Out of the Blue:

Space Drones, Black Programs, the Unveiling of U.S. Military Offensives in Weather as a Weapon, and the Coming Permanent State of Emergency.

keith harmon snow

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Orbital Sciences Corporation

• 21700 Atlantic Boulevard, Dulles, VA 20166

Since its founding in 1982, Orbital has become a world-recognized leader in conceiving and developing innovative space technologies and pioneering business approaches, leading to the design and production of low-cost small space systems. The Company is structured into five autonomous operating groups that focus on specific market areas and technology capabilities, but that also often work together on projetcs that span two or more of the groups. Orbital has several space-based systems and space-related applications subsidiaries. The organization also features a small corporate staff.

The Advanced Systems Group (ASG) oversees various projects falling outside the scope of OSC's standard launch vehicles and satellite services. These include certain small satellite projects and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's). The ASG is located at OSC's headquarters in Dulles, Virginia. From here, members of the ASG have access to management and facilities as needed for project completion.

Orbital's Communications and Information Systems Group (CISG) oversees three subsidiary companies: Magellan Corporation, Orbital Communications Corporation (ORBCOMM), and Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE). ORBIMAGE is dedicated to providing low cost, state-of-the-art remote sensing products and services to customers around the world, including very high spatial resolution imagery with camera tasking availability through OrbView.

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RAND Lends Support to Study of Cutting-Edge Army Aircraft
RAND is providing support to the Army Science Board (ASB), a federal advisory committee that advises the Army leadership on scientific and technological issues, in the study of cutting-edge Army aircraft and aviation options to facilitate the Army's goal of transforming into a rapidly deployable, lighter and more effective combat force. Read more

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NUCLEAR PARANOIA from ww3 report april 2003   1. NORTH KOREAN NUKES: COURTESY OF DONALD RUMSFLED When asked to comment on a Newsweek story documenting Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's role as a board director of ABB--the Zurich-based energy company that sold two light-water nuclear reactors to North Korea in 2000--Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke responded: "There was no vote on this issue and Secretary Rumsfeld does not recall [the sale of the reactors] being brought before the board at any time." ABB has declined repeated requests to make board-meeting minutes available, but there is little doubt within ABB that its board members knew about the deal.   In fact, ABB CEO Goran Lindahl visited North Korea himself in November 1999 to announce ABB's "wide-ranging, long-term cooperation agreement" with the regime and announced the opening of an ABB office in Pyongyang. Newsweek notes that board meetings attended by Rumsfeld were held before and after Lindahl's visit to Pyongyang. (Newsweek Atlantic Edition, April 14)  

The ABB deal was part of the 1994 agreement in which North Korea was to be supplied with nuclear technology "less likely" to have weapons applications in exchange for officially abandoning its weapons program, which violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. North Korea announced it was withdrawing from the treaty earlier this year. In an April 10 press release, Greenpeace charges that North Korea used its weapons program as a "bargaining chip" to gain aid and nuclear technology--and that the US administration encourages such tactics by disregarding the UN and international law in Iraq and elsewhere. "If the US doesn't abide by the rules, other states certainly won't," warns Greenpeace.   (http://www.greenpeace.org/news/details?item_id=206540 )

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