Scott Nordhaus, who most recently served as regional sales director for DIRECTV, managing the Chicago office, has been named vice president, sales, for DIRECTV, Inc.
James E. Hailer has been appointed manager, legislative affairs. Most recently, Hailer was manager, congressional affairs for the American League for Exports and Security Assistance, Washington, D.C.
Robert P. Daigle, previously director, Westinghouse Corporate Information Services (WCIS), has been appointed assistant controller and director of corporate reengineering for Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Phillip Farmer, president and chief operating officer was elected to the additional posts of chairman and chief executive. Farmer succeeds John Hartley, who will retire June 30.
Val P. Peline, who recently retired from an executive position with Lockheed Corp., will join the company as president and chief executive officer effective June 1. He had been president of Lockheed Electronic Systems Group.
The Defense Dept. yesterday unveiled new acquisition rules to cut down lengthy program review times and documentation by having contractors and DOD officials work more closely earlier in major program developments, and by making oversight and review processes more flexible. A May 10 memorandum signed by Secretary of Defense William Perry laid out the following three DOD rules to take "immediate" effect: - Perform as many acquisition functions as possible, including oversight and review, using IPTs (Integrated Product Teams).
Jim Burgess, an engineer at Systems Research Labs, was awarded a patent for his invention of brake control system that prevents the skidding of a wheel on a surface.
U.S. AIR FORCE'S F-16 System Program Office will choose between Loral Systems Manufacturing Co. and Litton Systems' Applied Technology Div. for Lot VII production of the AN/ALR-56M(V) advanced radar warning receiver line replaceable units. "This will be the final purchase of system components and spare parts," the USAF's Aeronautical Systems Center said in a May 15 Commerce Business Daily notice. Proposals were solicited for 269 of the systems. The Lot VII buy includes options for Lots VIII and XI.
CFM International said its CFM56-7, which will power the Boeing 737- 600/700/800 series aircraft, has met "all pre-test predictions" in the seven hours it has accumulated since testing began April 28. The engine has achieved its rated thrust and completed power calibration and preliminary performance runs, CFMI said. It is scheduled for first flights on a modified Boeing 747 next January and on the 737-700 in early 1997 before entering service with Southwest that fall.
Theodore E. Martin has been elected to the board of directors of Unisys Corp. Effective July 1, 1995, Martin will be president and chief executive officer of Barnes Group, Inc.
Despite the predictions of some in the financial community, Boeing Chairman Frank Shrontz doesn't expect his competition in the worldwide market for long-haul widebody jetliners to drop out, telling reporters yesterday that "it's possible that all three [airframers] in this circumstance will survive."
Richard C. Ernst, Pratt&Whitney's (P&W) RL10E-1 project manager in the Atlas Reliability Enhancement Program, received NASA's Public Service Medal, the highest honor awarded by NASA to a non-government employee.
The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, is being awarded a $10,000,000 Firm-Fixed Price contract for long lead materials in support of 12 reengining kits for the KC-135 aircraft. Boeing Defense and Space Group Contract is expected to be completed September 1995. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One firm was solicited; one proposal received. The solicitation was issued in March 1995 and negotiations were completed in May 1995 This effort supports foreign military sales to Turkey (7 kits) and France (5 kits).
The U.S. Army will have to rely on innovation and integration of modern weapons system to improve its capabilities in the austere budgetary environment, Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the Army's departing Chief of Staff, said Friday. "Innovation in military organizations is not a function of money," Sullivan told a National Security Industry Association conference in Arlington, Va. "There may be a correlation between whether you can put it into being" and money, he said, but added that innovation could not stop because funds were low.
McDonnell Douglas' F-15D demonstrator completed testing of an ATARS reconnaissance suite in only two flights, and the company is looking more closely at development of an electronic warfare variant of the Eagle to replace the U.S. Air Force's EF-111 tactical jamming plane, an MDC official said.
The Pentagon has released a Defense Science Board Study on the role of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers that expresses strong support for the institutions and recommends eliminating their congressionally mandated salary caps, a recommendation likely to be controversial on Capitol Hill. Congress has been studying whether the role of FFRDCs could be reduced, or whether their tasks could be performed by DOD and the private sector.
House Science Committee Chairman Robert S. Walker (R-Pa.) is ready to rumble with NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin over the size of the space agency's budget in the next five years, but he doesn't expect much disagreement with Goldin over the way NASA plans to downsize. Walker told reporters yesterday that while he had not been briefed on the details of the NASA restructuring plan hammered out within the agency over the past few months, NASA's apparent approach matches his own priorities.
GTE Government Systems Corporation, El Segundo, California, is being awarded a $44,965,974 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract for contractor logistics support for the AN/GYQ-50(V) Intelligence Hose Processing System. Contrct is expected to be completed May 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (F09603-93/D-640-P00003).
Martin Marietta Electronics and Missiles, Orlando, Florida, is being awarded a $33,000,000 face value increase firm fixed price contract extends long lead funding for 18 Sharpshooter pods and 18 Navigation pods applicable to the Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) system for the F-16 aircraft, along with associated spares and support equipment. Contract is expected to be completed October 1995. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This effort supports foreign military sales to Egypt.
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded a $4,760,1290 firm fixed price (base-year) contract for the FY 95/96 foreign comparative testing of Russian M-31 Aerial Targets to fulfill the mission requirements of the Supersonic Sea Skimming Target (SSST). This contract contains options, which if exercised, will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under full and open competition and one offer was received.
Lockheed Martin is monitoring Air National Guard evaluations of an F-16 fighter equipped with an electro-optical reconnaissance pod. The company is providing the pod, sensor suite and ground station equipment to the Guard at no cost as one of several off-the-shelf options for replacement of the RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft. Lockheed Martin said the options take advantage of F-16 reconnaissance developments dating back to the 1980s.
