David D. Harrison has been named executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer of Coltec Industries. He also was elected to the company board of directors.
The company announced the following promotions, as part of a major reorganization: Bob Barker, named group vice president of the company's new Flight Control&Hydraulic Systems Operation. Frank Nichols, appointed group vice president of the new Fluid Management&Control Systems Operation. Ed Arnold, named group vice president of marketing.
Caleb B. Hurtt was elected to the company's board of directors. Hurtt was president and chief operating officer of Martin Marietta Corp. until his retirement in 1989.
The company announced the following promotions: Frank S. Marchilena, assistant general manager, operations. Thomas C. Ligon, manager of Naval Systems. Jack R. Kelble, RES laboratory manager. James R. Wade, manager, command, control, communication and surveillance programs for RES and will be responsible for the general management of those programs. Steven S. Teel, director of marketing for RES. Robert P. Constantino, director of strategic planning for RES.
Reconfigurable simulators are being sought to support U.S. Army helicopters. The simulators, intended to reduce training costs and improve unit readiness at the relatively low cost of about $1 million each, would go into service in January 1998, according to an Aug. 21 Commerce Business Daily notice.
Michael J. DeHaemer has been named managing director. He will be installed on Jan. 1, 1997 at ASM's World Headquarters in Materials Park, Ohio. DeHaemer succeeds Edward L. Langer, who will retire after 30 years of service, effective Dec. 31.
Christine Anderson has been named head of the Space and Missiles Technology Directorate at the Air Force Phillips Laboratory. Col . (Brig. Gen. select) Charles L. Johnson II is program director for Aeronautical Systems Center's C-17 System Program Office (SPO). Maj. Gen. (Select) Donald Cook was selected commander of Twentieth Air Force, replacing Maj. Gen. Bob Parker, who has retired.
Mark Lasker was appointed president and director general of Howmet, S.A., Paris, France. He will also retain his responsibilities as senior vice president for International Operations with Howmet Corp., Greenwich, Conn.
The company announced the following appointment: Jerry Rockstroh, director of international procurement. Michael Chan, director of manufacturing training. Tim McClung, Space Station Hybrid manager. David S. Yaney, general manager of the Microelectronics and Technology Center.
The Russian government must approve the Russian-American Observational Satellite (RAMOS) program because the U.S. will not carry it on its own, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization officials say.
Terry L. Tooley has joined the company's Oakland, New Jersey-based Military Systems division as vice president, airborne systems. Frank Tortorelli, who most recently served as director, Army communications systems with E-Systems, Inc., a unit of Raytheon Corp., was named senior vice president, Army business, for the Electronic Systems Group (ESG) based in Gaithersburg, Md.
Tommy Guttman has been appointed United States director of marketing and business development for Israel Aircraft Industries Bedek Aviation Group. He previously headed the North American desk at Bedek's headquarters at Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS said David W. Welp has been named president of its Systems Group, which includes the Defense Systems&Electronics and Communications&Electronics Systems units. Welp had been executive vice president and deputy of the Systems Group, and manager of the Advanced Programs Div. Before that, he led the group's Business Development Div. Welp joined TI in 1978.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans an investment of about $20 million to improve warfighter access to timely information, according to an Aug. 19 Commerce Business Daily notice.
Frank Cappuccio has been named vice president of Surveillance and Command Programs (formerly known as Navy Program) at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems. He succeeds Tom Burbage, who heads the Lockheed Martin-Boeing F-22 program. Bill Bernstein, who most recently served as vice president of C-130 production, was named vice president of Hercules Programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems.
Over the past 10 years, sales by Canada's aerospace industry have grown 150% - four times faster than those of the U.K., the second-best performer - and Canada is poised to pass Germany and Japan to become the fourth-largest aerospace manufacturing power by the end of the decade, according to a study by auditors and consultants Deloitte Touche.
The U.S. Army is getting ready to fly its RAH-66 Comanche helicopter prototype in what will be only its second flight since January, Gilbert Decker, the service's acquisition chief, told The DAILY in an interview yesterday at the Pentagon. He said a series of problems that have kept the helicopter on the ground are "virtually all fixed." And, despite a break of more than seven months, there is no impact on the flight test schedule. Because the program has been adjusted in recent years, there is margin in the schedule, he said.
South Korea's Samsung Aerospace, hungry to jump in to the small 100- seat class jetliner market, resumed talks with Dutch officials this week that could lead to acquiring bankrupt small-aircraft specialist Fokker, officials with the Dutch Economics Ministry confirmed yesterday.
NASA's existing plans for the robotic exploration of Mars are generally well-suited to find evidence of life, although minor adjustments may be needed in mission instrumentation and more advanced rovers would speed the search, according to scientists who are reevaluating the plan in light of the possibility that fossil life originated there.
The Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office has finished the standards handbook for the Joint Airborne Signals Intelligence Architecture (JASA) and is making the design guidelines available to industry electronically. The JASA standards working group concluded the design standards last month and has just recently made the handbook available to industry with a secret security clearance, a DARO official told The DAILY. The handbook is accessible on the Pentagon's Intelligence Link computer network.
Northrop Grumman is protesting the U.S. Air Force's award of the $620 million DOD/FAA Digital Airport Surveillance Radar, or DASR, program to Raytheon (DAILY, Aug. 15), and work on the contract is on a 90-day hold while General Accounting Office bid protest officials examine Northrop Grumman's complaint. The company filed its protest - B-274204 at GAO - on Monday and said in a prepared statement Tuesday night that it took the action after a debriefing last week, in which it found "errors" and "inconsistencies" in the evaluation process.
TWO CONTRACTORS on the U.S. Air Force's F-22 fighter program were recognized for their work during the past six months. Lockheed Martin reported that Fairchild Defense Div. of Orbital Sciences Corp., Germantown, Md., was named Outstanding Team Player, and that Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Electronic Sensors and Systems unit, Linthicum, Md., was named Small Business Advocate. The awards were presented by Tom Burbage, Lockheed Martin VP and F-22 general manager, on behalf of the U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin/Boeing team developing the aircraft.
Efficient operations may count as much as technological breakthroughs in adding up whether a reusable launch vehicle (RLV) can be profitable in the coming century, according to Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Norman Augustine, whose company is building the X-33 RLV prototype for NASA. Augustine told Aviation Week Group editors last week that it will take cost-cutting by "factors of several" to make a commercial RLV fly, and to get to that point advances need to be made in both the technical and the operations arenas.
