Where to Grow Money in 2016
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The International Monetary Fund just released its 2016 world economy report anticipating global growth up from 3.1 percent in 2015 to 3.6 percent, roughly matching the 3.5 percent average from 1980 through 2014. Bloomberg reports on the international infrastructure and global policies expected to drive the growth.
Two American contractors were among five people killed when a Jordanian police officer opened fire Monday at a police training compound in Amman, Jordan, reports USA Today.
The next Commander in Chief can expect a next-generation Marine One helicopter built by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Fox News reports what details security allows.
Army researchers at the Spesutie Island Robotics Research Facility in the Chesapeake Bay, near Aberdeen Proving Ground, continue work on Robo Raven, a small unmanned aerial system that flies like a bird, reports Defense System.
NASA plans to expand testing next year of a beyond line-of-sight air traffic management component for unmanned air vehicles, reports Flightglobal.
US financial aid to Israel may jump to $5 billion from the current annual $3 billion established in a 10-year agreement due to expire in 2017. Military.com reports the increase could be finalized during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week.
The new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in cancelling that nation’s F-35 purchases, promises to move savings to Canada’s naval shipbuilding. While firms associated with the Canadian F-35 program stand to lose business, the maritime industry is facing a potential windfall, reports Defense News.
The Navy launched a second and final unarmed ballistic missile test from a submarine in the Pacific, reports Defense Tech.
A last-gasp effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center is expected out of the Pentagon this week, reports Navy Times. It names Colorado’s Centennial Correctional Facility as a site to send detainees officials believe should never be released and who can’t be safely transferred to other countries. Congressional opponents do not want the Gitmo detainees held in a US-based prison.
New York State is going after Exxon regarding climate change, claiming the company misled the public and shareholders about what it knew. The state prosecutors will use an old New York statute dusted off in the early 2000s to go after Wall Street firms, reports Reuters.
Chron has photos and video just released of last year’s launch explosion of the Antares private rocket looking to re-supply 5,000 pounds of equipment, provisions and experimental assignments to the International Space Station.
PilotOnline reports on congressional ire and the Pentagon’s suspension of exercises dealing with the “incompetence” of the radar-carrying blimp program that was designed to safeguard the skies above Washington DC. Instead it is a growing embarrassment, the latest incident an escape and chase last week of one of the blimps that became untethered.
