Smiths Aerospace Selected By US Navy For F/A-18
Clearwater FL (SPX) Mar 24, 2006
Smiths Aerospace has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $34.5 million to provide performance-based logistics (PBL) in support of the stores management upgrade system (SMUG) on the F/A-18 C, D, E, F, & G aircraft. The program includes a five-year contract worth $16.5 million, with an $18 million follow-on contract for five years. The work will take place at Smiths' Florida and Michigan facilities and is expected to be complete in 2016.
Lockheed Martin Qualifies Upgraded Paveway II Laser Guided Bomb
Archbald PA (SPX) Mar 24, 2006
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force recently qualified an upgraded version of its Paveway II Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) through comprehensive flight testing to meet current U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy joint performance specifications. The qualification followed extensive joint service testing in accordance with the services' performance requirements.
LockMart To Modernize US Navy Aegis-Equipped Cruisers
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Mar 24, 2006
The US Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $20.8 million contract to deliver the first Aegis Combat System upgrade ship-set for a cruiser modernization program. The upgrade will extend the life, enhance the capability and improve the operational cost efficiency of up to 22 existing Aegis-equipped cruisers.
New Sensor Tech Detects Chemical, Biological, Nuclear And Explosive Materials
Argonne IL (SPX) Mar 24, 2006
Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, using an emerging sensing technology, have developed a suite of sensors for national security applications that can quickly and effectively detect chemical, biological, nuclear and explosive materials.
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No More Stalling On Iran: Rice
Washington (AFP) Mar 24, 2006
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, displaying impatience with slow UN talks on Iran's nuclear activities, warned Thursday "there can't be any stalling" in dealing with the potential threat.
Rumsfeld Presses Iraqis To Form Government
Washington (AFP) Mar 24, 2006
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged Iraqi leaders Thursday not to delay in forming a national unity government, warning that violence and killings continue while they deliberate.
"We talk to the folks out there, of course, every day, and they feel that progress is being made. But it hasn't yet happened," Rumsfeld told reporters.
Basque Offer Raises Questions
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2006
A follow-up communique from ETA expanding on its earlier offer of a permanent ceasefire has prompted more caution than hope or relief in Spain over the Basque armed separatists' movement's real intentions.
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Nuclear Weapons Center to Open at Kirtland Air Force Base
Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Mar 24, 2006
Kirtland will become the home of Air Force Materiel Command's newest organization, the Nuclear Weapons Center, on March 31. "The base has been at the heart of nuclear activities for over 60 years, so it is no surprise that the center would find a home here," said Col. Greg Foraker, director of the Nuclear Weapons Directorate.
L-3 Comms Acquires Two Leaders In Threat Detection
New York NY (SPX) Mar 24, 2006
L-3 Communications has announced the acquisition of two companies that will add significant technologies to its broad range of military and homeland security products. L-3 has acquired CyTerra and SafeView. These acquisitions are both expected to be slightly accretive to L-3's earnings in 2006. The terms of these transactions were not disclosed.
DRS Tech Tto Upgrade Fire Control System Of US Army Bradley Combat System
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Mar 23, 2006
DRS Technologies has announced that it has received a $139 million contract to provide Improved Bradley Acquisition Subsystems (IBAS) for the U.S. Army's Bradley Combat System program. The Bradley Fighting Vehicles are among the most formidable ground force capabilities in U.S. Army inventory and continue to be an integral part of military operations in Iraq.
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Fuji Heavy Industries: Apache Longbow Helicopter For Japanese Government
St Louis MO (SPX) Mar 24, 2006
Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) has delivered the first AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-role combat helicopter to the Japanese government during a ceremony in Japan, signaling a new era in capabilities for the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force.
Commentary: Torture Blame Game
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2006
When a colonel testifies "under grant of immunity" against a sergeant who sicced dogs on prisoners at Abu Ghraib, it strikes the average onlooker as a miscarriage of military justice. Shouldn't it be the other way round? Or the sergeant being granted immunity to testify about a superior whose wink and a nod stained the country's honor, as it hadn't been in living memory?
Interview: Viktor Mikhailov: Part 2
Moscow (UPI) Mar 24, 2006
Viktor Mikhailov is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the director of the Institute of Strategic Stability of the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, a chief expert of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center at the Research Institute of Experimental Physics, a holder of the Soviet and Russian Lenin and State awards, and was the nuclear minister from 1992-1998.
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