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MEADS Life Cycle Costs Significantly Lower Than Fielded Systems Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 28, 2010 The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has presented a required life cycle cost estimate to the three partner nations that proves the MEADS system design will significantly reduce the cost of ownership compared to air and missile defense systems that are currently fielded. MEADS will especially reduce operation and support (O and S) costs. Ordinarily, over two-thirds of the total cost of ownership is spent in this area, but MEADS O and S costs are about half. Savings result from fe ... read more |
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Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms Tokyo (AFP) Sept 24, 2010 Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age. Under the "future school" project, 10 elementary schools will give all their under-12 pupils tablet PCs and fit their classrooms with interactive electronic blackboards starting as early as next month. The networke ... more ADI Advances US Legislative Campaign Against Planned NASA Primate Experiments Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2010 Animal Defenders International (ADI), the leading animal welfare organization that works globally for the protection of animals, launched a major U.S. educational and legislative campaign to secure public and government support to prevent NASA from proceeding with irradiating squirrel monkeys to study adverse effects of space radiation. The centerpiece of the legislative campaign is a comp ... more Dancing Robot Swan Triggers Emotions Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Sep 24, 2010 The Dying Swan is sometimes moving smoothly and gently, sometimes in a dramatic and fiery manner, as Tchaikovsky's majestic music from the ballet Swan Lake is playing. Yet this is no ordinary ballet dancer, but a robot in the form of a swan, created at Malardalen University and choreographed by professional dancer Asa Unander-Scharin. The swan robot's just over four-minute-long dance has s ... more |
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Northrop Grumman And Boeing Partner For Missile Defense Simulation Architecture Contract Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 29, 2010 Northrop Grumman and Boeing has announced a strategic partnership to pursue the competitive contract for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF) that will integrate the MDA's modeling and simulation architectures. "The MDA has an essential need to more efficiently validate Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) performance through the increased use of modeling and simulation," said Karen Williams, vice president of Air and Missile Defense Systems for Northrop Gr ... read more |
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