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The world keeps getting more and more interconnected, and law firms that are able to smoothly navigate international waters across dozens of practice areas are extremely valuable. Cross-border legal work is complex, and the firms that do it well deserve recognition as the global powerhouses that they are. Law360 (sub. req.) has announced the latest …

President Trump meets with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore WASHINGTON: North Korea’s test firing this morning of two short-range missiles is not an an obstacle to the Trump Administration’s efforts to reach a denuclearization agreement with Pyongyang, says Rep. Mike Turner, top Republican on the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee. “In looking …

Click to view full-size In the 50-years since two young engineers named Leonard Newman and David Gross started a small defense company called Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems above a General Electric appliance store in Mount Vernon, New York, their company has become a widely respected, technically advanced mid-tier defense contractor that military organizations around the world turn …

  A National Guard fuel convoy at the National Training Center on Fort Irwin, Calif. DARPA plans to use machine learning and agile software development to remake the Defense Department’s logistics and supply chain operations. The goal of the $55 million, 43-month program is to move from a lumbering behemoth that often puts the wrong parts …

Royal Saudi Air Force WASHINGTON: In a bipartisan effort, the Senate voted to block the sale of billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia by a 53-45 margin today. But the win for critics of the Saudi-led war in Yemen may be short-lived however, as the total falls well short of the 67 votes …

Space debris in orbit around Earth PARIS AIR SHOW: Lockheed is playing guinea pig for a new ‘space sustainability’ rating scheme designed to show how well satellites comply with best operational practices such as debris mitigation. “It’s a real serious issue with debris,” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president for Lockheed Martin Space told reporters here …

Israeli firm Elbit’s J-MUSIC self-protection suite equipping the NATO/European five-nation Multilateral Multi-National Tanker Transport Fleet PARIS AIR SHOW: Having successfully completed a major milestone test at the end of May, the five-nation Tanker fleet (MMF) is actively seeking new partners to expand its current fleet of eight Airbus A330 MMRT aircraft to 11. “We are …

PARIS AIR SHOW: It’s a mantra: 25 by 25. Lockheed Martin recites it to ward off the criticism that the F-35 is too expensive to operate. What’s it mean? That the costs of operating the F-35 each hour will fall to $25,000 per hour from its current $44,000. The JSF Joint Program Office is targeting $34,000 …

LE BOURGET: Startup Kleos Space has won an additional 1 million Euro ($1.2 million) in government support for development of radio frequency (RF) based geolocation data, products and services, bringing total state funding by the tiny country of Luxembourg for the firm to almost 3 billion Euro ($3.3 billion). Contingent on the success of the …

For those of us who entered law school without any experience of the legal world beyond what we’d seen on television, it’s no real surprise that we mostly ended up as litigators. That’s the practice we were all familiar with and law school didn’t do us any favors, crafting even the most transactional of subjects …