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« on: January 17, 2008, 11:51:42 pm »

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 10:17 AM EST

Local defense firm wins $23M communications system contract

Dayton Business Journal

MTC Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $23 million, five-year military contract.

The Riverside-based company will work on IT solutions for U.S. Department of Defense communications systems and will manage the work and provide technical and IT support from its office in O'Fallon, Ill., according to a Tuesday release.

The award enhances MTC's (Nasdaq: MTCT) reputation as an IT and communications solution provider for the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense, according to the company.

The Dayton area's largest defense contractor announced in late December that it will be sold to Maryland defense giant BAE Systems Inc.

MTC, spearheaded by one of Dayton's most prominent businessmen, will become part of BAE Systems' Customer Solutions operating group, headquartered in Arlington, Va.

Both companies said there are no current plans to eliminate jobs or close facilities due to the acquisition.

MTC, founded by Raj Soin, has about 425 employees locally and has been in Riverside since it was founded in 1984.

Source: http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2008/01/14/daily19.html

 

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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2008, 11:52:22 pm »

MTC Technologies Wins $23 Million Air Force Contract

Released : Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:10 AM

January 16, 2008 (FinancialWire) MTC Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTCT) has been awarded a $23 million contract to perform long haul communications and information technology support services. The five-year, firm fixed price contract was awarded by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization for the Air Force Communications Agency. Under the contract, MTC will be responsible for IT solutions for several communications systems essential to enable the Departments of the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Defense Logistics Agency to provide telecommunications acquisition and circuit management services for their respective military service's management functions, Defense Information Systems Agency, and other DoD customers. Dayton, Ohio-based MTC offers systems engineering, information technology, intelligence, and program management services primarily to the Department of Defense.

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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2008, 11:53:25 pm »

Foreign services intensify activity due to radar-Czech official

18:29 - 16.01.2008

Prague- Foreign intelligence services from many countries and not only from Russia have intensified their activities in the Czech Republic in connection with the planned stationing of a U.S. missile defence radar on Czech soil, Chamber of Deputies defence committee head Jan Vidim said.


Military intelligence service director Ondrej Palenik, head of the UZSI civilian intelligence service Ivo Schwarz and director of the BIS civilian counter-intelligence service Jiri Lang today attended a closed meeting of the committee at which they informed its members about the interest foreign intelligence services are showing in the radar.

Vidim said that the Czech secret services were thoroughly monitoring foreign services' efforts.

"We have received information about several very specific methods of the foreign intelligence services' influence and naturally also information about counter-measures taken by our special services," Vidim said.

He said that foreign intelligence services' activities in similar cases pose the threat to the country's security.

"There is nothing surprising since these services were established to obtain such information," Vidim said, adding that the foreign services were seeking to obtain more information than it is possible to do from open sources.

The Czech Republic has so far only reacted to the interest in the radar on the intelligence level, Vidim said.

He again said that last year the number of Russian diplomats in the Czech Republic had considerably increased.

"The increase is enormous and does not correspond to the position of our country," he said.

The Czech media have recently informed about the suspicion that the Russian intelligence service is financing Czech opponents of the U.S. radar or supporting them in other ways.

According to the media, the annual reports by the BIS and the Military intelligence indicate this.

However, members of the No to Bases civic group then denied drawing financial means from Russia. A CTK source from the intelligence services community then said that the support from the Russian side should not be only financial but mainly ideological. Nevertheless, he did not rule out that certain groups could receive small sums of money.

According to the source, these groups should not necessarily be aware of the support from Russian intelligence officers in many cases since they might be supported by them secretly and through other persons.

The Czech opponents of the radar organise demonstrations in protest against radar and they also publish their own information materials.

The Czech government started the talks with the USA on the conditions of the stationing of the radar base in the Czech Republic last year, although the public opinion and the opposition do not support the idea.

According to a December CVVM poll, 70 percent of Czechs disagree with the radar and 23 percent support it.

The base is to be built in the Brdy military grounds, some 90km southwest of Prague.

Source: http://www.ctk.cz/english/news/english_view.php?id=291671

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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2008, 11:54:26 pm »

U.S. and Czech Republic close in on framework agreements for missile shield

By Judy Dempsey
Published: January 16, 2008
 

BERLIN: The Czech Republic and the United States are within months of signing three framework agreements on the deployment of the Pentagon's missile shield, Karel Schwarzenberg, the Czech foreign minister, said Wednesday.

One would be related to the deployment of radar installations on Czech territory, the second would involve U.S. and Czech companies cooperating on research, development and the deployment of the ballistic missile defense system, and the third would establish the status of U.S forces stationed on Czech territory, he said.

