Defense spending cuts on horizon but depot in a strong position, say advocates

Source: Scranton Times-Tribune

The Tobyhanna Army Depot is still flush with electronics maintenance work at the moment, but proposals to cut defense and other federal spending, plus the end of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, could signal leaner times ahead and maybe fewer job ...
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Navy Building Advanced Destroyers

Source: Iran Daily

Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the country is building new destroyers to beef up its strength. Rear Admiral Sayyari said on Saturday that the Iranian Navy is producing destroyers that are more advanced and sophisticated than the ind ...
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'Iran Navy building advanced destroyers'

Source: Press TV

Rear Admiral Sayyari said on Saturday that the Iranian Navy is producing destroyers that are more advanced and sophisticated than the indigenously-manufactured Jamaran as part of its broader plans for boosting its fleets in ...
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Faculty and staff announce recent presentations, publications

Source: UDaily

1:14 p.m., May 25, 2012--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni. Recent honors, presentations, press, publications and service include the followin ...
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When Science Seems Like Magic

Source: The New York Times

Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin The exhibition “Surface Tension: The Future ofWater.” THE science-fiction author and technology prophet Arthur C. Clarke once said that a technology sufficiently advanced from ...
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Report reveals fake chips in US military hardware

Source: Electronics Design, Strategy, News

LONDON -- More than a million suspect counterfeit electronic components have been used in 1,800 separate cases of bogus parts affecting US military hardware, according to a report produced by the Senate Armed Services Committe ...
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Davis relinquishes command of 2nd MAW: A look back at two years of expeditionary warfare

Source: DVIDS

CHERRY POINT, N.C. - The Marine Corps’ East Coast aviation element underwent a change in leadership today when Maj. Gen. Jon M. Davis handed over command to Maj. Gen. Glenn M. Walters during a 9 a.m. ceremony at the flight line here. “I think the wing is ...
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Game On: A 19th-Century Approach to Photographing Modern Warfare

Source: The New York Times

In an open field, a soldier lays limp, face down in the grass. The ghostly image recalls the early documentation of war by Mathew Brady , Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner , but unlike these photographers, Karl Burke has never set ...
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