CFM INTERNATIONAL, Cincinnati, said Gerard Laviec formally assumes the position of president and chief executive officer of the company. Most recently, he served as the CFMI S.A. marketing and sales senior VP and as chairman of Shannon Engine Support.
The full House has approved an intelligence authorization bill that ends several straight years of funding cuts, but the legislation's restructuring of the National Reconnaissance Office's budget has generated friction among lawmakers. The bill, approved Wednesday by a vote of 262-162, adds 1.3% to President Clinton's fiscal year 1996 intelligence budget request and is 1.7% over this year's intelligence budget, nudging it up toward the $30 billion mark.
McDonnell Douglas hopes to persuade NASA to back its ideas for a blended wing body jetliner, which would carry some 800 passengers at a fraction of today's cost, with an X-plane research program that could start in 1998.
One view of the future of U.S. Navy EW U.S. Marine Col. Nolan Schmidt, chief of tactical aircraft electronic warfare for Naval Air Systems Command, presented the following tables this week at the Association of Old Crows' annual convention in Washington, saying they represent his view of future Navy EW. Aircraft-related programs are expected to be in the inventory for at least 33% of the fleet. Ship- related programs are expected to be in the inventory for at least 66% of the fleet.
The Defense Dept. will have to upgrade the receiver capability of the Navy's EA-6B standoff jamming aircraft to allow it to respond more quickly to enemy threats, according to Tony Grieco, DOD's deputy director for electronic warfare in the acquisition and technology office.
AEL Industries, a supplier of electronic defense systems and subsystems, reported declines in net income and revenues for the second quarter, but increases for the first six months. The Lansdale, Pa., company said yesterday that net income for the second quarter ended Aug. 25, 1995, came to $327,000, or .08 per share, down from the $354,000 or .09 per share reported for the same period a year ago. Revenue for the second quarter of 1995 was $28,921,000, compared to $30,911,000 for the second quarter of 1994.
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Dickman, the U.S. Air Force's senior space acquisition officer, has been tapped to fill the newly created position of DOD space architect, the Defense Dept. said yesterday. Pentagon acquisition chief Paul Kaminski announced in March that he was creating the new multi-service position under Air Force oversight as part of DOD's efforts to improve space management (DAILY, March 24, page 445).
A Defense Dept. decision to buy Non-Developmental Airlift Aircraft wouldn't affect the use of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, contrary to what members in that community expect, according to Gen. Robert L. Rutherford, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, and Air Force Air Mobility Command. "The 747-400 can handle a lot of bulk cargo, but I don't see that as the real requirement right now," Rutherford told a group of defense writers yesterday in Washington. "The CRAF fleet can largely carry that bulk."
Changes in the reporting channels for the Pentagon's Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) and Dual Use Technology Policy office were announced yesterday by Paul Kaminski, the Defense Dept.'s acquisition and technology under secretary. In the same announcement John M. Bachkosky was named the new deputy under secretary for advanced technology.
JAPAN'S FS-X attack fighter, being jointly developed with the U.S., taxied for the first time Tuesday at the Air Self Defense Force's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, hitting 50 kph, Lockheed Martin reported yesterday.
The sale of Airborne Self Protection Jammers to South Korea is likely to move ahead soon, just as the U.S. is considering sending more of the electronic warfare systems to fighter units operating over Bosnia- Herzegovina.
Here is the latest manifest of U.S.-licensed commercial space launches and reentries, as published Sept. 1 by the Office of Commercial Space Transportation at the Dept. of Transportation. A total of 39 orbital launches are covered through 1998, plus the reentry of the recovery module of EER Systems' Meteor spacecraft. U.S. commercial space transportation manifest PAYLOAD (COUNTRY) LAUNCH COMPANY/ DESCRIPTION VEHICLE
Westinghouse Electric Corp. yesterday announced the team it has assembled to compete for the U.S. Navy's Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) program. It identified the teammates and their responsibilities as follows: -- Tracor Aerospace, which will handle the fiber optic towed decoy (FOTD) design, ALE-47 dispenser integration, and ALE-50 multiple platform launch controller interface design. -- Litton Applied Technology, which will provide the ALR-67(V) radar warning receiver and suite integration experience.
