Lockheed Martin's share of McDonnell Douglas' win of the Dutch attack helicopter competition last summer is potentially worth $98 million. Lockheed Martin on Sept. 19 received a contract to supply targeting systems for the 31 AH-64D Longbow Apaches that McDonnell Douglas will build for the Dutch. Lockheed Martin's award could double in value from the initial figure of $49.4 million.
European cosmonaut/researcher Thomas Reiter has successfully run an Italian robotics experiment on Russia's Mir space station that could lead to a free-flying robot able to inspect and repair spacecraft like the International Space Station. Italy's Tecnospazio consortium said the experiment was conducted last Wednesday as part of Reiter's EuroMir mission to the Russian space station. The European cosmonaut is spending four an a half months on Mir in the second mission sponsored by the European Space Agency (DAILY, Sept. 6, page 356).
Telstar 402R, the replacement for an identical Lockheed Martin Astro Space communications satellite that failed shortly after launch a year ago, was working well and deploying on schedule after a Saturday launch aboard an Ariane 42L. A spokesman for satellite-owner AT&T, which assumed control of the platform shortly after its launch at 8:06 p.m. EDT, said Monday that the deployment was going "smoothly and quietly." "We have no reason to believe this one won't be 100% successful," he said.
HARRY HALAMANDARIS has been appointed to head Litton Industries' Electronic Warfare Systems Group, the company said yesterday. Halamandaris, 56, who was recently elected a corporate vice president of Litton, assumed the position formerly held by Michael R. Brown, 54, who was elected last week to the Litton board of directors and named executive vice president and chief operating officer of company. Litton said Halamandaris will retain his current responsibility for corporate and strategic planning.
Allied Signal Aerospace, Inc., Teterboro, New Jersey, is being awarded a $6,046,765 Firm Fixed Price contract for 32 displacement gyroscopes applicable to the navigation system on the F-5 aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed July 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 3 firms solicited and 1 proposal received. Solicitation began January 1995 and negotiations were complete September 1995. Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma is the contracting activity (F34601-95/C-0890).
Litton Computer Services, San Jose, California, is being awarded a $7,188,242 face value increase to a Firm Fixed Price contract for a hardware update to expand the memory capacity of the Reliability and Maintainability Information System (REMIS). Contract is expected to be completed January 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Materiel Systems Group, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity (F33600-86/C-7004). September 22, 1995
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orlando, Florida, is being awarded a $13,177,377 Cost Plus Award Fee contract for FY1995-1999 software and hardware development, operation and maintenance for the Theater Air Command and Control Simulation Facility at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The work will be performed at the 505th Command and Control Evaluation Group, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Contract is expected to be completed September 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
Associated Company, Incorporated, Wichita, Kansas, is being awarded a $6,420,999 Firm Fixed Price contract for various quantities of 8 types of cowling panels applicable to the engine on the B-52H aircraft. Contract is expected to be completed June 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 3 firms solicited and 2 proposals received. Solicitation began May 1995; negotiations were complete August 1995. Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma is the contracting activity (F34601-95/C-0788).
Rockwell International Corporation, Anaheim, California, is being awarded a $20,635,631 Cost Plus Award Fee contract for FY1996 continuous engineering support for the guidance and control systems on the Peacekeeper and Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles. Contract is expected to be completed September 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was 1 firm solicited and 1 proposal received. Solicitation began May 1995 and negotiations were complete August 1995.
The U.S. Air Force completed testing of an AN/APG-76 multimode radar to determine whether the system can meet an Air Combat Command requirement for a fighter synthetic aperture radar. The service hasn't finalized the target platform for the radar, but an industry official said the F-15E is the main contender to carry the pod- mounted system.
NASA has extended the Space Shuttle processing contract held by Lockheed Martin Space Operations and its Lockheed Corp. predecessor since 1983 for one more year instead of the three-year period originally planned, reflecting agency plans to fold the processing contract into a single Shuttle operations prime contract.
Rockwell International Corporation, Anaheim, California, is being awarded a $44,945,041 face value increase to a Cost Plus Award Fee contract for extension by ten months (until September 1998) and restructure of the Minuteman III Guidance Replacement Program Electronics Contract to meet the modified funding profile. This effort also definitizes acquisition of Strategic Missile Integration Complex hardware and software and Fault Tree safety analysis. Contract is expected to be completed September 1998.
NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to leave Kennedy Space Center today for a nine-month refit at Rockwell's Palmdale, Calif., facility, that will set it up for operations at the proposed International Space Station. Modifications include installation of a new external airlock designed for use at the Space Station. Discovery will also receive fittings for a fifth set of on-board cryogenic tanks to increase its mission duration capability by several days, NASA said in a status report.
Lockheed Martin Electronics and Missiles, Orlando, Florida, was awarded on September 14, 1995, a $49,373,411 modification to a firm fixed price with cost reimbursable provisions contract to exercise an option for production lot and service requirements for 30 Target Acquisition Designation Sights/Pilot Night Vision Sensors for the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida, and is expected to be completed by October 31, 2001. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The U.S. Air Force yesterday showed off a KC-135 tanker modified as the prototype of a command and control aircraft whose capabilities could be tailored to specific battlefield missions. The plane, on display at Andrews AFB, Md., and called "Casey 01," continues to serve as a tanker, carrying a full load of fuel. It is based at Offutt AFB, Neb.
Texas Instruments is developing an upgrade to the forward looking infrared (FLIR) systems of the AC-130H and AC-130U gunships flown by the U.S. Air Force's Special Operations Command. A contract from the AF's Aeronautical Systems Center for the Airborne Electro-Optics FLIR is initially funded at $9 million, but is expected to be valued at over $50 million.
Logicon, Incorporated, San Pedro, California, is being awarded a $23,795,302 face value increase to a Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for various quantities of seven software packages under the Integrated Computer-Aided Software Engineering (I-CASE) contract. The work will be performed at AT&T, Columbia, Maryland (60%); Logicon, Inc., Los Angeles, California (20%); and Logicon, Inc., Arlington, Virginia (20%). Contract is expected to be completed. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
Raytheon Co., threatening to abandon Massachusetts unless it wins some $175 million in concessions from employees and the state government, hinted that its defense units' presence is one of the few options available to the tens of thousands of young people in the state who won't attend college. The company paid a group of MIT professors led by MIT Industrial Performance Center Director Richard Lester to conduct a study of manufacturing's importance to the state, and released the results Friday.
REAR ADM. SCOTT SEARS (USN-ret.) has joined AT&T Advanced Technology Systems as director of its Integrated Undersea Surveillance Systems (IUSS) strategic business unit. He replaces Frank Dorsch, who will retire on Oct. 31 after 31 years with AT&T. Dorsch has led the IUSS unit for the past nine years. Sears, who retired from the Navy on Sept. 1, was most recently commander of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, R.I.
RENE ANSELMO, founder and chairman of PanAmSat Corp., died Sept. 20 at a hospital in Greenwich, Conn., after a long illness. He was 69. Anselmo led PanAmSat's creation of the world's first private global satellite communications constellation and was known for his feisty attacks on the privileges and immunities held by the Intelsat consortium.
A U.S. Air Force/Rockwell International/Honeywell team has successfully completed system design on the Minuteman ICBM Guidance Replacement Program (GRP), paving the way for an Aerospace Vehicle Equipment preliminary design review in December, Rockwell said.
Litton Industries would buy the guidance and navigation business of Hughes Electronics Corp.'s Delco operation under terms of a letter of intent signed by the two companies. Litton and Hughes said yesterday that the buy-at an undisclosed price- would speed Litton's program of acquisitions and help Hughes by spinning off what it considers to be non-strategic assets. It must be cleared by government agencies and is subject to a definitive agreement on terms of purchase.
Boeing Co. is delaying the scheduled Sept. 28 delivery of British Airways' first 777 airliner to sometime in October to complete additional testing of General Electric's GE90 engine, prompted by a greater-than- expected imbalance in a May 30 bird-strike test. Boeing also said the plane won't be certified upon delivery for Extended-range Twin-engine Operations (ETOPS), as had been hoped.
PanAmSat on Friday announced an initial public offering of 18,920,000 shares of its common stock at $17 per share. Proceeds from the $321 million sale would be applied for general corporate purposes, including the development and launch of the PAS-7 and PAS-8 satellites and the pursuit of international direct-to-home satellite opportunities.
