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Reuters.com October 6, 2009 Navy Vows Focus On Quality Ships, Affordability By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters WASHINGTON -- The Navy, buffeted by years of cost overruns and delays in shipbuilding, on Tuesday said it was implementing a host of measures to address past problems and deliver quality ships ...

Los Angeles Times October 5, 2009 Contest For Air Force Refueling Tanker Contract Again Hits Turbulence Boeing and Northrop are vying for a $35-billion deal to replace a fleet of in-flight refueling jets. But criticism of the evaluation process could cause the competition to be scrapped for a third...

CQ Weekly October 5, 2009 Pg. 2206 Navy Gets Bigger Role In Missile Defense By Frank Oliveri, CQ Staff When President Obama last month scrapped a Bush administration plan to base missile defenses in Eastern Europe as protection against Iran, he eased tensions with Russia, whose leaders considered t...

RF wrote:This is a huge mass of information, which will take quite a while to digest.

Thanks for all the posts, USS ALASKA.

Not a problem sir - hope this was the info you were looking for.

Bloomberg.com October 2, 2009 Boeing Gets $51.9 Million Job For 30,000-Pound Bomb By Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News Boeing Co. has received a $51.9 million contract to make minor modifications to the U.S. Defense Department’s largest bomb so it can be carried on the B-2 stealth bomber, the Pentagon ...

Not about ships but posted it because of the name. Who in DoD came up with "Information Domination Corps"? Any bets on how long that name lasts? Mideast Stars and Stripes October 3, 2009 Roughead: Newest Corps To Dominate Cyber Intel 44,000 jobs to be reorganized, 1,000 more to be added t...

Philadelphia Inquirer October 3, 2009 Pg. 1 Destroyer To Be Named For Aegis System Founder Arrives By Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer Along the way, as it glided by the Delaware Memorial, Commodore Barry, and Walt Whitman Bridges, it drew stares from people in sail and motor boats. Some wave...

Newport News Daily Press October 3, 2009 The Debate Is On: Do Submarines Have Room For Women? By Hugh Lessig NEWPORT NEWS--Earlier this week, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus was in town and confirmed his desire to end the ban on women serving aboard submarines. "All other ships have women sailors on ...

London Times October 3, 2009 Nato Commander Warns Of Conflict With Russia In Arctic Circle By Tom Coghlan, Defence Correspondent Competition for resources in the Arctic Circle could provoke conflict between Russia and Nato, a newly appointed commander at the alliance warned yesterday. Russia has re...

Also from "The History of US Electronic Warfare, Volume 1" by Alfred Price - the Allied reaction. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF US RADIO COUNTERMEASURES IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS Note: This Appendix is extracted from the post-war report “American Radar Countermeasures VS. Japanese Flak &...

This is from "The History of US Electronic Warfare, Volume 1" by Alfred Price THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADAR IN JAPAN, TO THE END OF WORLD WAR II Sources: US official report ‘A Short Survey of Japanese Radar” by the Operations Analysis Section and the Air Technical Intelligence Group of the Far ...

Also, http://www.vectorsite.net/ttwiz_07.html#m7 [7.7] ORIGINS OF JAPANESE RADAR TECHNOLOGY * While the British were coming to grips with German radar, the Japanese were developing their own radar systems completely out of sight of Allied intelligence. The main reason the Japanese effort remained un...

Sir, http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/rep/NTM/NTM.html lists these reports written by the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan; Electronic Reports: E-01 Japanese Submarine and Shipborne Radar. E-02 Japanese Airborne Radar. E-03 Japanese Land-Based Radar. E-04 Japanese Centimeter Wave Technique. E-...

Financial Times October 2, 2009 Poor Sino-US Links Are A Risk, Says Admiral By Tom Mitchell and Demetri Sevastopulo The senior US military -commander for the Pacific yesterday warned that persistent poor communications between the Chinese and US militaries increased the risk that occasional frictio...

Moscow Times October 2, 2009 France Confirms Warship Talks By Reuters French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Thursday that Russia might buy a French assault ship, a move that would be greeted with unease by Georgia and the United States. The comments by Kouchner are the first indication that...