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The US Navy's EA-18G Growler is now operational, marking a new era in the Pentagon's ability to conduct electronic attack missions more effectively around the globe. (Aviation Week)

The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions to a new US-built fighter jet and deliver it to Israel by 2015, provided a deal is sealed in coming months. (Reuters)

US President Barack Obama's trip to China has a dirty little secret: cyberwarfare. It is an issue Beijing refuses to acknowledge exists, but it has the potential to torpedo military relations between the two nations. Almost every other conceivable area of disagreement between China and the US will have been raised during Obama's visit by one side or the other - even such highly sensitive issues as human rights and the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang province. (Time)

Microsoft denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. (ComputerWorld)

The large-scale exercises Iran is currently conducting to test its air-defense network and assess its ability to protect its nuclear facilities appear to be little more than a show of defiance against the United States, Israel and Russia, its longtime key arms supplier. (UPI)

Putting an end to debates over the induction of women into combat roles in the Armed Forces, the Navy on Friday will script history when it enlists two women officers as observers on board its fleet of maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). (The Hindu)

With new submarines, destroyers and mine warfare ships, China's Navy is clearly benefiting from modernization financed by the nation's rapidly growing economy, a new report tells US lawmakers. (Defense News)

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"Systemic Electronic Attack: The Future is Now" Adelaide, Australia

Crane, IN

Berlin, Germany

Washington, DC

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