133
  While we in the West focus on Tiger Woods latest mistress and Kourtney Kardashians baby, China just opened a natural gas pipeline that connects Turkmenistan (which ranks #4 in the world in natural gas production) to Chinas restive Xinjiang province. The pipeline runs through vibrant democracies Uzbekistan and ...
  16 hours ago

• US Army Orders 3,205 TRX Trainers to Keep Deployed Troops Fit

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  Tanks for the Workout (click to view full) The US Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Command purchased 3,205 TRX Suspension Trainer kits from Fitness Anywhere in San Francisco, CA to help deployed troops keep fit in any combat environment. Developed by a group of US Navy SEALs, the TRX ...
  2 days ago

• Up to $318M to Lockheed Martin to Support Counter-IED Teams

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  IEDs: The Aftermath (click to view full) Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems in Ellicott City, MD won a $318 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity time-and-material task order to provide operational support services for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) analytical support ...
  5 days ago

• MARSS: Quasi-Civilian Spy Plane Service Ordered by Pentagon, Canada

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  RC-7B “Crazy Hawk” The US military has planes like F-22A stealth fighters that make a lot of news. It also has planes that make very little news, even though they play key roles in a number of conflicts around the world. One example is the RC-7B/EO-5B “Crazy Hawk”/ Airborne Reconnaissance Low aircraft, ...
  6 days ago

• Lend Me Your Ears: US Military Turns to Contractor Linguists

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  “Lend me your ears” (click to view full) The US military has come to rely more and more on contractors to provide linguist services to function effectively in non-English speaking regions. The need for these services is particularly acute in the Middle East and Central Asia where US troops are actively engaged. ...
  1 week ago

• New BPO center tower opens up in Bonifacio Global City

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 136
  Asia’s leading developer and manager of business space, Ascendas Pte Ltd. (Ascendas), recently opened the ACCRALAW Tower located within the E-square in Bonifacio Global City. Present as guest of honor in its opening ceremony was Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo. The new business process outsourcing (BPO) ...
  1 week ago

• $54M to General Dynamics for USMC Combat Operations Center Replacements

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  US Marine Corps’ COC (click to view full) General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, AZ received a $54.2 million modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (M67854-02-C-2052) to supply 24 Marine Expeditionary Brigade – Afghanistan Combat Operations Center (COC) replacement systems, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 46 Years Before Obama’s Afghanistan (Video): Kennedy and Vietnam

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 592
  Just a bit of historical reflection, which may or may not be connected with events of today. I suspect a lot of readers and viewers will be familiar with the first of these interviews, in which President John F. Kennedy declared about the conflict in South Vietnam, “In the final analysis, it is their war.” ...
  2 weeks ago

• US Army Wants 120mm GPS-Guided Mortars to Fight Afghan Insurgents

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  120mm M120 mortar (click to view full) The US Army is pushing to get precision mortars developed and deployed to the field in Afghanistan as soon as possible. The precision mortars are needed to target insurgents who are dug in along mountain ridgelines and other high positions. Three companies are competing to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pakistan’s P-3 Orions

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  Pakistani P-3 (click to view full) In late 2004, Portuguese aircraft refitter OGMA was chosen by Lockheed Martin in Marietta, GA to refit Pakistan’s 2 P-3C Update II.5 Orion maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft for service. In addition, Pakistan was preparing to buy 8 US Navy surplus P-3C aircraft through ...
  3 weeks ago

• 4 New Mi-17 Helicopters to Afghan Army

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  Afghan Army Mi-17s (click to view full) In July 2009, The Afghan National Army Air Corps (ANAAC) bought 4 more Mi-17 variant helicopters and related tool kits from Defense Technology Inc. (DTI), who provides military hardware from the former Soviet Union to the U.S. Department of Defense and the defense ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan’s JF-17 Fighter Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  FC-1/ JF-17, armed (click to view full) Back in January 2007, DID wrote: “The military world has no shortage of irony. The defense industry has its moments too, as Pakistan just discovered. An aircraft whose development was driven by military sanctions from the US and Europe is now derailed by military ...
  3 weeks ago

• Empires of The Silk Road

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 608
  The publisher--they wanted me to review the book?!?-- recently sent me a copy of Christopher I. Beckwiths book, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Ive already read the book and have my own well worn, dog-eared, underlined and highlighted copy. So, the first ...
  3 weeks ago

• Up to $8.9M to Terex for USMC MAC-50 Crane Logistics Support

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 542
  Terex’s MAC-50 Crane (click to view larger) Terex Corp. in Fredericksburg, VA received a $7 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract from the US Marine Corps (USMC) to provide maintenance logistics support for the company’s 50-ton military all-terrain cranes (MAC-50) in ...
  4 weeks ago

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