National Lab Seeks Partner to Commercialize Self-Guided BulletFebruary 02, 2012Sandia National Laboratories is seeking a partnership with a private company to commercialize a new guided bullet that its engineers have invented, according to the U.S. government lab, which is managed by Lockheed Martin... More Winners and Losers from Expected Pentagon CutsFebruary 02, 2012Defense Secretary Leon Panetta plans to cut $259 billion in the next five years from the defense budget, with the overall goal to cut $487 billion over the next decade, The Washington Post reported. The spending cuts will impact nearly every player across the defense and aerospace industries... More Video Game Maker in Tussle with Defense Contractor over Aircraft ImagesJanuary 27, 2012Electronic Arts, the video action game maker, is in a pitched battle with a defense contractor over the use of images of real weapons systems in its games, according to an article on Star-Telegram.com. Electronic Arts, which makes such games as Battlefield 3, filed suit against Textron and its Bell helicopter subsidiary... More TSA Memo: Hackers Tap Railway NetworksJanuary 27, 2012The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) believes that hackers attacked a Northwest railway company's computer network and disrupted rail signals for 2 days in December. Over the next few days, the TSA went into protective mode to try to stop the cyber attack in its tracks, according to an article in NextGov.com... More 
Ford Competing for Blast-proof Vehicle ContractsJanuary 20, 2012This year's defense spending bill includes language to push the military to integrate “off-the-shelf technology demonstrated by industry” to build more blast-resistant military trucks... More A Search for More Effective Biofuels for Commercial AirplanesJanuary 20, 2012Lufthansa has flown more than 800 flights on an Airbus A321 between Hamburg and Frankfurt using a special biofuel mix in one of the two engines to see if it can tap a more cost-effective biofuel blend, according The New York Times... More Latest Aerospace & Defense News
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