Franklin Pray has joined the company as vice president of CIT/Capital Finance, aerospace division, responsible for marketing the company's financial service portfolio to aircraft owners and operators in the Asia/Pacific region.
Jeff Kerridge has been named director of defense/intelligence programs within the Government Operations Department. John E. Lee has been hired as international channel sales manager. Cindy Peck has been named director of product engineering.
John J. Fitzgerald has been named corporate vice president and controller. Thomas M. Sanders has been named senior vice president, marketing and business development for the company's Information&Engineering Technology unit.
Senate defense appropriators, in the report accompanying their fiscal year 1998 defense bill, urge the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to closely evaluate the idea of using Minuteman boosters for a national missile defense (NMD) architecture. The appropriators propose an increase of $474 million to the administration's budget request for national missile defense, recommending a total of $978 million for the program.
Col. Steven W. Boutelle has been nominated by President Clinton for promotion to brigadier general. Boutelle has served as the project manager for Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems for the program executive officer for Command, Control and Communications Systems since August 1992. Maj. Gen. William H. Campbell has been nominated by President Clinton for promotion to lieutenant general. Campbell is currently the program executive officer for Command, Control and Communications Systems at Fort Monmouth, N.J.
The Pentagon has issued the draft request for proposal for the demonstration of Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles. The demonstration, slated to take place next year, is being funded largely with money Congress provided for fiscal 1997 specifically for the Canadair Puma UAV. But the UAV Joint Program Office and the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office got approval from Congress to use the money for a more generic VTOL UAV demonstration.
The chairman of the Pentagon's Compliance Review Group, which determines whether a theater missile defense system is restricted by the ABM Treaty, has told Congress the U.S. compliance process has not reduced the capability of any TMD system, although there was a one-year period when changes were made in the Theater High Altitude Air Defense System (THAAD) that were later reversed.
SAUDI ARABIA has asked to buy $1.1 billion worth of U.S. equipment for the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) under two separate foreign military sales deals, the Pentagon announced yesterday. In the larger of the two deals, the Pentagon would sell $1.075 billion worth of equipment including 130 90mm Turret Weapon Systems for Light Armored Vehicles, chassis upgrades and armaments. General Motors of Canada is the prime contractor.
John Fritch has been appointed director of material at Hughes Data Systems. Phillip T. LePore, president of Hughes Technical Services Company, will assume the additional position of acting president, Hughes Training, Inc. from Stuart I. Moore who retired June 30. Gene Turley has been appointed vice president for marketing and sales of Hughes Data Systems, a unit of Hughes Aircraft Company. Kaman Corp. Kent E. Hutchinson has been appointed senior vice president of Kaman Aerospace Corp. and Kaman Aerospace International Corp.
Joanne E. Braeunle has been named director, Imaging Products&Systems and vice president, Commercial&Government Systems. Robert J. Leonard has been appointed director of finance and vice president, Commercial&Government Systems.
Vance D. Coffman has been elected to the post of vice chairman of the Corporation, effective August 1, by the board of directors. John Voce has been appointed launch services director for Lockheed Martin Telecommunications.
Telecom Solutions Inc., Lake Forest, Calif., is being awarded a $5,674,524 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity service type contract for life cycle support of weapons systems, sub-systems, and devices including requirements analysis, design, acquisition, development, fabrication, manufacture, modification, test and evaluation, installation, integration and training with regard to weapon system laboratories, aircraft laboratories, trainers/simulators, facilities, electronic warfare systems, communications/networking systems, systems development/e
One of five Iridium satellites launched from California earlier this month has fallen silent, although Motorola engineers continue to try to reestablish contact with the spacecraft. Launched on a Delta II from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., July 9 (DAILY, July 10), the satellite was in a parking orbit when controllers lost contact last week. A spokesperson for Iridium LLC said yesterday controllers still were trying to determine the exact nature of the failure and to restore communications with the low Earth orbit platform.
Pioneer Rocketplane Corp. has signed a three-part agreement with Thiokol Corp. for the development of several upper stages for its proposed Pathfinder reusable launch vehicle, Pioneer announced yesterday. Pioneer, based in Denver, also elaborated on the design for Pathfinder, the company's entry in NASA's Bantam System Technology Project (DAILY, June 11). The reusable "rocketplane" will use a combination of jet and rocket engines to place payloads into space, taking off and landing like a plane (DAILY, March 10).
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded $227,816,346 as part of a $745,178,878 firm-fixed-price multi-year contract for a total of 180 UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopters. The contract calls for a quantity of 36 the first year, and 18 during each of the four succeeding program years. In addition, Project/System Management support, Technical Publications, and a variety of Mission Flexibility Kits will be included. The UH-60 helicopter is the U.S.
Boeing North American, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., is being awarded a $6,879,000 face value increase to a cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide for the Capstone Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation program in support of the AC-130U aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed February 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-94/C-0047, P000036).
U.S. Helicopter, Ozark, Ala., is being awarded a firm-fixed-price with cost reimbursable features contract with an estimated total of $24,711,656, for refurbishment of approximately 300 UH-1 helicopters in support of the U.S. Army, National Guard, Department of State, and Foreign Military Sales. Work will be performed in Ozark, Alabama, over a five year period on an as- needed basis by issue of individually funded delivery orders against a requirements-type contract, and is expected to be completed by July 18, 2002.
