COLTEC INDUSTRIES INC., Charlotte, N.C., acquired Eaton Corp.'s temperature sensor product line. Coltec makes temperature sensor products at its Lewis Engineering operation in Naugatuck, Conn.
Lockheed Martin Information Systems, Orlando, Fla., and Air Safety International, Vero Beach, Fla., agreed to combine complementary capabilities and resources to pursue business opportunities in the flight training market, Lockheed Martin said. The two companies will design and deliver custom-tailored flight training instructional materials, personnel, simulation, maintenance and support.
The threat to the U.S. of a ballistic missile attack today is broader, more mature and evolving more rapidly than the Intelligence Community has ever estimated or reported, according to the findings of a congressionally mandated commission. Moreover, said the "Commission to Assess The Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States," the U.S. may have little or no warning of an attack.
Ukrainian space officials are expected to raise the possibility of gaining entry into the International Space Station program by building a research module for cash-strapped Russia during a meeting today with NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin.
RADA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES LTD., Herzliya Pituach, Israel, elected Major Gen. (res.) Herzle Bodinger, president and CEO, as chairman of the board, the company announced yesterday.
Talks between the Defense Dept. and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to resolve the Pentagon's concerns about the proposed merger of the two companies have failed, the Pentagon said yesterday.
Charges related to previously announced plant closures and cost increases on the E-2C and E-8C surveillance aircraft programs led to a 14% drop in earnings for Northrop Grumman in the second quarter of 1998, the company announced yesterday. The company earned $93 million in the quarter on sales of $2.1 billion, down from earnings of $108 million on sales of $2.2 billion in the same period a year ago.
The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon yesterday completed the first flight of production T-6A Texan II Joint Primary Aircraft System Trainer with 1.8 hour mission.
Raytheon Systems Co. won a contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to provide Navy Global Broadcast Service-Shipboard Antenna Systems. Raytheon said yesterday that the initial contract is valued at $3.5 million for 14 years, and that additional options for 300 terminals could bring the value to $73.5 million. It said the next-generation satellite communications terminals will provide high bandwidth communications over the U.S. Navy UHF Follow-On (UFO) satellites and future satellite systems.
Two top Pentagon officials briefed Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) on a plan to reclassify the 40 User Operational Evaluation System (UOES) missiles of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program into test missiles, and to charge prime contractor Lockheed Martin for future test failures. Weldon, chairman of the House National Security research and development subcommittee, told The DAILY yesterday that he agrees with the approach.
The Russian Air Force has performed an experimental long- range flight with a versatile formation of combat and support aircraft to demonstrate a new power-projection capability for the first time.
Litton's Electro-Optical Systems won part of a three-year contract from the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J., for production of night vision systems and image intensification (I2) tubes, Litton announced yesterday. Litton was awarded $18.9 million as part of a the Omnibus (OMNI) V contract. Raytheon got the other part (see related story on page 80). Litton will make Enhanced Third Generation Night Vision Devices and associated spares. Including all options, the contract value could exceed $196.5 million.
Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA) is studying a 50-kilogram orbital testbed, measuring only 50 centimeters in each direction, that would fly into space as a piggyback on other payloads and conduct experiments designed to prove out new spacecraft bus technology. Dubbed m-Lab Sat, the hexagonal spacecraft would test: -- Triple-redundant on-board computers; -- Design technology for an integrated bus; -- Three-axis control technology for small satellites and
Boeing Toronto and the Canadian Auto Workers union have renewed a three-year agreement. As part of an effort to position the Toronto plant for additional work, the new agreement was negotiated and approved on Friday, months before the current agreement was due to expire.
NASA will boost its ability to stay in touch with Earth-orbiting satellites tomorrow when it opens a new Space Network ground terminal on Guam Island in the Pacific. The new facility will give the U.S. space agency "global, full-time and real-time" communications with spacecraft using the Space Network by linking geosynchronous tracking and data relay satellites that can't be "seen" by the Cacique and Danzante ground stations at White Sands, N.M.
A Pentagon spokesman, responding to charges yesterday by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) that sensitive U.S. technology has been transferred to China through launches of American satellites on Chinese rockets (see story beginning on page 73), said the Dept. of Defense been maintaining the necessary safeguards.
Hughes Electronics Corp., El Segundo, Calif., earned $56.1 million on sales of $1.4 billion in the 1998 second quarter. In the same period a year ago, earnings from operations stood at $6.1 million, excluding a $318.3 million after-tax gain related to the PanAmSat merger, bringing profits to $324.4 million on sales of $1.2 billion. Operating profit of $78.2 million in the 1998 second quarter marked a 36.5% improvement over 1997's $57.3 million.
NASA's baseline for the "Triana" whole-Earth-imaging spacecraft proposed by Vice President Gore is a Next Generation Small Explorer (SMEX- Lite) spacecraft launched with a Space Shuttle upper stage into a halo orbit at the Lagrangian point, with outside contributions and data-purchase arrangements explicitly encouraged.
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., said it has signed a letter of intent to buy Helicopter Support Inc. (HSI). HSI is an independent helicopter logistical support company headquartered in Orange, Conn. HSI will continue to operate as a separate entity through its four complementary businesses: distribution, overhaul and repair, manufacturing and freight forwarding of helicopter parts and components. HSI has more than 800 customers in 55 countries.
Options exercised by the U.S. Navy with Bell Helicopter Textron and Bombardier for continued work on vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles will provide Bell with $4.8 million and Bombardier with $4.5 million.
INTELSAT ASSEMBLY of Parties members voted yesterday to confirm Conny Kullman as the new director general and chief executive of the international satellite communications consortium. Kullman, a 15-year veteran of the Intelsat staff, was nominated by the consortium's Board of Governors last month (DAILY, June 16).
BVR Technologies Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, said it won a contract through its European strategic partner, BGT of Germany, to supply BVR's EHUD fourth generation rangeless Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) system to the Tactical Leadership Program facility at Florennes, Belgium. BGT will act as prime contractor with BVR as its main subcontractor. The contract will include airborne pods to be used with front-line combat aircraft. Ground debriefing station and systems delivery are expected within a year.
Raytheon Systems Co., Lexington, Mass., won a three-year, $107.5 million contract from the U.S. Army to make Thermal Weapon Sights and Driver's Vision Enhancers, the company announced yesterday. The contract, called the Thermal Omnibus, is a combined procurement designed to equip Army and Marine Corps forces with thermal imaging systems.
