Airline Anti-Missile System Too $$$-Study
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U.S. anti-missile technology is  still too costly to install on America's passenger airlines to  guard against Al Qaeda using shoulder-fired missiles to shoot  down the planes, according to a study on Tuesday.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. said Monday that its maritime systems and sensors unit received contracts worth $625 million to develop radar systems for an international air defense program that aims to replace the Patriot and Hawk missile systems.
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A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.
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The US government gives BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman $45m each to develop anti-missile systems to protect civilian aircraft.
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Israel's national airline is to fit aircraft with the world's first anti-missile system for passenger flights, reports say.
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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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A missile test costing more than $100 million has gone severely wrong in the United States long-running project for a so-called &quot;son of Star Wars&quot; missile defence system.
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The crash of a Russian jet in Ukraine last year that killed 170 people, including 45 children, might have been prevented by satellite weather software costing 1500 dollars (1200 euros), according to a study released Monday.
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Irish air freight forwarders are looking for creative ways to sidestep the advance manifest system (AMS) introduced to beef up security at US airports.
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If a terrorist fires a surface-to-air missile at a civilian airliner, should the plane be able to shoot back?
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The United States could deploy a system to protect an area ranging from Washington to Boston from sea-based cruise-missile attacks within 14 months at a cost of "several billion dollars," a top Lockheed Martin Corp. executive said on Monday.
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The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. Similar to a Pentagon program killed by Congress in 2003 over concerns about civil liberties, the new program could take effect as soon as next year....
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NEW YORK, August 26 (New Ratings) - The US government has reportedly selected Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC.NYS) and BAE Systems Plc (BA) to develop systems for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
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The cost of a program to build high-profile unmanned surveillance aircraft, known as Global Hawks, has increased by nearly $900 million since 2001, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.-Renae Merle
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A test of a missile defense system successfully intercepted a ballistic target, the U.S. military said on Saturday, a boost to development of an anti-missile shield program.
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WASHINGTON - The military is in the final stages of readying its national ballistic missile defense system, with officials predicting it will be activated before year's end. But several questions remain, including how well the experimental missile interceptors work...
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