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  1. A ground-based missile interceptor is lowered into its silo during an emplacement at the Missile Defense Complex at Fort Greely, Alaska, in 2007. Sgt. Jack W. Carlson III/US Army

    Sites for potential East Coast missile defense plan selected

    The Missile Defense Agency is looking at five potential locations to house a controversial third domestic ground-based interceptor site, which would guard the continental United States against ballistic missile attack.

    • Sep. 12, 2013
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    Airmen at Osan Air Base, South Korea, build bombs. The Air Force Research Lab is examining the possibility of modular weapons to save money. Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson/Air Force

    AF eyes flexible weapons to lower costs, increase capability

    The Air Force has a vast inventory of weapon systems developed and purchased through dozens of programs. Maintaining that disparate arsenal is costly and, in a time of budget cuts, increasingly important.

    • Sep. 11, 2013
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    Automation may be key to solving data overload

    For the past decade, technological improvements have made the dream of the unblinking eye a near reality. Cameras are cheaper to make and install and provide higher-quality images.

    • Sep. 11, 2013
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    A modenized GPS IIR-M satellite was recently declared operational by the Air Force after being lofted into orbit last month. Lockheed Martin

    GAO: Air Force needs better analysis of new GPS sats

    The Air Force should come up with better cost estimates and options for new GPS Satellites, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

    • Sep. 11, 2013
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    Members of the U.N. investigation team take samples Aug. 28 from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be one of the chemical rockets, according to activists in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. United media office of Arbeen / via AP

    Securing Syria's arsenal is rife with challenges

    Russia's proposal to place Syria's chemical weapons stockpile under international control for dismantling would involve a lengthy and complicated operation made more difficult by a deep lack of trust — not to mention the lack of an inventory.

    • Sep. 10, 2013
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    Air Force One in its current model — a modified Boeing 747-200 — has carried presidents since 1990. Now. the Defense Department is surveying contractors about their ability to provide a new model. Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images

    DoD begins search for Air Force One replacement

    The Defense Department is beginning the process to replace Air Force One.

    • Sep. 9, 2013
  2. The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) successfully launches a Tomahawk missile during weapons testing in 2010. MC1 Carmichael Yepez / Navy

    Strike to degrade Syrian forces would still be limited

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's choice of the term 'degrade' to describe an attack on Syria has been interpreted by Pentagon planners as guidance for a limited strike, according to senior military officials.

    • Sep. 8, 2013
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    Report: NSA can access most smartphone data

    The U.S. National Security Agency is able to crack protective measures on iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices, giving it access to users' data on all major smartphones, according to a report Sunday in German news weekly Der Spiegel.

    • Sep. 8, 2013
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    Md. military med school ends use of animals

    A U.S. military medical school in Bethesda says it no longer uses live animals in its training programs, starting with this school year.

    • Sep. 6, 2013
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    Report: U.S. military cracked most online encryption

    The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unraveling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data safe from prying eyes, according to pub

    • Sep. 5, 2013
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    The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer is aboard a Minotaur V rocket after a rollout at NASA's Wallops Island test flight facility in Wallops Island, Va., on Sept. 5. Patrick Black / NASA via AP

    NASA aims for moon again to probe thin atmosphere

    NASA is headed back to the moon, this time to explore its thin atmosphere and rough dust.

    • Sep. 5, 2013
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    The Boeing KC-46 tanker, identified as a priority by Air Force officials, has completed its critical design review. Boeing

    USAF signs off on KC-46 tanker review

    The Air Force has signed off on the final critical design review (CDR) for its next generation tanker, formally establishing the design of a program identified by top Air Force officials as a key priority.

    • Sep. 5, 2013
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    Vt. F-35 opponents ask city to block planes

    Opponents of a proposal that could base F-35 fighter planes at Vermont's Burlington International Airport want city officials to refuse to allow the plane to be based there.

