DoD Sides With GAO Determination Of Flawed Process
ANN REALTIME REPORTING 07.09.08 1415 EDT: Here
we go again. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Wednesday the
US Air Force will once again reopen bidding on a stalled
multibillion-dollar contract to replace its aging fleet of KC-135
aerial tankers with modern aircraft.
Despite overwhelming public opposition to a plan to build a
missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, on Tuesday the
governments of the United States and the Czech Republic signed an
initial agreement to allow such a shield to be placed in the former
Soviet state.
The Dassault Aviation AVE-D drone completed its first fully
autonomous demonstration flight on June 30 near Toul, France. The
flight, watched by representatives of France's Delegation Generale
pour l'Armement (DGA) armaments procurement agency, comprised a
completely automated sequence: roll from parking spot, runway
alignment, takeoff, in-flight maneuvers, landing, braking and
rolling back to the parking apron.
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