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Budgeters are expected to recommend a force of 250-275, more than 100 less than the service's current requirement of 381.

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Universal Detection technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT) (FRANKFURT: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, is pleased to announce a 6,000% increase in revenues for the three months ending on September 30, 2008 as compares with the same three month period in 2007. Revenues for the quarter increased to $45,000 from $600 for the same period the previous year

European safety regulators have drawn up the first airworthiness directive relating to the Airbus A380, mandating checks for cracking of vanes...

Bombardier has tabled a new schedule for future Q400 deliveries to Horizon Air, which is seeking to defer and retime delivery of the 14 remaining 76-seat...

Italian aircraft maker Piaggio Aero has signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to establish a regional maintenance...

A Grumman Goose G21A float plane crashed on Thormanby Island, British Columbia, early on Nov. 16 killing seven men. Authorities were at the site the next day looking for the seven bodies. There was one survivor who had stumbled, badly burned and disoriented, down the side of mountain...

British Airways signed a multi-million dollar deal to install Thales' TopSeries in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on its new...

Goodrich Corp., Charlotte, N.C., received a contract from the Naval Research Laboratory to provide CA-247 wide-area airborne persistent surveillance sensors and associated data items for U.S...

Dassault's proposal to buy Alcatel-Lucent's minority stake in Thales, the French aerospace electronics group, looks like a good deal

Paris appears to have been decisive in a deal that represents a strong defence comeback for maker of Rafale combat aircraft and that marks a setback for EADS's ambitions