The 3U server for enterprise/data center and military applications is powered by dual Intel Xeon 3.06Ghz. processors, and the motherboard supports six full-length PCI boards and one AGP video board. Two slots are 32-bit/33Mhz. PCI slots, and four are 64-bit/100Mhz. PCI-X slots. The 320-watt ATX-style power supply provides power for a fully loaded system. With front-to-rear airflow, two fans blow cooling air through the card cage and out the rear of the enclosure.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $10.9-million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with a dual-function avionics maintenance Trainer for repair technicians servicing MH-60S and MH-60R multi-mission helicopters.
For years India has been a country hobbled by foreign policy problems and defense aspirations that lacked follow-through. But a change in resolve and international politics is changing all that.
Jiang Zhu has been named chief science officer for the US Global Nanospace Co., Carson City, Nev. He is a postdoctoral research scientist at Rice University in Houston.
Boeing's 7E7 has taken the spotlight when it comes to the company's new designs, but the aerospace giant's military arm is betting its large-aircraft future on the ultra long-range blended-wing body (BWB).
SPS Technologies has launched an updated version of its online fastener finder. This web application offers users the ability to search and view data sheets for standard fasteners manufactured by the company's Aerospace Fasteners Group. Specific fasteners may be located using a dynamic parameter search function organized by product subcategory. Results are displayed by type, strength and material, along with a link to the product's data sheet. Enhancements to the web site include the ability to quickly locate the data sheet for the type of fastener required.
Switzerland's federal office for civil aviation late last month closed an inspection file involving Hemus Air, a Bulgarian charter airline operating Tu-134s, Tu-154s and Yak-40s. On Feb. 6, the Swiss officials told Hemus Air "at this time neither your company nor one of your aircraft is banned to fly to and from Switzer-land." The comments come in the aftermath of the Jan. 3 Flash Airlines Boeing 737-300 accident in Egypt. During the investigation, the technical integrity of charter airlines has been questioned (AW&ST Feb. 2, p. 47).
Lufthansa German Airlines is offering its 13.2% stake in Amadeus Global Travel Distribution to investors for 394 million euros ($496 million) in a two-stage offering.
With the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) effort to replace many of its fixed-wing aircraft gaining steam, Lockheed Martin has devised a low-observable, multirole aircraft that could also serve as a clandestine tanker for stealth F/A-22s, F-35s and B-2s.
Textron Inc. has long been a player in a wide range of businesses, from aircraft and finance to industrial products and components. But a gradual transformation may be in the offing.
As the 15-member European Union prepares to take in 10 new members--a May 1 enlargement plan that will welcome 75 million people--Austrian Airlines sees a lucrative regional market opening and is adding 60 additional flights into Eastern and Central Europe to tap into it.
Ron Root has been appointed chairman/CEO of Hupp Aerospace/Defense, New Haven, Ind. He succeeds founder Noel Hupp, who will become vice chairman. Rott had been acting president.
ERA OF PARADUBICE, CZECH REPUBLIC, is expanding its multilateration surveillance systems outside the country's borders. Working with Mode-S transponder equipped aircraft and vehicles, its airport surveillance cooperative sensor system will be providing positions within 5 meters, updates once a second, and identification of aircraft and vehicles on the surface at Copenhagen, Palma de Mallorca and Prague Ruzyne airports. Commissioning of all three is slated for this year.
Daniel R. Mulville has been named to the board of advisers of Constellation Services International Inc., Alexandria, Va. He was associate deputy administrator of NASA.
Avigdor Berlin (see photo) has been named vice president-marketing and business development at IAI International, the U.S. subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries. He succeeds Zeev Nahamoni, who has retired. Berlin was vice president-operations at IAI's Elta Systems Group.
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The U.S. Air Force will be making critical choices in the next few months as planners try to fit a growing desire for new weapon systems into the Fiscal 2006 budget request. In addition to their renewed interest in the FB-22 (a bomber-derivative of the F/A-22 fighter) and the F-35B Stovl (short-takeoff and vertical-landing) version of the Joint Strike Fighter, U.S. Air Force leaders want to find money in the next few years for new combat search-and-rescue helicopters, enhancements to A-10 ground-attack aircraft and upgrades to existing fighters.
The Asian aerospace market is showing strong signs of recovery after having been beaten down by the regional economic crisis of the late 1990s, setbacks suffered after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S. and the SARS outbreak (see p. 54). The upturn is expected to be visible at the Asian Aerospace show in Singapore, which opens Feb. 24. By far the highest profile military program there will be the host nation's fighter competition among (from top down) the Boeing F-15T (derivative of the USAF F-15E), Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon.
Steve DeLoach has been promoted to director of sales-East Coast Maintenance Sales Team, Doc Palm to director of sales-Midwest maintenance Sales Team and Brian Schank to director of sales-West Coast Maintenance sales Team, all for Gulfstream Aerospace, Savannah, Ga. DeLoach was district manager for Eastern U.S. service center sales, while Palm was general sales manager for service center sales and Schank was Western U.S. sales manager for service center sales. John Cooreman and Mark Fischer have become national avionics sales managers.
Gary Hamme has been named vice president-marketing and enrollment management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fla. He was vice president-enrollment management at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Donald Fitzmaurice and Justin Adams have been appointed to the board of advisers of Konarka Technologies Inc., Lowell, Mass. Daniel Patrick McGahn has been named executive vice president/chief marketing officer. Fitzmaurice is professor of nanochemistry at University College, Dublin, Ireland, and founder of NTERA Ltd. Adams is CEO of Switzerland-based High Power Lithium.
Also, France has awarded 240 million euros ($304 million) worth of contracts to Thales to expand C4ISR systems and reinforce network-centric warfare capabilities. One, valued at 113 million euros, will cover the supply of common SIC 21 (new-generation command information system) platforms to link 125 onboard and onshore naval sites to national and coalition C3I networks. A second, worth 60 million euros, is for installation of Rifan (a secure aero-naval intranet network designed to ensure shared situational awareness) on 67 navy vessels.
The slow response time of U.S. forces, including the absence of coalition air support, during the recent attacks on Iraqi government personnel and buildings in Falluja is receiving top-level oversight. "We could do better," said Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We're looking at that [incident]." Large numbers of Army attack helicopters are based at Balad, just 50 mi. away, A-10s at Kirkuk, 150 mi. to the north, and continuous air patrols are flown out of Kuwait. But no help was called up during the attacks by Iraqi insurgents.
