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129134
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2014.
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Striking a compromise on a controversial issue, Congress in January passed legislation to provide $537 million, the full amount the Obama administration had requested, for the program to rebuild the B61 nuclear gravity bomb and require the administration to submit detailed reports on alternatives to this plan. Congress also mandated the eventual retirement of a different gravity bomb, the B83, once the B61 is ready for service. These items were part of an omnibus appropriations bill signed by President Barack Obama on Jan. 17. The new law is a $1.1 trillion conglomeration of 12 appropriations bills that had to be passed to keep the government open for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. The legislation includes $7.8 billion for nuclear weapons activities conducted by the Energy Department's semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). One of the key nuclear policy questions left unresolved last year was how much money the NNSA would be allowed to spend to extend the service life of about 400 B61 gravity bombs. About half of the B61s are stored in European NATO countries for use on tactical, or short-range, aircraft; the rest are stored in the United States for use on strategic, or long-range, bombers.
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125778
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2013.
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Radar technology is evolving to meet the board area needs of both manned fixed-wing aircraft and long endurance UASs.
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129148
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2014.
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Insitu has released version 2.0 of its Insitu common command and control (ICOMC2) system for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), upgrading the system to enable users to customize a UAS'C2.
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125779
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2013.
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With the likes of Reaper and Shadow now established on the modern battlefield, manufactures and operators alike are looking at what comes next. Huw Williams canvasses the opinion of some of the leaders in the field and looks at what the future may hold.
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129135
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2014.
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In the wake of recent reports that some Air Force nuclear missile operators have been cheating on performance tests and failing to follow safety rules, the Defense Department announced Jan. 23 that it is launching a review of all U.S. nuclear forces, to be completed in three months. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said at a Jan. 24 press conference that he is "deeply concerned" about "the overall health and the professionalism and discipline of our strategic forces." At the Jan. 23 announcement event, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the review would look not just at the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) force, the main source of the problems, but at the "whole nuclear force," including the Air Force's long-range bombers and the Navy's strategic submarines.
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129158
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2014.
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Thales has invented a new control station that will enable a single operator to simultaneously control three different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
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129157
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2014.
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US army forces planners are beginning to scrustinise the feasibility of unmanned optionally manned ground vehicles as the service seeks lighter weight platforms and the ability to get more use out of reach soldiers.
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129154
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2014.
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The US army is set to install radar systems at five sites as part of its Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) programme.
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129156
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2014.
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Vietnam's military owned telecommunication firm Viettel Group has showcased in indigenously produced Patrol VT tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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