No net benefit: a tactical response to the MDA sale raises a strategic question.
On May 9, 2008, Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice delivered his final decision on the immediate future of the space and information systems division of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA): it is not for sale. Stating that a proposed sale "would not likely be of net benefit to Canada,"...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense.
Sep 24, 2007 Defense contracts worth $6 billion focus of Pentagon probe. Federal investigators are looking into allegations of criminal activity related to contracts for services and gear used by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The suspect contracts are worth a combined $6 billion. About half the...

Company Watch - Raytheon.
Sep 24, 2007 Raytheon has won a nearly $1 billion Navy contract for engineering and production work for the new DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer. The contract had been widely anticipated since 2005, when Raytheon beat out rival Lockheed Martin to become the prime contractor for the radar,...

Gunning for perfection? S-M surefire.
Byline: Best of . . . The Register-Guard The First Amendment is our first love, and we on Team Best of ... hope that it shows. But we also have an abiding respect for the Second Amendment as well. Of course, in order to keep...

China's missile test.
Byline: The Register-Guard China has come a long way since Mao Zedong groused that his country "couldn't even put a potato into space." A potato would have created considerably less consternation than the missile that China launched last month that successfully destroyed its target: one...

Pentagon poised to resume open-air testing of biological weapons.
The Pentagon has denied President Bush issued a directive for it to resume open-air testing of chemical and biological warfare(CBW) agents that were halted by President Richard Nixon in 1969. Yet, the Pentagon's stated preparations make it appear it is poised to do just that. Spokesperson Chris...

Talking warheads: Western leaders don't like to mention it, but being able to launch a nuclear attack is still central to their notion of 'security'. The real thing, however, requires a very different approach, argues Paul Rogers.
When Saddam Hussein's forces occupied Kuwait in August 1990, the US led a massive coalition to oust them. Having assembled 600,000 troops and 1, 000 planes from more than 30 countries, Operation Desert Storm started in January 1991 with a huge air assault that was confidently expected to force...

Lubricated with oil: Iran-China relations in a changing world.
China and Iran are emerging powers with increasingly significant political and economic relations that have regional and global dimensions. In this article, we set out to explore the historical roots, evolution and development of this relationship with a particular emphasis on the period since the Islamic revolution of 1979....

Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth.
RADICAL SIMPLICITY: SMALL FOOTPRINTS ON A FINITE EARTH JIM MERKEL NEW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS, 2003 $17.95, 288 pages What do St. Francis of Assisi, Zen master Ling Chi, and naturalist author Henry David Thoreau have in common with a former military weapons engineer? The answer can be found...

Mashelkar calls for policy on science.
PUNE: Noted scientist Raghunath A. Mashelkar has called for a national policy, which will combine science and technology with innovation. This is because innovation and creativity are the main considerations in research and development in the 21st century, which is likely to see a shift towards 'technological-globalism'...