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At the U.S. Central Command change-of-command ceremony in Florida, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that U.S. service members who serve or have served in Iraq or Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve will receive the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal.
DoD Illustration
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At the FIDAE airshow in Chile, an executive from Embraer brief Reuters on the latest development in the KC-390 flight test program.
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Somewhere in Delaware, a ATR 42-500 is siting in a hangar collecting dust after $86 million was spent trying to convert the airliner into a surveillance plane for counter-narcotics mission in Afghanistan.
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Photo: U.S. Department of Justice
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp. says it is ready to adapt radars and sensors developed for the military to help autonomous driving cars navigate around obstacles.
By Hunini (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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