Americas
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Dec- 2019 -13 December
US SOCOM awards Lightforce USA $54 million contract for P-VPS rifle scopes
US Defense Department awarded Lightforce USA, Inc., a $53,735,930 contract for Precision-Variable Power Scopes (P-VPS) for Special Operations
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10 December
Chile air force C-130 transport plane disappears en route to Antarctica
A Chilean military plane with 38 people aboard has gone missing after taking off for a base in Antarctica and is presumed to have crashed
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6 December
Shooter who killed 3 at US Navy base identified as Saudi air force student
A Saudi air force trainee shot three people dead at a U.S. naval base in Florida on Friday; the Saudi king offered condolences to victims
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5 December
Raytheon awarded missile systems maintenance contract modification for US and Spain
The Pentagon awarded Raytheon Missile Systems a $28,881,512 contract modification to maintain missiles of the US Navy and Spanish government
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5 December
L3 Technologies awarded $37.5 million contract for US Special Operations aiming lasers
The US awarded a $37.5 million contract to L3 Technologies to deliver precision aiming lasers (PAL) for Special Operations Command
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Nov- 2019 -25 November
Trump fires US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer over SEAL misconduct case
The US Navy secretary criticized Donald Trump after being sacked in a dispute over a SEAL commando whose demotion for misconduct was reversed
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15 November
Esper says $10bn Pentagon JEDI contract awarded fairly after Amazon claims ‘bias’
The U.S. Defense Secretary said a $10 billion cloud computing contract was awarded to Microsoft fairly after Amazon alleged "bias" in the process
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7 November
Boeing awarded $22 million Laser Small Diameter Bomb contract
Boeing awarded a $22 million US Special Operations contract for Laser Small Diameter Bomb all up rounds and warhead shipping containers
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7 November
Accused of airstrike civilian casualty cover-up, Colombia’s defense minister Botero resigns
Colombia's defense minister Guillermo Botero resigned after facing accusations of trying to cover up the deaths of children in an airstrike on a drug trafficking gang
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Oct- 2019 -31 October
The relevance of ground-based midcourse missile defense
Ground-based Midcourse Defense is a critical element of US national defense against ballistic missiles, David Daly argues
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