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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 5, 2015

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Funding & Policy

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Bolden: Russian Pullout Would Force ISS Shutdown

Mar 04, 2015
In an exchange with Rep. John Culbertson (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, Administrator Charles Bolden said the possibility of a station shutdown is a strong argument in favor of meeting his agency’s $1.2 billion request for commercial crew vehicles in 2016.
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DMSP 13 Failure Raises Space Oversight Questions

Mar 04, 2015
U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) took nearly a month to openly acknowledge to the press that one of the country’s oldest satellites fragmented into 43 pieces in orbit last month, creating a debris field.
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India Spent $13.5 Billion For Foreign Defense Buys Since 2011

Mar 04, 2015
India spent 838.48 billion rupees ($13.5 billion) acquiring defense equipment from foreign vendors during the last three fiscal years, Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar says.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Mar 06, 2015
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT says fiscal 2016 foreign military financing (FMF) request for Israel is $3.1b. Israel has received $20.5b in FMF since 2009…

In Brief

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Huerta: FAA, DOT ‘Open’ To Discussion On FAA Restructuring

Mar 06, 2015
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta says he and Transportation Department Secretary Anthony Foxx are “open” to discussing a restructuring of the agency,…

Programs

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India Delays Launch Of Fourth Navigation Satellite

Mar 04, 2015
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says the scheduled March 9 launch of the IRNSS-1D navigation satellite has been deferred after an anomaly was found in one of the telemetry transmitters of the spacecraft.
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RAAF, Happy With E-7 Wedgetail, Plans Upgrade

Mar 04, 2015
The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft, operational with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for only about two years, is already in line for upgrades, notably for its Northrop Grumman Mesa radar.

Operations

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U.S. Marines, Sailors Work To Better Integrate Logistics

Mar 05, 2015
The U.S. Marine Corps and Navy are seeing more efficient and streamlined logistics operations through the relatively new Navy Logistics Integration …

Technology

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Lockheed Fiber Laser Disables Truck In Tests

Mar 04, 2015
A 30-kw fiber laser developed by Lockheed Martin has disabled a small truck in field tests of an integrated directed-energy weapon system.
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Lockheed Teams With Lidar Maker Burns On DVE Sensors

Mar 04, 2015
Lockheed Martin will collaborate with laser-radar developer H.N. Burns Engineering to develop systems to enable helicopter pilots to fly in degraded visual environments (DVE).