WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- According to the Nov. 14 Financial Times, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking to a group of Russian and European business leaders before flying to Washington for a visit, said Russia could develop "neighborly and partnership-based relations with the U.S."
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Officer Robert J. Stevens made waves in the media recently by suggesting his company's F-22 fighter might serve as a substitute for nuclear weapons in deterring aggression.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- California-based JMAR Technologies has released test results from a study with the company's explosive threat detection technologies measuring water purity.
OSHKOSH, Wis., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department has awarded a follow-on contract to Oshkosh Corp. for the continued supply of tactical vehicle replacement parts.
MIAMI, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Public Health Service and U.S. Southern Command have agreed to a medical readiness and training partnership for operations in Latin America.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Russia is betting big on its aging but more potent than ever strategic bomber force well into the 21st century. A senior air commander has revealed that all three main long-range bombers in the Kremlin's arsenal would be extensively modernized and upgraded this year.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force has contracted Northrop Grumman Corp. for the company to support the radar modernization program for the B-2 stealth bomber.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez closed out the old year in typical style -- by buying more high-tech Mil Mi-28N Night Hunter high-tech attack helicopters from Russia. And Turkey, a NATO member state for more than 50 years, is considering buying them too.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The arriving Obama administration will be handed not merely a can of worms but a bucket of asps. Somewhere I suspect the ghost of Herbert Hoover is smiling. The inherited foreign policy problems are no less daunting than the economic mess. But on the latter front, there is at least one piece of good news. It may be possible to set the U.S.-Russian relationship on a new course.
