Hugo Fruehauf has been named to head the Defense Systems Group. Previously, Fruehauf has been president of EFRATOM Time and Frequency Products Inc., Ivine, Calif., and EFRATOM Elektronik GmbH, Hofolding (Munich) Germany, wholly owned subsidiaries of Datum, Inc., Anaheim, Calif.
Gary L. Denman, previously, corporate senior vice president for strategic planning, has been promoted to executive vice president and appointed to the newly established position of chief operating officer.
Rep. C.W. (Bill) Young (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Appropriations national security subcommittee, expressed doubt yesterday that a threatened White House veto of the $243 billion fiscal 1996 compromise defense appropriations bill would materialize. A published report quoted a senior White House official as saying that President Clinton would veto the bill because he objected to increasing defense spending while many of his domestic priorities were being cut.
JORDAN is interested in purchasing F-16s, and U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry said the Pentagon would discuss the matter. Perry met Jordan's King Hussein yesterday at the Pentagon. Talks between the two would focus on Jordan's general defense needs and specific weapons systems, like the F-16s, Perry told reporters before the meeting with Hussein.
Larry G. James, previously DSEG controller, has been appointed vice president. Steven D. Roemerman, former manager of interdiction weapons systems, was appointed vice president.
Anthony W. Ruggiero, who most recently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, N.Y., has joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Ruggiero succeeds James A. Riggs, who has retired after 30 years with the company.
NASA managers won't know until the end of the year what jobs are to be cut when Space Shuttle operations are shifted to a single prime contractor, but congressional critics of the space agency's attention to Shuttle safety in the streamlining process plan to hold a hearing on the issue before they adjourn at Thanksgiving.
The House-Senate fiscal 1996 defense appropriations conference report provided $745.6 million for national missile defense-not $670.6 as reported in The DAILY of Sept. 27 (page 473).
Geoffrey Livingston has joined the company's Public Affairs Department as a writer, publications and media. Previously, Livingston was editorial assistant of Consumer Electronic Network News (CENN), the EIA/Consumer Electronic Group's (CEG) monthly magazine.
Installation of electronics in the U.S. Air Force's first production Joint STARS aircraft is slated to begin at Northrop Grumman's Melbourne, Fla., facility. The company said the plane arrived at Melbourne Tuesday from another Northrop Grumman facility at Lake Charles, La., where it was converted from a commercial 707. At Melbourne, the aircraft will receive radar, operations and control, and communications systems.
Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas have received contracts totaling about $113 million for technology maturation under the Joint Aircraft Strike Technology (JAST) program. In the JAST Integrated Subsystem Technology (JIST) effort, the companies will carry out research and development "to integrate advanced power generation, distribution and utilization hardware for an integrated ground and flight test program," the Dept. of Defense said Sept. 25 in announcing the contracts.
Pratt&Whitney's F119 engine for the F-22 fighter requires half as many pieces of support equipment as current fighter engines, the company said yesterday. It said that 200 pieces are needed instead of 400, and that the resulting weight and quantity reduction lowers the cost to support powerplants deployed for combat. P&W estimated that 75% fewer loads of equipment would have to be moved by C-141 airlifter to support the F119 in combat for 30 days.
Procurement managers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center used streamlined procedures to pick an engineering and technical services contractor for its flight test program. Analytical Services and Materials, Inc., was picked for the $32.1 million fixed-price requirements plus award-fee contract, which will run from Oct. 2 through the end of fiscal 2000. The contract covers aerodynamics, flight dynamics, flight instrumentation, aircraft maintenance and mechanical fabrication on research aircraft, NASA said.
The relatively low level of the East Central European arms market over the next several years-only about $4 billion-makes it "hard to see how" countries there would "be in a position to make major [weapons] purchases," Hugh G. Hamilton, director of Arms Transfer and Export Control Policy for the State Dept. said yesterday in Alexandria, Va.
House-Senate defense appropriations conferees have agreed to slash the National Reconnaissance Office's fiscal 1996 budget further than originally planned because of reports that the agency has accumulated on the order of $1 billion in unspent appropriations.
Rockwell International has formed a new aerospace and defense business unit under John A. McLuckey, who was named president and chief operating officer of the new organization. Rockwell said yesterday that the unit, called Aerospace and Defense, is comprised of the former Defense Systems organization headed by McLuckey, and includes the Rocketdyne and Space Systems divisions.
Senators yesterday rejected a measure that would have killed funding for the International Space Station, voting 35-64 against an amendment to the fiscal 1996 NASA appropriation that would have cut all but $500 million of the $1.833 billion Station appropriation and used the funds for termination costs.
China flexes is economic muscles by making a number of small international aircraft deals rather than a few big ones, Condit says. CHINA is becoming more sophisticated about exercising the economic power inherent in aircraft orders, making more small deals rather than fewer big ones in order to maximize leverage, Boeing President Philip Condit told the Aero Club of Washington yesterday.
NASA plans to follow a parallel negotiating procedure with future procurements that it developed to inject "cost realism" into the bidding for the Earth Observing System (EOS) common spacecraft bus, boosting the score given for accurate cost estimates in deciding which bidder gets a contract.
The Design Bureau of General Machine-building (KBOM), which developed launch complexes for the Soyuz/Molniya and Proton launchers, will take full responsibility for operating the facilities when their transfer from Russia's Space Forces is completed by Jan. 1, 1997. The Moscow-based company has already established test centers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for Soyuz/Molniya and Proton operations. Transfer of launch facilities at Baikonur to support non-military operations was ordered by the Russian government in late 1994 (DAILY, Oct. 27, 1994, page 142).
The long-awaited creation of a Joint Space Management Board to integrate the space programs of the Defense Dept. and the intelligence community should be at hand very soon, the new deputy under secretary of defense for space (DUSD) said yesterday. Bob Davis, in his first public address since assuming the new DUSD position Aug. 6, said most of the issues in a draft charter for the new space management board have been settled.
Congressional defense appropriations conferees, trying to avoid a veto by President Clinton, approved $243 billion for the Pentagon in fiscal 1996, coming out closer to the Senate's recommendation of $242.7 billion than the House's number of $244.1 billion. Although the House had the higher number, it surrendered all but $300 million of that in conference.
