Rapid Fire 2010-11-09: Space Surveillance
- Outer space down under: US, Australia sign accord expanding space surveillance cooperation, which includes joint tracking of space junk, as well as cooperation on the US Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite programs.
- You say you want a revolution: DARPA awards [PDF] 13 META contracts designed to revolutionize defense manufacturing under the Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program.
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