- Training Commanders Tout Guff Coast
Ranges.
Gulf area promoted for standoff munitions testing, joint training exercises The uncertainty surrounding the availability of live-fire training and testing ranges has fueled a lobbying effort to convince the military services that they should take advantage of the large span of water, land and airspace along the Florida Panhandle and ......
- Piloting reform
HEADNOTE The Army, Navy and Air Force are pursuing 10 pilot programs each to test concepts for streamlining logistics support for both new and existing weapons. Most pilots are designed around two general concepts-shifting more responsibility for weapons system performance to contractors, and increasing weapons reliability by inserting new, more ......
- BAE SYSTEMS AWARDED LASER WARNING
CONTRACT.
BAE SYSTEMS Integrated Defense Solutions has received a $3.5 million contract from ATK Integrated Defense Company, Clearwater, Florida, for production of an integrated laser warning receiver. This contract is for deliveries of laser warning electronics to be integrated into the AN/AAR-47(V)2 Missile Warning Receiver produced by ATK Integrated Defense Company....
- Grumman inks $42M Navy deal
BETHPAGE - Northrop Grumman has landed a threeyear contract with the U.S. Navy worth $41.9 million to produce wing sections for its top radar-jamming aircraft, part of an expected resurgence of defense spending, company officials said. Los Angeles-based Grumman, still the dominant local military contractor, will undertake the engineering work ......
- Special operators seeking a technological
advantage.
The U.S. Special Operations Command is looking for "leap-ahead" technologies that can give its troops a decided advantage over their adversaries in wars such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced in January that the command--made up of elite, unconventional warfare units from the Army, ......
- Air Force search-and-rescue crews stressed by war, say
commanders.
Air Force search-and-rescue crews are busier than ever helping the Army with medical evacuations of wounded troops. The intense pace of operations, Air Force commanders assert, is straining units and is causing frustrations because medevac procedures differ among the services. Specialized Air Force rescue crews and their HH-60 Pave ......
- Commandant: Short-Takeoff JSF is
'affordable'; lockheed martin receives $19 billion contract to
build 22 test aircraft.
The Marine Corps version of the Joint Strike Fighter, at approximately $50 million a piece, would be an "affordable" airplane, when compared to the prices seen in other aviation programs today, said Gen. James L. Jones, commandant of the Corps. The JSF prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp., won the competition ......