"We hope to conclude the negotiations on the text by the end of spring," Schwarzenberg said, referring to the defense cooperation agreement. "The document should minimize the legal, trade and political limitations and create favorable conditions for establishing new ties and contacts between Czech and American researchers and businessmen."

The Czech announcement, during talks in Prague that included Lieutenant General Henry Obering, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and U.S. and Czech defense contractors, came as Poland's new center-right government resumed negotiations with the U.S. over the terms for deploying up to ten interceptors on Polish territory. Poland is asking the U.S to contribute in large part to financing and modernizing Poland's air defense system, possibility by providing Patriot missiles, as well as carrying the costs for the maintenance and security of the bases for the interceptors.

The Polish demands, which were presented this week during talks in Washington between Robert Gates, the U.S. defense secretary, and his Polish counterpart, Bogdan Klich, are being considered by the Pentagon. "This is about our American friends contributing to modernizing our air defense system," Klich said Wednesday after two days of talks.

Poland's new government has taken a much tougher stance than the previous conservative Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Kaczynski did not link deployment of the system to U.S. financial assistance.

Poland still has some cards to play. Donald Tusk, the prime minister, has said he would withdraw the remainder of Poland's 900 troops from Iraq this year. At the same time, Poland would enhance its presence in Afghanistan. Warsaw has 1,200 soldiers in Afghanistan and is prepared to send 400 more troops in the coming months, according to Poland's defense ministry.

The Pentagon said this week it would send an extra 3,200 troops, most of them Marines, to Afghanistan, after repeated requests by NATO commanders for additional forces. The Marines will serve in Afghanistan for seven months, increasing the total number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to about 30,000 from about 27,000 now. But U.S. defense officials said they expected other NATO allies to respond accordingly.

"We're going to need our allies' help to either backfill this deployment or to perhaps match us in the numbers we're putting forth," said Geoff Morrell, Pentagon Press Secretary. "At the very least, we would hope they would take a serious look at backfilling this deployment after the Marines leave at the end of this year." Commanders of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have said in the past that they require another 7,500 troops to confront Taliban insurgents and to help train new Afghan soldiers and police, Morrell said.

Polish diplomats said Wednesday they did not expect Washington to respond quickly to its requests, given the costs they would entail. "We are not in a rush to conclude the deal. We are looking for good terms," Tusk said in recent interview.

But some Polish commentators warned that the government must not overplay its hand, particularly since it wants to update its air defenses. If the talks are long drawn out and stretch into the next U.S. administration, Poland could be left with nothing, because the Democrats are less than enthusiastic about the missile shield.

The Czech Republic has set much more modest demands than Poland. It has requested that its companies be involved in some of the defense contracts but also the development of the system. "I foresee the cooperation on two basic levels: the exchange of know-how and investment, including eventually the transfer of certain industrial activities to this country," said Martin Bartak, deputy defense minister.

The Czech Republic and Poland began talks with Washington more than a year ago when both governments were asked by Washington to consider hosting parts of the shield, infuriating Russia.

Unable to persuade Warsaw, Prague or Washington to change course, President Vladimir Putin last month suspended Russian participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/16/europe/16shield.php
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2008, 11:56:09 pm »

US ready to meet key condition on missile shield: Poland
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States is "ready to begin talks" about modernizing the Polish military, a key condition set by Warsaw for allowing US defensive missiles to be sited in Poland, Poland's defense minister said here Tuesday.

"The readiness of the American side to talk about this issue is the major result of my visit to Washington," Bogdan Klich told reporters after meeting separately with State Department officials and his US counterpart, Robert Gates.

"In Poland, we don't see the right balance between the costs and benefits of the installation of the missiles on our territory, and we would like to improve this ratio with the contribution of our American friends in the process of modernizing our air defense system," Klich said.

"I appreciate the declaration of the Americans that they are ready to talk about a US contribution to the modernization of our armed forces," he said.

Washington wants to install 10 interceptor missiles in Poland by 2012 as part of a defensive system against possible missile attacks by so-called rogue states such as Iran.

The plan calls for associated radar stations in the Czech Republic.

Poland's recently installed liberal government, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, has broken with the previous conservative government's tendency to give unconditional backing to the US proposal to site the missiles in Poland.

Klich was the first high-ranking official from the new Polish government, which took office in November, to travel to Washington for talks on the missile defense shield and Poland's contribution to international military missions.

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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2008, 11:57:29 pm »

Obering: threat of Iranian, DPRK missile attack real
 
08:43, January 17, 2008
 
The threat of development and tests of ballistic missiles in Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is real and growing, Henry Obering, chief of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), said at a seminar on Czech-U.S. cooperation in missile defense on Wednesday.

Obering said Iran would be able to develop a ballistic missile that could hit Europe and the United States in 2015.

