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The US has revealed that it has spent $43.5bn (£21bn) on intelligence during 2007, the first time the figure has been made public in almost a decade.
Intelligence chief Mike McConnell said he would give no breakdown of how the money was spent, saying that disclosure could harm national security.
The disclosure was made to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.

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In contrast it seems that the US president has tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world's most impoverished continent since taking office and vowed to double that increased amount by 2010 -- to nearly $9 billion.
The G-8, representing nearly one billion people, gave Africa $25 billion in 2004, which will be doubled  by  2010.

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A new Pentagon study lays out the roadmap for a multibillion-dollar push to the final frontier of energy: a satellite system that collects gigawatts worth of solar power and beams it down to Earth.
The military itself could become the anchor tenant for such a power source, due to the current high cost of fuelling combat operations abroad, the study says.

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Russia's military space commander vowed to retaliate with an arms race if any country started putting weapon systems into orbit, he said in remarks published on Wednesday.

"We need to have strong rules about space, to avoid its militarisation and if any country will place a weapon in space, then our response will be the same" - Space Forces Commander Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin.

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The National Security Archive has published a collection of documents concerning U.S. policy with regard to acknowledging the fact of U.S. satellite reconnaissance operations particularly satellite photoreconnaissance.

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A number of top U.S-based physicists have concluded the United States used inaccurate claims to reassure NATO allies about U.S. missile defence plans in Eastern Europe.
They say the planned Polish-based interceptors and a radar system in the Czech Republic could target and catch Russian missiles, thus threatening Russias nuclear deterrent. That view supports Russias criticism of the system. Russia adamantly opposes the plan and the dispute has escalated U.S.-Russian tensions to the highest point since the Cold War.

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According to Russian Space Forces Commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Popovkin, test flights of the new-generation ballistic missile launch detecting satellite is to begin in 2009.

"All relevant decisions have been made to radically change the orbital grouping of satellites intended to detect ballistic missile launches. Flight testing is to begin in 2009" - Vladimir Popovkin.

A program has also been launched to upgrade the ground infrastructure of the early warning system.

"We had a very serious 'hole' in the northwestern sector, but the Lekhtusi station has 'filled' it" - Vladimir Popovkin.

He also criticised the proposal to use Space Forces for dealing with the asteroid threat, pointed out that space-related tasks should be realistic, not something related to science fiction.
According to Vladimir Popovkin The chance of an asteroid hitting the earth is miniscule.

"In some estimates, the chance of a Third Word War erupting is much greater. Let us deal with real threats, not with fantasies" - Vladimir Popovkin.

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Europe is signalling a growing willingness to develop new military space capabilities and more closely integrate them. But moving toward a unified milspace will require high-level political support that remains elusive, government and industry executives say.
French officials have been rallying Europe to put more joint effort into milspace. And while more nations are jumping on the bandwagon, cooperation has been largely ad hoc and with little concern for broader integration.

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Pentagon Developing New Unmanned Spy Planes
The Pentagon is on the hunt for new sophisticated unmanned spy planes that can be sent to any location above the planet within an hour and remain over the hot spot gathering intelligence for at least five years without touching down .

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Terrorists and extremists have set up shop on the Internet, using it to recruit new members, spread propaganda and plan attacks across the world. The size and scope of these dark corners of the Web are vast and disturbing. But in a non-descript building in Tucson, a team of computational scientists are using the cutting-edge technology and novel new approaches to track their moves online, providing an invaluable tool in the global war on terror.
Funded by the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies, Hsinchun Chen and his Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona have created the Dark Web project, which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.

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MISTY was one of at least two satellites developed in exceptional secrecy subsequent to the 1983 Reagan administration decision to establish a stealth satellite program. (Note) The idea for MISTY came from OD&E engineers, some of whom had been enamored of the idea of a stealth satellite since the 1970s--having rediscovered the concept first suggested in the 1960s. The objective was to reduce the threat to U.S. satellites from the Soviet Union--whose antisatellite program was of significant concern during the early 1980s.

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