NASA's New Mars Orbiter Bears Down on Red Planet
Posted on: Wed Mar 8th, 2006 | voanews.com

The newest American mission to Mars is hurtling toward the red planet, due Friday to examine it in the sharpest detail yet. It will be the largest spacecraft to circle the planet, with big capabilities to match.

Space Weapons Could Emerge from Pentagon Budget
Posted on: Wed Mar 8th, 2006 | cdi.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Pentagon's Fiscal Year 2007 (FY07) budget request funds nearly a billion dollars in programs that could provide dual-use space weapons capabilities according to a new joint-analysis by the World Security Institute’s Center for Defense Information (CDI) and the Henry L. Stims...

France advises bringing UAVs into mainstream defence budgets
Posted on: Wed Mar 8th, 2006 | flightglobal.com

The French government has recommended the formal inclusion of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) funding in future defence budgets, adding that the country could terminate its state-funded European medium-altitude long-endurance (EuroMale) project in favour of the Dassault Aviation-led Neuron unmanned co...

EU keen on defence research fund
Posted on: Wed Mar 8th, 2006 | news.bbc.co.uk

EU defence ministers have said they are keen to see more work done on a new fund for military research in Europe.

Fate of F-111s to be decided soon
Posted on: Wed Mar 8th, 2006 | smh.com.au

Labor warned of a looming gap in air cover between the planned retirement of F-111 fighter-bombers and delivery of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).

European JSF partners meet in Holland
Posted on: Wed Mar 8th, 2006 | mindef.nl

Yesterday, European partners participating in the Joint Strike Fighter program met in The Netherlands, to discuss the cooperation between the countries involved.

Rand study puts tanker recap costs at $200B over 50 years
Posted on: Wed Mar 8th, 2006 | aimpoints.hq.af.mil

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A long-awaited Rand Corp. study on U.S. military tanker options says the Defense Department faces about $200 billion in costs to recapitalize its aging tanker fleet over the next half century.