    • Sep. 5, 2013
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    Tim Blades, director of operations for the Chemical Biological Application and Risk Reduction Business Unit, talks at a June 27 demonstration of the Field Deployable Hydrolysis System at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Army

    Pentagon developing mobile units to neutralize chemical weapons materials

    Should the Pentagon need to destroy stockpiles of chemical weapons, it can do so with new mobile systems that can neutralize and destroy the materials, according to defense officials.

    • Sep. 4, 2013
  3. President Obama gestures during a joint news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Sept. 4 in Stockholm, Sweden. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

    Obama reassures Europeans over U.S. surveillance

    President Obama sought Wednesday to reassure Europeans outraged over U.S. surveillance programs that his government isn't sifting through their emails or eavesdropping on their telephone calls.

    • Sep. 4, 2013
  4. A protester holds a placard depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally against a possible attack on Syria on Sept.1 in Hatay. BULENT KILIC / AFP via Getty Images

    Pro-Syrian group hacks U.S. Marine Corps website

    Pro-Syrian government hackers defaced a Marine Corps recruitment website Monday, posting a letter on Marines.com arguing that the Syrian government is 'fighting a vile common enemy.'

    • Sep. 2, 2013
  5. U.S.-Brazil tensions rise after new spy report

    The Brazilian government called in the U.S. ambassador Monday to provide explanations about new revelations that the National Security Agency's spy program directly targeted the South American giant's leader.

    • Sep. 2, 2013
  6. Suspected U.S. drone kills 3 militants in Pakistan

    A pair of missiles launched by a suspected U.S. drone killed at least three foreign militants in an abandoned seminary near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan on Saturday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

    • Aug. 31, 2013
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    Satellites such as Lockheed's Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system are highly capable, but if the Air Force has its way, they would give way to smaller, more dispersed systems. Lockheed Martin

    AF: Pentagon must update space policy

    Air Force Space Command has released a new white paper laying out its argument for moving toward a new architecture for military space programs.

    • Aug. 30, 2013
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    A KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft refuels a B-2 Spirit aircraft on Aug. 29. Airman 1st Class Maurice A. Hodges / Air Force

    Exotic weapons aim to destroy chemical weapons

    The Pentagon has spent more than a decade trying to develop weapons to neutralize chemical weapons, the threat that has the United States poised to launch a missile strike on Syria, according to military planning documents and officials.

    • Aug. 29, 2013
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    Report: U.S. spying is costly but often ineffective

    The U.S. government will spend $52 billion on intelligence programs this year but often fails to provide the president with information needed to protect national security, according to a report in the Washington Post.

    • Aug. 29, 2013
  7. An image grab taken from a video shows an opposition fighter holding a rocket propelled grenade as his fellow comrades take cover from an attack by regime forces on Aug. 26. The U.S. is in the final stages of preparation for missile strikes on Syria and many defense officials expect an operation will involve Navy ships launching dozens of Tomahawk missiles at Syrian targets. AFP via Getty Images

    Syria strikes unlikely to change long-term DoD plans, experts say

    The U.S. military is in the final stages of preparation for missile strikes on Syria, but experts say any military operations there will likely be short-lived and have minimal impact on the Pentagon's plans for the future.

    • Aug. 28, 2013
  8. A Delta 4-Heavy rocket, carrying a spy satellite for the U.S. government, is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Aug. 28. The rocket carried a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees the nation's constellation of intelligence-gathering satellites. Daniel Dreifuss / The Santa Maria (Calif.) Times v

    Photo gallery: Rocket carrying spy satellite launches from Vandenberg

    A massive rocket carrying a spy satellite for the U.S. government launched from the central California coast Wednesday.

    • Aug. 28, 2013
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    The Air Force adjusted the pressure inside cabins of U-2s to 15,000 feet after a study showed the aircrafts' pilots were more prone to brain lesions. 1st Lt. Victoria Porto / Air Force

    Air Force re-pressurizes U-2 cabin to prevent brain lesions in pilots

    The Air Force has re-pressurized the U-2 spy plane's cabin after a study revealed U-2 pilots had brain lesions at a higher than average rate, officials said.

    • Aug. 28, 2013

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