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 -likely to mount a protest of the award in September 2015

Oshkosh Corporation of Oshkosh Wisconsin, historically a minor player in the U. S. Defense Procurement Industry, gained the $6.75 billion contract to build 16,901 Humvees.  “All told, the Army-led program will provide 49,100 vehicles for the Army and

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to mobilize within US Cities.

U.S. Department of Defense has spent millions of budget dollars on the classified “Operation Jade Helm 15.”  The speculation from civil liberty groups is that the Operation known as Jade Helm is designed to nullify the second amendment rights of gun-owners across the U.S.

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As the President of the United States cuts defense cost by shrinking personnel in the U.S. military branches and advances a political correctness (PC) policy within the military ranks, funds saved on the U.S. basses are being reinvested in building military bases in the former Warsaw Pact Countries and in NATO.  The U.S. Congress quietly passed the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI) and President Barak Hussein Obama signed the legislation. 

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According to the military press, “Pentagon and Air Force officials Friday warned lawmakers that a congressional push to limit the use of a Russian-made rocket engine, and the development of a U.S.-made alternative, is likely to extend beyond the 2019 deadline. It might eventually push the United Launch Alliance out of national security space missions altogether.”

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After senior U.S. Military leaders and U.S. secretaries (Gen Philip M. Breedlove, General (Marine) Joe Dunford, General Mark Milley, General Ray Odinerno, General Paul Selva, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Senator John McCain), visited Kiev this year or discussed Ukraine in Senate Hearings chaired by Senator John McCain, new military equipment is flowing into the Ukraine Military.

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but appears already in development by an Australian engineer©

The U.S. Military announced that a British firm (Malloy Aeronautics) a U.S. Defense contractor was working with the U.S. Army Research Lab in Maryland to test a prototype that could transform the way a War Fighter travels on difficult terrain. It will operate with a motorcycle engine and small rotors and soar up to 9,000 to 10,000 feet. The U.S. Defense company working on this “new project” is Survice Engineering of Maryland. A prototype was shown at the Paris Air Show in June 2015. The hoverbike will only include one warrior and carry about 400 to 800 pounds of ammunition and other military equipment. The U.S. team is estimating full production and procurement by 2018 or 2020.

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The joint surveillance and target attack radar system (JSTARS) was “a joint development project of the US Air Force and Army which provides an airborne, stand-off range, surveillance and target acquisition radar and command and control center. JSTARS (was to provide) ground situation information through

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According to the U.S. NASA, its “commercial partner SpaceX Falcon 9 was targeted to lift off on Sunday, June 28, for the launch of its seventh cargo delivery to the International Space Station under the agency’s Commercial Resupply Services Contract. The space launch was on Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Dragon spacecraft was filled with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and payloads, including

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According to the U.S. Air Force “the launch of the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft will be launched aboard a Delta IV launch vehicle on July 22 from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

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Airbus Defense and Space has been selected by OneWeb’s founder, Greg Wyler, as its industrial partner for the design and manufacturing of its fleet of microsatellites.Capital Alpha Partners, an insider Washington DC USA provider of strategic policy research to financial institutions, has announced that Airbus Defense and Space (Airbus Group) will manufacture 890 Ku-band Cubesats and be a co-owner of the OneWeb, space venture. Founded in 2007, Capital Alpha was originally part of Prudential Equity Group and closely connected to the U.S. Defense Industry.

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