Army stops work on Boeing's manned ground vehicles

The U.S. Army has formally canceled part of Boeing Co.'s manned ground systems contract, under which the defense contractor was expected to build combat vehicles better suited for fighting insurgents in places like Afghanistan.

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Boeing will have to compete on big Army contract

Boeing Co. will have to compete for work on part of the Army's modernization plan following the service's decision to break up the giant contract that the company managed.

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Army plans to break up $160B modernization effort

The Army plans to break up its $160 billion modernization plan and will give the high-tech fighting tools to all its combat brigades instead of just a handful as originally planned, a spokesman for the service said Monday.

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The transformation of Russia's military may be the most successful of President Dmitry Medvedev's modernization programs, but it's not something he talks about much publicly because it is so controversial.

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"Comrades, I'm very excited today, because the large-scale online survey sina.com that was done for us showed that our next generation is quite promising and our Party's cause will be carried on.

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Riot police clashed with supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in the center of Tehran Saturday evening after the government declared that he had been defeated in a landslide by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Globalization in Indian Cinema Aka the Bollywood industry

Recently I was doing some research for a topic on my composition class in college to argue issues that are of concern in the Indian cinema industry, and how globalization is impacting its culture and traditional values.

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NextGen Taking Shape at Embry-Riddle By Chad Trautvetter September 25, 2008 ATC, Government

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He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl.

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Over the last year, Turkey has been in the news with some frequency.

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Are the Tibetans doomed to go the way of the American Indians? Will they be reduced to nothing more than a tourist attraction, peddling cheap mementos of what a once-great culture? That sad fate is looking more and more likely, and the Olympic year already has been soured by the  …

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Modernization's dry spell

Seeing the long queues of poor Filipinos to avail cheap NFA rice amidst the country's burgeoning rice crisis any kababayan (Filipino) can easily attribute the crisis solely to the inadequacy of the current administration in managing the economy.

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The Vatican has issued new rules making the route to sainthood more difficult. Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins called for more rigour and sobriety in the Catholic Church's saint making process.

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that 2008 should be the year of the "bottom billion," citing the need for renewed determination to address the needs of the poorest of the world's poor who have been left behind by global economic growth.

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India's globalization and technological advances make old artisans like G.P. Sawant obsolete even as they provide new opportunities for his family.

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drive-by wifi

I recall back in the late 1980s when I first communicated via old DOS-level BBS software with a friend. The other person was in the same city as I, and I could have just as easily picked up the phone and talked on the phone.

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Little boys who changed China

THERE are certain bubbles of brilliance in time and place from which emerge small groups of people destined to change the world. The thinkers of ancient Athens provide a classic example. One of the least known, however, is my adopted hometown in China.

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Li Jinsong and Li Jianqiang are Chinese trial lawyers who take on difficult political cases, tangle with the police and seek solace in the same religion, Christianity.

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As we move ahead ending the first month of a new year, it's important to take a look back in the pages of history and recognize individuals who have shaped the landscape of modern Japan.

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Panel: Changes demand trust, accountability, inclusion

Successful internal transformation comes when an agency's different sectors help shape it, a panel of agency officials agreed today.

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IRS tries piecemeal approach to modernization

The Internal Revenue Service has fundamentally changed its strategy for modernizing its decades-old systems and technologies, said Richard Spires, the IRS' chief information officer.

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Of Historical Musts & Clashing Desires

Perhaps, for people who never heard of democracy, passing through a transitional phase of enlightened despotism was necessary and perhaps even a natural part of their societal evolution.

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China is demonized by the Western media. "The cause of this is two-fold: on the one hand, it was the ideological prejudice from the west that demonized China, and on the other hand, China's development is not perfect, it has its own shortcomings during the development process, …

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The Chinese Communist Party, long expected to be a victim of economic modernization and the transformative powers of technology, has instead been learning how to use those powers to its own ends.

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Unpackaging Modernization

I don't think the Western 'packaged view of modernization is inherently flawed. -Claus

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