U.S. AIR FORCE Aeronautical Systems Center's Training System Product Group, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, plans to issue an RFP Sept. 27 for visual simulation systems to upgrade existing Air Mobility Command Aircrew Training Devices (KC-135R Operational Flight Trainers) and KC-10A Weapon System Trainers or other widebody aircraft. ASC said in a Sept. 12 Commerce Business Daily notice that a 60-month contract is planned.
The full Senate Appropriations Committee adopted a $13.8 billion fiscal 1996 NASA funding measure yesterday after dropping report language urging NASA to study multi-stage options to a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable launch vehicle (RLV).
Engineers and program managers working on McDonnell Douglas' X-33 reusable launch vehicle, or RLV, concept are confident they'll have the right answers next June when the company is due to present its business plan for the RLV to top NASA officials, although they admit it won't be easy.
Textron Inc. will acquire fastener manufacturer Elco Industries for about $180 million, the companies said yesterday. The acquisition should be completed in the fourth quarter. Elco, based in Rockford, Ill., had sales of $249 million for the last fiscal year. It makes and distributes fastening products and systems for the automotive, commercial, construction and "do-it-yourself" home markets.
U.S. use of Tomahawk cruise missiles and the move to use the F-117A stealth fighter aircraft in attacks on Bosnian Serb positions amount to "mission creep," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned. McCain, a former Navy pilot and a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday that U.S. and NATO forces are "escalating and may have to continue escalating" to force the Serbs to meet allied demands.
U.S. AIR FORCE Aeronautical Systems Center's Air Combat Training Systems (ACTS) Integrated Product Team (IPT), Eglin AFB, Fla., aims to issue a contract to upgrade the Decimomannu Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) System at Decimomannu AB, Sardinia, Italy. An RFP would be released in October and a contract for 14 months of work would be awarded in January, according to a Sept. 12 Commerce Business Daily notice.
U.S. AIR FORCE Air Combat Command will issue a draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) on about Oct. 31 for industry comment on Battle Management Training (BMT)-known previously as the Systems Training Program (STP). Comments on the draft are required by Nov. 30. ACC said in a Sept. 12 Commerce Business Daily notice that BMT "provides elements of the Theater Air Control System (TACS) and CONUS Air Defense System with a major portion of the training materials required to sustain combat readiness."
U.S. Air Force EF-111 tactical jamming aircraft stationed at Aviano Air Base, Italy, and supporting operations over Bosnia-Herzegovina, will be replaced by U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowlers from Squadron VMAQ-1. The EF- 111 replacement isn't related to the aircraft's scheduled retirement, but is the result of "competing requirements of warfighting CINCs," a USAF Air spokeswoman said Tuesday.
LORAL AEROSPACE SERVICES, Chesapeake, Va., was awarded a $9.3 million modification to an earlier U.S. Navy contract to exercise an option for logistical support services for the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) family of training devices. The Naval Air Warfare Center, Training Systems Division, Orlando, Fla., awarded the contract on Sept. 7.
Controllers managed to coax the orbiting Wake Shield Facility into action again yesterday, after a 24-hour cool-down period to restore attitude control and more than a few bad moments when a balky switch thwarted attempts to restart the molecular beam epitaxy process that is the heart of the free flyer's mission.
House conferees on the fiscal 1996 national security authorization are considering cutting $1.9 billion out of their readiness accounts as a way of getting down to the congressional budget resolution ceiling, congressional sources said yesterday. They said additional cuts in readiness beyond the $1.9 billion could open the way for the conferees to agree on accepting the House's add-on of $553 million for additional B-2 bombers and the Senate's shipbuilding add- ons, primarily for the LHD-7 amphibious assault ship and two additional DDG-51 destroyers.
