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TEWKSBURY, Mass., June 29, 2009 MA-Raytheon-awarded TEWKSBURY, Mass. , /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company has received a $36.1 million Foreign Military Sales award from the U.S. Army to provide the State of Kuwait with Patriot Configuration-3 radar upgrade depot test equipment, training and related technical services.

To help to prevent a military spending blowout in a severe economic slump, the United States is to make substantial cuts to its costly and controversial missile defence programme.

President Obama arrives to Moscow. He is expected to talk about missile defense, political reform and cooperation and travel spots.

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will likely sign a stack of agreements during their Moscow summit, but their chief goal may be for the United States and Russia to stop acting like adversaries - even if they can't be friends.

U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The Washington Times.

Visit SPACE.com to explore a new Tech feature each Wednesday. The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor is shown under field conditions in this artist's illustration.

Through the Cold War the United States and Russia built vast nuclear arsenals, creating a balance of terror that gripped the world.

The United States announced a flurry of new sanctions Tuesday on North Korean and Iranian entities said to be aiding Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs .

Mock models of a North Korean Scud-B missile, center, South Korea's Hawk surface-to-air missiles are on display at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 29, 2009.

North Korea criticized the U.S. on Monday for positioning missile defense systems around Hawaii, calling the deployment part of a plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal in retaliation.

Call this coming July Fourth Dependence Day -- the day marking prudent and responsible America's realization that we do indeed depend on the diplomatic power and technological capability of anti-missile defensive systems.

The answer is so simple that few have even thought of it. North Korea plans on another long-range test of a Taepodong-2 missile that could potentially hit the US.

The North Koreans are threatening to attack Hawaii July 4 weekend. But, for now, tourists are shrugging their well-tanned shoulders.

Lockheed Martin installed the latest evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System - which includes a new ballistic missile defense signal processor, Aegis BSP - on the cruiser USS Lake Erie .

There is a tendency for newly installed presidents, like adolescents suddenly liberated from adult supervision, to do the exact opposite of what their predecessors did.

The top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, will visit Moscow this week to discuss the sensitive topic of missile defense with his Russian counterpart, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

Lockheed Martin has installed the latest evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System a ' which includes a new ballistic missile defense signal processor, Aegis BSP a ' on the cruiser USS Lake Erie .

EMBED SUMMARY: Fox News' Bill Hemmer did not challenge Rep. Trent Franks' criticism of the Obama administration for proposing to reduce the missile defense budget, failing to note that Defense Department officials have testified that the cuts allow them to more effectively manage the fleet of interceptors that counter rogue state threats.

Comments What on Earth are they thinking? The Obama administration and its Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are significantly reducing America's missile defense programs at the very moment when the need for such systems is becoming ever more palpable.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the first of two Space Tracking and Surveillance System demonstration satellites to the U.S. Air Force's Cape Canaveral Air Station for launch preparation.