Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) and House National Security Committee member Frank Tejeda (D-Tex.) are slated to introduce a legislative package proposed by the Defense Dept. to increase outsourcing in a move Deputy Defense Secretary John White said will save the Pentagon billions of dollars.
Franklin Kramer, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO Policy, has been named assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs.
Adm. Stanley R. Arthurs, (USN, Ret.), is the recipient of the 1996 Admiral Arleigh A. Burke Leadership Award. He is currently vice president of Naval Systems for Loral Corp.
MICROGRAVITY COMBUSTION researchers have received more than $7 million in grants from NASA for work on fuel efficiency, pollution control and space propulsion, using agency drop towers, parabolic aircraft and sounding rockets. Twenty awards were announced last month.
The Navy is $15 billion short between fiscal year 1998 and 2003 of meeting the necessary funding levels to maintain the force called for in the Bottom Up Review, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Vice Adm. Thomas J. Lopez said yesterday. The service discovered the funding "bow wave" during ongoing program objective memorandum discussions for the FY '98-03 period, Lopez said at the Navy League Symposium in Washington.
The Navy purposely is leaving the next-generation surface combatant family of ships (SC-21) "ill defined" to avoid locking in today's technologies, Rear Adm. Daniel J. Murphy, Jr., director of the Navy's Surface Warfare Div., told the Navy League Symposium yesterday. A contract award for SC-21 is slated for fiscal year 2003. Meanwhile, the service's Arsenal Ship will be a springboard to SC-21, Murphy said. That program is on the "fast track," he noted.
Kenneth J. McNamara, who most recently served as senior vice president of business development at Hughes-Avicom International, has been named chief executive officer of HAI.
Loral Defense Systems is pitching its 420K aerostat or a variant thereof for the Army's new aerostat cruise missile defense program. Joseph Huber, Loral's aerostat program director, told reporters Tuesday that he is "aggressively pursuing the aerostat cruise missile defense program," noting that there is "a real mission for a lighter-than- air solution."
A team of former National Reconnaissance Office officials and experts from elsewhere in the U.S. Intelligence Community is conducting an internal review of the NRO in the wake of recent shakeups at the spy satellite agency.
GE Aircraft Engines' growth version of the GE90, the 92,000-lbst. GE90-92B, successfully completed a 150-hour block test on March 19, clearing the way for medium birdstrike testing to start soon, GE reports. It's the first growth step for the new GE90, and GE hopes to win U.S. certification of the engine by mid-1996. Some 80% of the testing was already completed during development of the basic 84,700 lbst. GE90-85, so program managers are confident they can get the growth program through quickly.
The Army is trying to recover two of the six years it lost in the Theater High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) program by using a variety of streamlining approaches instead of increased funding, the Army's top uniformed procurement official said Tuesday.
Gen. Johnnie E. Wilson, took command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) on March 27, replacing Gen. Leon E. Salomon, who is retiring after an Army career of more than 37 years. Wilson, who was promoted to four-star, had been the Army's deputy chief of staff for logistics since February 1994.
Steven J. Walker, previously director of the Marine Traffic Management business, Lockheed Martin Ocean, Radar&Sensor Systems, Syracuse, N.Y., was named vice president of operations.
David P. Molfenter, president of Magnavox Electronic Systems Co., has been named vice president of Hughes Aircraft Co. He also joins the senior management of Hughes' Radar and Communications Systems (RCS) segment as a deputy segment executive.
Only a series of coincidences helped keep three key aerospace and aviation CEOs off an Air Force 737 that crashed yesterday in Croatia carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who was leading a commercial delegation through the war-torn region. Brown and eight CEOs remained unaccounted for at nightfall there.
The Pentagon's new plan to increase the privatization of depot-level maintenance, which would seek legislative relief from laws mandating that 60% of maintenance and repair work go to government depots, is already running to opposition from the congressional Depot Caucus. Reps. James Hansen, (R-Utah) and Glen Browder (D-Ala.), cochairmen of the bipartisan caucus of lawmakers representing districts where government depots are located, said yesterday the Pentagon's upcoming report on depot maintenance fails to address a number of issues.
James Sweeney has been appointed vice president, business development for Smiths Industries Aerospace, Defense Systems North America. Prior to joining the company, Sweeney was employed by GE Aerospace in various business and strategic development positions.
The Air Force 737 carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown that crashed yesterday while on an instrument approach into Croatia's Dubrovnik Airport was well off the airport's two published instrument approaches, and the crash site was nearly two miles beyond the runway that was the pilot's target.
Robert J. Schlaefli, previously manager, components products, Eaton Corp., Microwave Products Division, was appointed president of ST Microwave, California.
Faris Gaffney was named vice president of commercial communications systems. Prior to joining IEC, Gaffney was with Scientific-Atlanta as vice president and product line manager of Mobile and Wireless Systems.
Robert B. Alleger, Jr., who most recently served as vice president of systems support services, Lockheed Martin, Colorado Springs, Colo., has been named president of the Aerospace Technology unit, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
Robert L. Meyers was named chief financial officer and executive vice president for direct broadcast satellite entertainment service. Meyers joins DIRECTV from Hughes Electronics Corp., where he served as director of corporate financial planning and investor relations.
