Larry Hungerford (see photo) has been named president/CEO of Washington-based Terma North America Inc. He has been its vice president-business development for command, control and sensor systems, and was vice president-domestic business development for space programs at Lockheed Martin.
USN Rear Adms. (lower half) Mark W. Darrah, Mathias W. Winter and Gordon D. Peters have been selected for promotion to rear admiral. Darrah will become program executive officer for Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation at Patuxent River, Maryland. He will succeed Winter, who has been named chief of naval research/director of innovation, technology requirements, and test and evaluation.
Kevin A. Bell (see photo) has been appointed lead executive for Northrop Grumman Corp. business in Dayton, Ohio. He retired from the U.S. Air Force as assistant to the commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center at nearby Wright Patterson AFB.
Candace Chesser (see photo) has been promoted to program manager from deputy program manager of the U.S. Navy’s Air Combat Electronics Program Office, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. She succeeds Capt. Tracy Barkhimer, who has retired. Chesser was principal deputy program manager for the Naval Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office.
Col. Larry Myrick of San Luis Obispo, California, has been named the next national vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. He is an adviser to the CAP national commander, Maj. Gen. Chuck Carr. Col. Larry Ragland, who has been Middle East commander, has been named chief of staff to the national commander, Brig. Gen. Joe Vazquez. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jayson Altieri of CAP’s North Carolina Wing, has been appointed vice chairman of the CAP board of governors. He succeeds Lt. Col.
Glenn Hausmann (see photo) has been promoted to manager of FlightSafety International’s Learning Center at New York LaGuardia Airport from the facility’s director of standards and manager. He succeeds Ralph Lintelman (see photo) who has been named manager of the Learning Center in Wilmington, Delaware. Lintelman follows Barry Massey, who plans to retire on July 31.
Jeff Plant has been appointed leader of the American Airlines team at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. He was the airline’s managing director at Los Angeles International Airport. Plant succeeds Art Pappas, who will be retiring.
Long dreaded by the defense industry, a significant ramping down of war--related supplemental budgets has begun with the Obama administration’s outline of its fiscal 2015 request. The White House submitted a summary in late June—although not yet actual legislation—to lawmakers of its Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget for the year starting Oct. 1.
Two years after he ushered his “Pilot’s Bill of Rights” into law to bolster private pilots’ positions during federal enforcement actions, the Capitol’s leading everyman-aviator advocate, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), wants to further amend the list.
John Clements has become director of research, development and testing for Proof Research, Columbia Falls, Montana. He was weapons program manager at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
As I read Bill Sweetman’s recent commentary “Hot Air” ( AW&ST May 26-June 2, p. 15), regarding the landing mat challenges for the F-35B vertical-landing aircraft, I wondered if a low-cost, low-tech solution to this problem is already on hand. Why not investigate the use of a mat that has tubes filled with water?
In “Computing Crunch” ( AW&ST May 19, p. 18), Graham Warwick points out that even with efficiency improvements, an exascale (1E18 flops) supercomputer is projected to require 20-200 megawatts or more. These numbers match power-generation figures for small modular reactors. Since a key factor is utilization, processing at or near capacity for extended periods, this operating load could be considered ideal for a dedicated nuclear power application.
Something does not add up with reader Bill Johnson’s letter and accompanying photograph ( AW&ST June 16, p. 9) about his memory of Lufthansa Boeing 747 training in 1971 and the photo of D-ABYC. The photo is of a Boeing 747-8, which was manufactured in 2012 so could not have been the aircraft Johnson saw in 1971. I am curious as to whether Lufthansa reused the registration D-ABYC on two different aircraft. Can anyone shed light on this?
Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Marillyn Hewson sat down outside Washington with AW&ST Editor-in-Chief Joseph C. Anselmo and Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler to talk about the issues facing the company and its programs.
