DARPA awards robot aircraft deal
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Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $1 billion contract to an industry team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. to build three robotic reconnaissance aircraft and a computer operating system to help fly them for the Air ...
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Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC.N's   Space & Mission Systems business unit is being awarded a U.S.   Navy technical services contract worth up to $686.1 million to   support the U.S. Joint Forces Command's warfighting center, the   Defense Department said on Friday.
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Airwolf cyber-copters ready next year The march of the killer droids continues, with news that a US robot helicopter gunship has passed a significant milestone - engine testing.â¦
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Unscrewing the inscrutable DARPA*, the mad-as-a-bottle-of-crisps Pentagon warboffinry operation, has struck again - this time awarding a $13m contract to the University of Southern California to develop technology which will ensure that imported integrated circuits (ICs) used by the US military are trustworthy.â¦
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The US space agency awards military and space contractor Northrop Grumman with a $400m contract to co-design its Jimo space probe to Jupiter.
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The local arm of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $45-million contract with the US government to complete a prototype designed to protect commercial airplanes from ground-based shoulder-fired missiles.
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IRobot Corp. and Taser International Inc. unveil jointly developed prototype of robot for use by the military on the battlefield and by law enforcement agencies in dangerous situations.
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DARPA funds shortwave IR micro cameras, the better to see you with.
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Unmanned aircraft are to help scientists with research flights that are too dangerous or difficult for human pilots.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a  five-year, $3.9 billion contract to build a capsule-like U.S.  spacecraft called Orion to take humans back to the Moon and  beyond, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said  on Thursday.
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Boeing Co.  has been awarded  an 11-year, $2.02 billion contract for 242 wing sets for the  Air Force&#39;s A-10 fleet designed to support ground troops, the  Pentagon said on Friday.
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Darpa, the Pentagon's mad science division, got a $324 million boost in the Defense Department's new budget -- a 10 percent increase. Which means lots more cash for giant blimps, next-gen wireless networks, Mach 6 planes, shape-shifting drones, and improvised bomb-beaters.
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Nippy yet economical astro-peepers wanted The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon death-boffin hothouse where ideas don't have to be mad to get funding but it doesn't hurt either, has issued a new request for proposals.â¦
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NASA and U.S. Army Agree Rotorcraft Research Deal    Chris Kjelgaard Senior EditorAviation.com
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The US space agency gives the contract to build its new spacecraft Orion to Lockheed Martin.
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NASA has awarded a $330.6 million contract to the aerospace company Lockheed Martin to design and build a robot spaceship to carry replacement parts to the Hubble Space Telescope to keep it operating for another five to seven years.
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Google's co-founders will pay NASA $1.3 million for the right to land their jumbo jet at the space agency's airfield in Mountain View, Calif.