Elizabeth (Libby) J. Keefer, previously, deputy general counsel, was promoted to general counsel. She succeeds Judith R. Nelson, who has announced her retirement.
The company announced the following new members to its divisional leadership teams: Bll Tankersley, vice president of Space Business Development of the Space and Electronics Systems Group (SESG). Lawrence Schulman, vice president, business development, for Intelligent Transportation Systems Robert W. Davis, vice president of program development, Advanced Systems Group.
The company announced the following appointments: Dean M. Flatt, vice president and general manger of Guidance and Control Systems. Rick Bennett, vice president of Health, Safety and Environment. Raymond Wallace, vice president of business development for Government Electronics Systems.
The House National Security Committee has signed off on an Administration request to reprogram $659.6 million in fiscal year 1996 funding to pay for operations in Bosnia, but said the Pentagon can't cut certain weapon programs to come up with the money. "In an effort to help avoid a fourth quarter readiness problem, particularly for the Army, the committee interposes no obligation to the proposed reprogramming increases," HNSC Chairman Floyd Spence (R-S.C.) said in a July 11 letter to Defense Secretary William Perry.
GERMANY has asked to buy four U.S. Mk.-41 Vertical Launch Systems and related equipment for $87 million. The Dept. of Defense notified Congress of the request Wednesday. "The missile launchers will be installed on new construction frigates and are intended for use with Standard and Seasparrow missiles as the principal air defense armament of these new vessels," DOD said. Lockheed Martin Aero and Naval Systems, Baltimore, will be the prime contractor.
Eddy W. Hartenstein, president of DIRECTV, Inc., and Pradman P. Kaul, president and chief operating officer of Hughes Network Systems, Inc., have been elected corporate vice presidents of the Hughes Electronics Corp.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS/MARTIN MARIETTA Joint Venture will carry out R&D on a tandem warhead pre-planned product improvement to the Javelin missile system. U.S. Army Missile Command said in a July 3 Commerce Business Daily notice that "The Alternate Main Charge Warhead - Full Caliber (AMCW-FC) will be tested, analyzed, qualified and integrated into the JAVELIN Missile System." It said, "The requirement is to improve the Javelin Weapon System lethality."
NASA'S DC-XA subscale single-stage-to-orbit prototype is set to fly for the fourth time Friday afternoon at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The lightweight vertical takeoff and landing rocket is slated to fly for two minutes 20 seconds, reaching an altitude of 4,100 feet and moving 2,800 feet laterally, tipping its nose 60 degrees in two directions.
The Pentagon has warned it won't be able to link weapons with sensor technologies if Congress fails to restore funding eliminated in the House version of the fiscal 1997 defense authorization bill for the Joint Staff C4I for the Warrior (C4IFTW) program.
China selected Aero International Asia (AIA) as its western partner in a $2 billion program to build a 100-seat jetliner, AIA announced yesterday. Singapore Technologies is also involved in the project. China had been working with South Korea on the deal, but talks failed about a month ago.
Republican lawmakers are giving the Administration until early next week to restructure its theater missile defense program. If it's not done by then, they said yesterday, a lawsuit will be filed in U.S. District Court against President Clinton and Defense Secretary Perry for not complying with the fiscal year 1996 defense authorization act. Deputy Defense Secretary John White cancelled a scheduled meeting with GOP lawmakers and their lawyers yesterday to discuss the lawsuit, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) told reporters yesterday.
DERLAN INC., Santa Ana, Calif., will produce landing gear systems for the Black Hawk helicopter under a multi-year contract valued at $13.6 million from Sikorsky Aircraft. The work will be carried out through 2002, according to Derlan Industries Ltd., Toronto.
The U.S. Air Force has decided to spend about $16 million for programmed depot maintenance of some EF-111 tactical jamming aircraft in fiscal 1997, a move that would allow the planes to operate through at least the year 2000. The last round of depot visits for the planes had been planned for fiscal '96. Under this plan, they would retire in FY '98. But five of the planes are now slated for depot maintenance in FY '97 in addition to the nine aircraft scheduled for maintenance this year, according to an Air Force document.
Members of the Senate Appropriations VA, HUD and independent agencies subcommittee voted yesterday to restore $100 million of $200 million cut from NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program in the House, setting a $13.7 billion overall spending mark for the U.S. space agency in fiscal 1997.
LITTON INDUSTRIES' Guidance&Control Systems Div. won a $41.3 million U.S. Navy contract for repair and logistics support of AN/ASN-92(v) navigation systems used on F-14 fighters, S-3 antisubmarine and E-2C surveillance aircraft. The company said the two-year contract includes options over three more years that could raise the value of the work to $95.1 million. Litton said it has delivered more than 2,000 of these systems since 1970 for the U.S. Navy, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Egypt and Israel.
ALLIEDSIGNAL INC., Teterboro, N.J., will repair components of the Avionics Intermediate Shop for the F-15 fighter under a $7.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force's San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Kelly AFB, Tex. The Dept. of Defense announced the award on July 1.
HARRIS CORP.'S Information Systems Div. won a $72.5 million contract from the FAA for weather and radar processors for en route, long-range radar facilities. The company will develop, install and support 24 Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) systems at air route traffic control centers and the air traffic control system command center. It will also provide a lease service for immediate replacement of the Meteorologist Weather Processor system now in use at the facilities.
BFGOODRICH Avionics Div., Grand Rapids, Mich., has been chosen by Raytheon Aircraft to provide avionics for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) under a contract valued at about $36 million, assuming all 711 of the planes are procured by the U.S. Navy and Air Force. BFGoodrich said yesterday it will supply emergency standby attitude indicators, emergency power packs and collision warning systems.
REAR ADM. LYLE G. BIEN has been nominated to become deputy commander in chief and chief of staff of U.S. Space Command, and vice commander in chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson AFB, Colo. Bien, who is also being nominated for appointment to the grade of vice admiral, is now commander of Carrier Group Seven in San Diego.
A new pressure test on the first U.S. pressurized module for the International Space Station produced no surprises this week, but a final decision on adding struts to stiffen the structure remains in the future, a Boeing spokesman said yesterday. Station Node 1 was pressurized to 18 psi on Monday, more than the 14.7 psi normal operating pressure scheduled for the hardware but not yet to the 22 psi level that will meet the requirement of holding shape when pressurized to 1.5 times the operating level.
LOCKHEED MARTIN FEDERAL SYSTEMS, Manassas, Va., received a $15.1 million sole source contract from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command to upgrade the AN/USQ-78(V) display control set for the P-3C Update III aircraft. The award was announced June 24.
The U.S. Army is likely to increase its investment in the exploitation of hyperspectral imagery even as its funding for space research is getting tighter, according to the chief scientist of the service's Space and Strategic Defense Command. Darrell W. Collier told The DAILY in an interview in his Arlington, Va., office that "we are, like a lot of people, interested in hyperspectral imagery. We believe that there's a great deal that can be done with that."
AAR CORP., Elk Grove, Ill., said David P. Storch has been elected chief executive officer. Storch, who has been president and chief operating officer of the company since 1989, will succeed Ira A. Eichner on Oct. 9. Eichner, the company's founder, will remain chairman of the board. Eichner, 69, founded AAR in 1951 to distribute aircraft radios and instruments.
Conferees on the fiscal 1997 defense authorization have been given an ambitious, time-driven schedule that will seek to wrap up the conference and clear both the House and Senate before the August recess, which starts Aug. 3, congressional sources said yesterday.