He said the construction of the missile defense shield must start already now so that the growing missile threat from Iran maybe faced in time.

Transatlantic security was indivisible. If Europe is not safe, the United States is not safe either, he said.

The Unites States has made progress in the talks on NATO's involvement in the missile defense system, He added.

On the other hand, the talks with Russia have showed no progress, he indicated.

According to Obering, the talks with the Czech government had gone farther than those with Poland that have slowed down.

The reason is the creation of a new Polish government and its demands for security guarantees.

The United States initiated the plan to deploy an anti-missile radar base in the Czech Republic and a missile interceptor base in Poland.

Negotiations between the Czech Republic and the United States on the radar project are still underway, while the former is expected to give its final decision later this year.

Russia has expressed its strong objections to the U.S. missile defense program in Poland and the Czech Republic, citing its own security.

Some 70 percent of Czechs reject the planned U.S. radar base in their country, according to the latest survey conducted by the CVVM polling institute.

Source: Xinhua

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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2008, 11:58:50 pm »

Japan Surveys Anti-Missile Shield Site in Tokyo, Kyodo Reports
By Aaron Sheldrick

Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's Defense Ministry started surveying a site in central Tokyo as a possible location for an anti-missile shield, Kyodo News reported, citing unidentified government officials.

The ministry tested vehicles and communications for Patriot missile interceptors at Shinjuku Imperial Garden yesterday and today, Kyodo said. The park is situated near Shinjuku, which houses the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's main offices, and is close to the Defense Ministry's headquarters.

Japan last year started installing U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles outside Tokyo as part of plans for a ground-based missile defense system.

Tensions in northeast Asia rose after North Korea tested seven ballistic missiles in July 2006, including one that American officials say may be able to reach the U.S. North Korea detonated a nuclear device in October of the same year.

To contact the reporter on this story: Aaron Sheldrick in Tokyo at asheldrick@... .

Last Updated: January 15, 2008 00:25 EST


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« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2008, 12:12:33 am »

U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Team Completes On-Orbit Deployment of Modernized GPS Satellite in Record Time

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Article Last Updated: 01/16/2008 08:15:35 AM MST

DENVER, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 20, 2007, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe, following a record-setting on-orbit deployment by a joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team.

Lockheed Martin's operations team assisted Air Force Space Command's 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) and its Reserve associate unit 19 SOPS based at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. with the launch and early orbit operations. The team conducted the on-orbit deployment and checkout of all spacecraft systems in just over three days. Upon completion of navigation payload initialization, the satellite was declared operational on Jan. 2 for both civil and military users.

Designated GPS IIR-18M, the satellite is the fifth in a series of eight Block IIR-M spacecraft that Lockheed Martin Navigation Systems has modernized for its customer, the Global Positioning Systems Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. The Block IIR-M series includes new features that enhance operations and navigation signal performance for military and civilian GPS users around the globe.

"After launch, our aim was to achieve a new level of performance for our Air Force customer by allowing another sophisticated GPS IIR-M satellite to begin service as quickly and efficiently as possible," said Don DeGryse, Lockheed Martin's vice president of Navigation Systems. "This record-setting on-orbit achievement -- as well as the overall success of the GPS IIR-M program -- is a great testament to the close collaboration and partnership between the Lockheed Martin and Air Force team."

Representing the second successful GPS IIR-M mission in just two months, the satellite joins four IIR-M satellites and 12 other operational Block IIR satellites within the current 30-spacecraft constellation.

Each IIR-M satellite includes a modernized antenna panel that provides increased signal power to receivers on the ground, two new military signals for improved accuracy, enhanced encryption and anti-jamming capabilities for the military, and a second civil signal that will provide users with an open access signal on a different frequency.

The Global Positioning System enables properly equipped users to determine precise time and velocity and worldwide latitude, longitude and altitude to within a few meters. Air Force Space Command's 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) manages and operates the GPS constellation for both civil and military users.

Lockheed Martin is also leading a team which includes ITT and General Dynamics in the competition to build the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System, GPS Block III. The next-generation program will improve position, navigation, and timing services for the warfighter and civil users worldwide and provide advanced anti-jam capabilities yielding improved system security, accuracy and reliability.

A multi-billion dollar development contract is scheduled to be awarded by the Global Positioning Systems Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. in early 2008.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2006 sales of $39.6 billion.

Media Contact: Steve Tatum, 408-742-7531; e-mail, Stephen.o.tatum@...

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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2008, 01:51:21 pm »

I wouldn't worry about it.  Any strikes would be disabled by any of the Selenites doing any Earth monitoring.

Exo-humans and aliens have rendered whole nuclear facilities on Earth inert and inoperable.

It's like that have a magnetic master-switch to shut Earth humanities' WMDs down if need be.
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