Aviation Week & Space Technology

USAF Brig. Gen. Roger H. Watkins has been appointed deputy commander/chief of staff of the Joint Warfare Center, Supreme Allied Command for

Jill Pomeroy (see photos) has become director of legislative affairs and Michael O’Hara director of business development for space technology and services for Ball Aerospace’s Washington Operations. Pomeroy was legislative affairs director for DigitalGlobe, while O’Hara was director for civil space propulsion development at Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Allan H. Horowitz has been named senior counsel in the aviation and transportation litigation practice of Washngton law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge

Steven D. Kephart has been appointed vice president-governmental fueling and logistics for Epic Aviation, Salem, Oregon, effective Sept. 1. He will be retiring as an Air Force colonel serving as a director of customer operations for the Defense Logistics Agency.

Michael King (see photo) has become chief operating officer of SimCom Training Centers, Orlando, Florida. He was director of business development for FlightSafety International and had been manager of its St. Louis Learning Center.

Nathan Stower has been named chief executive of the London-based British Air Transport Association, effective Aug. 18. He has been head of public

Lisa R. Davis (see photo) has been appointed vice president-communications for the Linthicum, Maryland-based Electronic Systems Sector of the Northrop

Michael Choo has been named sales manager for Asia for Universal Avionics, Tucson, Arizona.

Monte Belger has been appointed president of Metron Aviation, Dulles, Virginia. He was vice president-industry relations and had been vice president

Mike Humphreys (see photo) has been named CEO of the Airline Services Group, Manchester, England. He succeeds Bryan Bodek, who is leaving the company

Eric John has become president of Boeing Korea. He succeeds Pat Gaines, who plans to retire in September. John was a career member of the U.S. Senior

Alan Gershenhorn has been appointed executive vice president/chief commercial officer for Atlanta-based UPS . He was chief sales, marketing and strategy officer.

An article that appeared on page 30 of the June 23 issue should have said the French state is the largest single shareholder in Arianespace, Europe’s

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, the official export credit agency of America, is in the fight of its life. Established in the Great Depression to create jobs by aiding the export of American products via loan guarantees and insurance, Ex-Im, as it is known, has been rechartered or reauthorized by Congress 16 times. Those extensions have come nearly always by voice vote or unanimous consent of lawmakers.

July 16—Farnborough Civil Manufacturing Briefings, Farnborough (England) air show. Oct. 7-9—MRO Europe, Madrid. Nov. 4-6—MRO Asia, Singapore. Nov. 19

Aerojet Rocketdyne has finished testing the J-2X rocket engine for NASA. But the company probably will have to put the Apollo-heritage upper stage

Almost-space tourists with $75,000 to spare will be able to see a view something like this remote-control fisheye photo taken during a 5-hr., 1/10

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected a protest by Raytheon and Norway’s Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace over the Defense

Scorpion is slated to depart from Wichita July 1 for its long trip to the U.K.

Marking India’s next milestone in its efforts to establish an effective nuclear triad, sea trials of the indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant are

Marking India’s next milestone in its efforts to establish an effective nuclear triad, sea trials of the indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant are

The search strategy working group (SSWG) investigating the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) has used overlapping results from new analyses

Rolls-Royce is to modify the lift fan systems on already-delivered Lockheed Martin F-35Bs to incorporate changes from flight testing and bring the

Boeing is introducing an automated 737 wing assembly process that is designed to reduce flow time by more than one-third as part of the company’s plan to increase monthly production rates to 47 and beyond, and to prepare for the introduction of the MAX at gradually increasing rates.

An article on page 38 in the June 23 issue incorrectly identified the commander of the space shuttle mission that delivered the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit. The mission, STS-31, was commanded by Loren J. Shriver. Charles Bolden, who is now NASA administrator, was the mission pilot.