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Networking Opportunities
11/21 1130: NCMA Meeting - RFCU (Wynn Dr.) - Dr. Dorothy W. Huston
11/22 1800: SSV 4th Annual Irish Christmas & Whiskey Tasting - Jackson Center
12/03 1100: NDIA's Prime/Subcontractor Relationships: New Developments and Continuing
Issues - 6767 Old Madison Pike, Bldg. 7, Ste. 720
12/03 1530: National Space Club - Dan Dumbacher - Jackson Center
12/03 1730: Association of Proposal Management Pros. Meeting – Aerojet Rocketdyne
12/05 1600: CoC Holiday Open House – CoC
12/05 Quad-A Holiday Party
12/09 0730: MDA Small Business Advocacy Council (SBAC) “Breakfast with the Primes”
12/09 NAITA's Export Control Roundtable/Networking Event - The Ledges
12/10 1730: Team Redstone Tree Lighting - The Summit
12/12 0730: WID Breakfast - Marriot - LTG McQuistion
12/12 MSFC Collaboration Forum – S&RC
12/13 AUSA Army National Guard Birthday Breakfast
12/14 Rocket City Marathon
12/18 1200: MRC Christmas Party – Bldg. 3494A
12/19 0730: PMI NAC Breakfast - "What really goes on in Contracting"
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Local
States salivating for Boeing 777X feast
– Haven’t we seen this before?
Boeing CEO: 3 months for 777x location decision
LEAN Frog Business Solutions, Inc. Wins Top Madison CoC 2013 SB Awd
PPT Solutions Wins 2013 Small Business of the Year Award
Summit 7 Systems makes 2013 CRN Fast Growth 150 list for third straight year
Dynetics Technical Services Receives Marshall Space Flight Center SB Award
HSV/Madison County ranked No. 4 on think tank's top 25 U.S. high-tech hotspots list
Only one Alabama city on top 100 best places to live. Which is it?
Lockheed Martin Slashes 4,000 Jobs
MacAulay-Brown, Inc. Awarded $18.5 Million USAF C4ISR Contract
Wyle Named 2014 Military Friendly Employer
U.S. Space and Rocket Center board names new officers including new chairman –
Latest ‘where’s Joe’ siting
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Month at a Glance
Companies: Shift to Foreign Sales
International: Friends in need are shopping
China Temperament: ugly, brooding undercurrent
NASA Emphasis: more partnership, less leadership
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Space Exploration
Here’s the Latest Kepler Orrery Video:
One in Five Stars Has Planet in Habitable Zone – Drake Equation gets tweaked
Scientists confirm Voyager 1 probe is in interstellar space
Russian asteroid explosion data has scientists rewriting models
Space Agencies Of The World, Unite: The U.N.'s Asteroid Defense Plan
Astronauts Won't Go To Space Until At Least 2021, NASA Inspector – 8 yrs 4 8-balls
Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Surprising Amount Of Water On Mars
Mars Rover Comes Up Empty in Search for Methane
Radiation makes Mars mission unlikely
Incredible Technology: How to Launch Superfast Trips to Mars
More than 2,700 pay up for a chance to take a one-way trip to Mars
India leaps into interplanetary space with Mars mission
India Can Send a Rocket to Mars and Fight Poverty at the Same Time
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Space Biz
Dazzling Nighttime Rocket Launch Puts 29 Satellites In Orbit - 1119 – Orbital’s Minotaur
NASA puts out call for commercial space taxis
Zombie SATS: use it up, wear it out …DARPA Looking for 10 Retired Satellites To Raid for Parts in
On-orbit Salvaging Demo
Time is ripe for fire detection satellite
Turning Android Phones Into Satellites for $3500
Russia Mulls Ban of RD-180 Engine Exports
Russia Appoints New Space Chief
Russia offers Brazil new joint space projects
China sets course for lunar landing this year
China started late, but could zoom ahead to lead space race
Virgin Galactic needs a few space pilots, kite surfing optional?
NBC teams up with Virgin Galactic for 'Space Race' reality TV show
California vies with other states in commercial space race
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Business & Strategy
U.S. Defense Contractors Focus on Foreign Buyers
UK Considers Creating Foreign Military Sales Program.
