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SP's MAI - Issue No. 21 | November 01-15, 2013

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Time to leapfrog technology
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  What India needs to learn from China is optimising technology reconfiguration wherein available technology is integrated in multitude of combinations to attain selfreliance

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  AEROSPACE
  IAF focuses on maintenence and training

  The second biannual Air Force Commanders’ conference 2013 was held at Air Headquarters, Vayu Bhawan, New Delhi. The four-day conference was inaugurated by Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne, COSC...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  New technique to detect fingerprints

  Researchers have developed an innovative product that uses fluorescence to detect fingerprints. This new product, Lumicyano, will make it possible to highlight fingerprints directly, more rapidly, and at a lower cost...

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  CORPORATE
  Northrop Grumman's F-35 assembly line bags 'Assembly Plant of the Year' award

  Northrop Grumman Corporation’s F-35 integrated assembly line (IAL) was named “Assembly Plant of the Year”...

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  Net-centric warfare
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  For transformation into an NCW capable force, we need a NCW doctrine as the start point. Concepts of individual services should flow...

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  AEROSPACE
  Northrop wins $414 million for J-STARS upgrade

  Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, was awarded a $41,45,00,000 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-firm...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Man hops on to German Chancellor's aircraft

  A 24-year-old man clutching a bag full of marijuana and ecstasy pills managed with relative ease to get on board an empty government jet used...

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  CORPORATE
  Kaman Aerosystems provides products for Textron AirLand Scorpion programme

  Kaman Aerosystems announced that its subsidiary, Kaman Composites – Wichita, Inc., provided a number of components...

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  C4I2SR
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  The ability to protect our information, systems, programmes, people and facilities in a risk management environment directly impacts...

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  AEROSPACE
  Airbus Military A400M development fleet makes 2,000th flight

  Airbus Military’s five-strong development fleet of A400M new generation airlifters has completed its 2,000th flight.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  MPs discuss Naxalite issue

  The Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament attached to the Ministry of Home Affairs met in New Delhi recently to discuss the menace of naxalites in the country.

• CORPORATE
  Saab combines US defence operations

  Global defence and security company Saab announced the establishment of Saab Defense and Security USA LLC. This represents the consolidation of several US-based Saab defence companies into a single US defence and homeland security provider.

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  Filling the capability void
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  The key to success will lie in effective command and control across the force.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Gray Eagle completes 20,000 automated take-offs and landings

  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), a leading...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Acoustic detection identifies IEDs

  A new acoustic detection system, consisting of a phased acoustic array that focuses an intense sonic beam at a suspected improvised explosive device, can determine the difference between those...

• CORPORATE
  Boeing marks 30 years of aerospace electronics fabrication in El Paso

  Boeing and the City of El Paso recently marked three decades of advanced electronics manufacturing for products ranging from spacecraft to fighter jets, bombers and missiles.

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  Communication for the BMS
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Government needs to examine allotment of a dedicated defence band from the spectrum to meet the bandwidth requirement of the Services...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Raytheon delivers 2,000th multi-spectral targeting system

  Raytheon achieved a historic first with the delivery of its 2,000th multi-spectral targeting system (MTS) from its factory in McKinney, Texas.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Hoodwinks security at Port Newark

  An emotionally disturbed man breached security recently at one of US’s busiest ports, boarded a ship and was found in the captain’s cabin.

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  Geographic information system
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  While generally this data has been assumed to pertain to terrain features only, a true GIS ready map should logically cover the complete spectrum...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Northrop Grumman sponsors Australia UAV challenge competition

  Northrop Grumman Corporation is sponsoring the 2013 and 2014 UAV...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Student indicted in security breach

  A grand jury has indicted a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student in connection to a security breach a year ago.

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  MILITARY / SHOW REPORT / AUSA 2013
  US budget cuts impact defence programmes
  By R. Chandrakanth

  The US military has a dominating presence in the world.

• AEROSPACE
  Boeing begins assembling third KC-46A tanker aircraft

  Boeing is assembling a third KC-46A test aircraft for the US Air Force’s next-generation aerial refuelling tanker program at the company’s Everett factory, keeping the programme on schedule to complete production of four test aircraft by the third quarter of 2014.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Philippines airport guards face action

  The agency in charge of security at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport may face sanctions for lapses its guards committed during the fracas between showbiz couple Raymart Santiago...

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  MILITARY / CURTAIN-RAISER
  MSME Defexpo curtain-raiser
  By Sucheta Das Mohapatra

  The National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) is organising the third MSME Defexpo at Bengaluru from December 12-14, 2013...

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  MILITARY
  Raytheon Excalibur Ib completes qualification flight testing

  Raytheon Company fired 84 precision-guided Excalibur Ib all up rounds during qualification flight tests at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

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  MILITARY
  MBDA's Brimstone missile hits very fast targets

  In early October MBDA demonstrated significant progress on the Brimstone 2 development programme with a series of successful firings aimed at proving the performance of the latest guidance system upgrades...

• MILITARY
  IAF launches 3G WCDMA cellular network

  The Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched its 3G cellular network named Air Force Cellular (AFCEL), becoming first among the services to have commissioned its own captive 3G network.

• MILITARY
  IAI developing mine and IED detection system

  Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Ramta’s Division has completed the last phase of engineering testing and has begun building a technology demonstrator of a multisensor system called MIDS...