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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, CO (MARKET WIRE) The North American Aerospace Defense Command is again getting ready to track Santa! On Dec. 1, the NORAD Tracks Santa (NTS) Web site, www.noradsanta.org, will go live and feature fun holiday games and activities that will change daily. On Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, NORAD will begin tracking Santa Claus' journey via live video feeds that begin at the following times:

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (MARKET WIRE) Metal Storm Limited (ASX: MST) (PINKSHEETS: MTSXY).

Cutter Aviation Technical Services, of Phoenix, was awarded a FAA supplemental type certificate...

navAero added a new central processing unit (CPU) to its t-Bag C22 electronic flight bag (EFB). The company said the Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5 GHZ processor adds expanded...

Duluth, Minn.-based Cirrus design is planning to furlough around 500 production workers for about 30 days, in a move the company says will strengthen its...

Airborne Laser is viewed as vulnerable to possible defense cuts under president-elect Barack Obama.

Boeing's second-largest union voted to approve the company's four-year contract offer, avoiding a second damaging strike at the plane maker's Seattle-area plants

British anti-corruption investigators have won access to Swiss bank files in an expanding probe into alleged bribery by BAE systems in European arms deals

The main driver when the programme was first conceived was to manage what no one had ever managed to do before, to build a highly capable fighter at a relatively low price

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) FTG (TSX: FTG) announced today that it has received a follow on award for printed circuit boards for a ground based mobile radar system. The award is valued at approximately $725,000 USD for FTG and is deliverable over a 6 month period. The circuit boards will be primarily built at FTG Circuits - Chatsworth although FTG Circuits - Toronto has also been qualified to build this product. These RF circuits utilize the technology acquired from Filtran Microcircuits at the beginning of the year.