Sentences with phrase «u.s. military technology»

Lawmakers have urged targeted financial sanctions against Pakistani intelligence officials linked to militants, and for Pakistan to lose its «non-NATO ally» status that offers preferential access to U.S. military technology.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The U.S. Department of Defense has already stopped selling mobile phones and modems made by the Chinese technology companies Huawei and ZTE in stores on its military bases, citing potential security risks.

U.S. officials worry is that cutting - edge technologies developed in the United States could be used by China to bolster its military capabilities and perhaps even push it ahead in strategic industries.

Defense contractors have traditionally looked at themselves as the innovation for the U.S. military, but looking to commercial technology start - ups has been an increasingly growing activity for them.

President Donald Trump blocked a Chinese - backed private equity firm from buying a U.S. chipmaker on Wednesday, sending a clear signal to Beijing that Washington will oppose deals that involve technologies with potential military applications.

In his new bestseller, The Next Decade, Friedman argues that capital shortages, the impending down cycle in U.S. military spending and an aging population that drains public coffers mean the arrival of the next wave of «truly transformative» technologies will be delayed.

The tailors collaborated with an American military contractor to get their hands on the same technology used by the U.S. Special Forces in Iraq.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

Before Uber's recruiting, NREC had more than 100 engineers and scientists developing technology for companies and the U.S. military.

When Tokyo sought to purchase a fleet of F - 22s a decade ago, U.S. lawmakers barred the Japanese government from doing so due to concerns about sending information on sensitive military technology abroad.

Concerns about Chinese inroads into advanced technology come as the U.S. military looks to incorporate elements of artificial intelligence and machine learning into its drone program.

It depends upon the long - range capabilities of the U.S. Navy and Air Force to overcome the mines, submarines, anti-ship missiles and other advanced technology designed to keep the U.S. military out of «exclusion zones» established by potentially hostile powers.

Significant advances emerging from neuroscience and computer technology have long been a goal of the U.S. military.

Significant advances emerging from neuroscience and computer technology have long been a goal of the U.S. military in its quest to find better ways to use brain - related technology to boost national security, and more recently, address debilitative injuries resulting from improvised explosive devices and posttraumatic stress disorder, according to two experts on neuroscience and ethics.

• DEFENSE Unmanned aircraft have transformed the way the U.S. wages war, but its military will not have a monopoly on this technology for long.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

MUSICA is part of a new program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. military responsible for developing new technologies.

Until recently, U.S. labs and companies were prohibited from exchanging technologies with ISRO, in an attempt to limit their use for military purposes.

Surveillance is the X-37B's most likely task, and the plane's trajectory — confirmed when amateur astronomers spotted it in a moderately inclined, 40 - degree orbit in May — supports that view.Those sightings «dismissed the idea that the U.S. military was developing technology to put something into orbit undetected,» Weeden notes.

The National Science Foundation and the U.S. military are funding the research after recognizing that increased information flow — blogs, social networking sites, media - sharing technology — along with an accelerated proliferation of mobile technology is changing the way communication and possibly misinformation campaigns are conducted.

These technologies allowed the U.S. military to sweep aside initial opposition in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military activities in the U.S.S.R. can be unilaterally monitored by the U.S. with the aid of a wide spectrum of remote - sensing technologies, including high - resolution satellite photography

He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, became an Air Force pilot who flew 66 combat missions in Korea and earned a Ph.D. in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There is an organization called the Joint IED Defeat Organization in the Pentagon, in the U.S. Military, which oversees research into counter IED and in particular technology and technology - related research into counter IED and they are spending several billion dollars a year, at this point; and there is...

Jim Thomas of the Ottawa - based ETC Group said the U.S. military's substantial funding of gene drive research «raises alarming question about this entire field,» and he called the technology «powerful and dangerous,» warning that it «could have disastrous impacts on peace, food security, and the environment.»

They worked in harsh conditions alongside a local warlord and his men, an uneasy alliance at best, and, even with all the technology and money of the U.S. military, executed the successful mission largely on horseback.

In the story, a linguist is invited by the U.S. military to try and interpret the non-linear language of aliens who have recently made contact, in the hopes of unlocking the secrets of their technology.

This installment finds him resisting pressure from the government, the press and the public to share the secrets to his state - of - the - art armor with the U.S. military out of fear that the technology might fall into the wrong hands.

The Center for Technology in Education at Johns Hopkins University is creating the simulated natural environment based on training tools developed for the U.S. military.

For example, adaptive learning technology is used by NASA for simulation training, safety models, and has been used in various branches of the U.S. military, including the Army Learning Concept 2015, that trains and educates soldiers for asymmetric warfare.

In advance of today's «Expanding Education Opportunity through School Choice» hearing, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts: from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

The ZH2 also represents an opportunity to demonstrate this technology under the mission requirements of the U.S. military, among the world's most demanding off - road operators.

The «Cards» series is a grid compilation of military trading cards, spanning seven decades and illustrating a history of military propaganda, technology advancement, and fluctuations in popular support of war in the U.S..

no link, but i have read that the u.s. military, with a 25 - year contract to use ctl, is the prime mover of this technology.

MICROGRIDS: An Indiana company known for installing microgrids for the U.S. military sees an opportunity in mass producing the technology for private companies.

Stealth technology was initially developed by the U.S. military starting in the late 1950s to prevent radar tracking of spy planes and is currently used in the Northrop Grumman B - 2 Spirit «Stealth Bomber».

President Reagan made enormous investments in military technology to maintain U.S. competitiveness.

In the meantime, the U.S. Defense Department is also reviewing security protocols so that military personnel can limit behavior that exposes a base to inadvertent, technology - based threats and security breaches.

Provided technical guidance for development and transitioning of CBRNE technologies to U.S. civilian and military markets, including laser ion mobility spectrometry, biodetection, and neutronics.

Planned, organized and executed the first ever U.S. Innovation Forum in Washington D.C. that showcased 75 EADS technologies via 100 technology briefings to 40 U.S. government customers representing 21 different offices, including: Department of Energy (DOE), DARPA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and all branches of the U.S. Military.

Drone technology has become a multi-billion-dollar business, as consumer uses multiply and the U.S. military begins phasing out manned vehicle operations in favor of unmanned flights, leading real estate investors and developers to pay attention...