Eurocopter to Go Commercial With Mississippi Plant
Advanced Optical Systems makes touchless fingerprint identification a reality for smart phones,
national defense
Deloitte hires FBI agent who oversaw probe into Sept 11 attack
Jo A. Decker Joins General Dynamics Information Technology
Dynetics Technical Services wins Marshall Space Flight Center's Small Business Prime Contractor
of the Year
CFD Research Corporation - 1st tenant in HudsonAlpha's new building along McMillian Park
Davidson Technologies in Huntsville breaks ground on $3.5 million expansion
ATK Looks for $1.86B External Funding
Deloitte named a global leader in cybersecurity consulting by Kennedy
Huntsville's CFDRC awarded DoD Small Business Innovative Research Awd
Georgia Tech Launches New Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
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Pictures of the Month
Mars Iguana / Six Second Toothbrush / China’s CV
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Aerospace
For NASA, the best of times and the worst of times
Cygnus: more insurance for NASA's growing lack of game
Space Station Traffic Jam Delays 1st Arrival of New Private Cygnus Spacecraft
Orbital Sciences' Spacecraft Returns to Earth as Blazing Ball of Trash
Happy birthday NASA ...take the day off
Government shutdown: NASA turns 55 – and turns out the lights
NASA confirms DC once hosted intelligent life
NASA defends decision to idle J-2X engine program, not a '$1.2 billion mistake'
ANALYSIS: NASA’S NEW ROLE AS PARTNER
Really Fast VASIMR Rockets Could Be The Key To Private Mars Travel
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Defense
'Average Looking Women': The Army's Secret Scheme To Sell Gender Neutral Infantry
Military personnel face cuts to pay, benefits
New Deal Could Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan for 10 More Years
Pentagon Faces $52 Billion in Sequester Cuts in January
Navy probe centers on 'Fat Leonard'
Pentagon spent $5 billion on weapons on the eve of the shutdown
Analyst: Historical Trends Suggest Budget Cuts Deeper Than Sequestration
Analyst: Pentagon Budget Could Drop To $415 Billion
Hagel: Cuts to Pay and Benefits Are Needed
APKWS Laser-Guided Rocket Tested On Apache
Tank-Bursting Hellfire, The Weapon Of Choice For Buildings that need Killin’
Zumwalt: The Navy's massive, high-tech destroyer …Capt. James Kirk at the helm
U.S. Army scrapping 4 chemical weapons incinerators
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Aviation
Russia 'offers Egypt MiG-29s in $2B arms deal'
US military sees growth in foreign sales of V-22 Osprey Fanning:
Air Force Having Trouble Keeping Pilots, and Pay Isn't the Problem
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works reveals a Mach 6 SR-72
DARPA Plans to Arm Drones With Missile-Blasting Lasers
The drone that may never have to land
Lockheed to Build Army Anti-UAV, Weapon Laser
Pentagon investigating Redstone Arsenal's Non-Standard Rotary Wing Aircraft Office over work on
Russian helicopters US lawmakers ask Holder to back probe.
Lockheed-Boeing Plan Joint Bid to Build Next US Bomber
Airbus sees global fleet doubling by 2032
Boeing CEO Expects Airbus to Surpass Boeing
Air Force Mourns Likely Passing of A-10 Warthog
New Boeing B-52 Upgrade to Increase Smart Weapons Capacity by Half
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International
Putin says he might run for president again in 2018
Turkey explores options for friends beyond U.S.
Awash in oil revenue, Iraq stays on U.S. dole for reconstruction ...
High stakes for Putin as his Olympic dream nears
China pressing for nuclear talks with North Korea
China Says Its Nukes Can 'Easily Destroy' US Cities
China Slams 'Dangerous Provocation' By Japan By Shadowing Sea Drill
We're #2: Americans Think China Is Taking Over
Saudis 'turn to Pakistan to train army for Syria war'
US carrier group to make "best speed" to typhoon-hit Philippines
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Missile Defense
Unprecedented Dual Intercept Success for MEADS at White Sands Missile Range
Raytheon Successfully Tests SM-6 Missile Interceptors
Lockheed Martin Conducts Third Successful Flight Test of New GMLRS Warhead
Aerojet Rocketdyne SM-3 Block IIA TDACS Completes Second Full System Hot Fire Testing
AIM-9X Block III to Become a BVR Missile
DARPA Tests JASSM-Based Stealthy Anti-Ship Missile
MEADS System to Identify Friend Or Foe Aircraft Certified by U.S. Air Traffic Control Office
U.S. names possible East Coast missile defense sites, but far from decision
DARPA Just Spent $26M… On Anti-Missile Laser Beam
Drone-killing laser could be the future of missile defense
Pentagon To Probe Problems With Raytheon’s Kill Vehicle
Russia unveils plans for new anti-missile system, 5th-generation fighter jet
Russia's Vladimir Putin orders missile defense shipment to Iran ...
US concerned about Turkey's choice of Chinese missile system
Lockheed Martin's Aegis BMD System Completes Highest Target Intercept Yet
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Cyber / Tech
Latest $M idea you missed out on: USB condoms
49% of the Links Cited in Supreme Court Decisions Are Broken… an Internet that is
always growing...
Report: 8 Out of 10 Users Infected With A Trojan
> Read this article - then decide if you should be backing up your files every week…
Brit hacker hits NASA, Def sites ... tweets it ...busted
The media discovers Silk Road
Snowden Convinced Colleagues to Give Him Their Passwords
3-D printed metallic gun could shoot $33B firearm industry in the foot
Spy court says NSA exceeded bounds, but judges approved all data requests anyway
A Single-Atom Light Switch
New technique prints ink-based electrical circuitry using a desktop printer
Synaptic transistor learns while it computes
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Strange Torque
FAA Finally Lifts Epically Dumb Ban on Mobile Device
Use on Planes
Woman plans to hand out letters to overweight trickor-treaters
Getting serious about the "any-direction" energy
converter
RIP Early Bird: 1948–2013
New tech could beam power from roadside stations to passing electric cars
Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds
To Compete, America Needs 6-Year High Schools
Astronaut Chris Hadfield: 'The Only Thing 'Gravity' Got Wrong Was The
Underwear‘ - you're basically wearing a "Halloween costume" of heaters and
coolers, have a "big pull-up diaper" on underneath, and your "hair looks like rat fur".
Rare New Microbe Found in Two Distant Clean Rooms
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All I know is what I read in the
papers…
– Will Rogers