The U.S. share of the international arms market could rise to as much as 59% by 2004, predicts a Defense Dept. study on international conventional arms trade. While the U.S. averaged a market share of 20% between 1981 and 1988, it now controls 53% of the international arms market, said the study, which was released Wednesday.
The head of U.S. Space Command told Congress yesterday that a consensus is building for the Space-Based Infrared (SBIR) system as a replacement for the Defense Support Program to deal with proliferating tactical missiles, many of which are harder to detect because their motors burn dimmer and shorter.
Steven J. Cox, previously corporate counsel, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), San Diego, Calif., was named vice president of business affairs and general counsel for DIRECTV, Inc.
Sloppy accounting and management of defense programs remains among the most intractable of the federal government's bureaucratic problems, and was singled out yesterday by the General Accounting Office as one of six so- called "high risk" areas of government spending that will come in for especially intensive GAO review over the next two years.
LOCKHEED MISSILES&SPACE CO., Sunnyvale, Calif., will cut 800 jobs from its workforce by the end of June. Vance Coffman, executive vice president of Lockheed Corp. and acting president of LMSC, said "we must effect further streamlining of our ways of doing business." He also said that "further reductions of a similar magnitude could be necessary" for the second half of 1995.
Margaret E. Grayson, who most recently served as vice president of finance and chief financial officer of CD Radio, Inc., was appointed chief financial officer of Spacehab, Inc.
President Clinton is preparing to sign an executive order that will pave the way for the first public release of photographs taken by U.S. spy satellites, sources said yesterday.
House National Security Chairman Rep. Floyd Spence (R-S.C.) announced yesterday that he has asked Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the procurement subcommittee, and Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), chairman of the research and development subcommittee, to lead the committee's efforts in missile defense programs.
Edward P. Barry Jr., was appointed vice president of Integrated Inertial Navigation Systems/Global Positioning Systems (INS/GPS) for the company's Autonetics Electronic Systems Division. Clayton M. Jones has been named senior vice president, government operations&international for Rockwell International Corp.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jerry M. Boorda, making the case for the SSN-23 Seawolf submarine, testified yesterday that the Russians have six submarines quieter than the 688I-class attack submarine and will have an additional six by 2010. "We should have subs at sea that are quieter than them," Boorda told the House National Security Committee in appealing for the fiscal 1996 request of $1.653 billion for the SSN-23.
The House yesterday approved a $3.2 billion fiscal 1995 defense supplemental for readiness by a vote of 262-165 after rejecting a Democratic substitute that would have cut the funding to the requested $2.5 billion. The substitute would have directed the secretary of defense to make the cuts as he sees fit instead of the hit list compiled at the direction of the House Republican leadership, which insisted that the supplemental be balanced dollar for dollar with spending rescissions.
Robert A. Kamrath has joined the staff of Tracor Applied Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Tracor, Inc., as program manager of the Information Security (INFOSEC) Program Office.
The second in a series of five advanced U.S. weather satellites built by Space Systems/Loral has been scheduled for launch on May 19 from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla. NOAA-J, which will be renamed GOES-9 once in orbit, will support the dual-satellite geostationary observing system of the Commerce Dept.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It will join GOES- 8, which was launched last April 13 as the first of the new satellites, which will provide more precise and timely weather observation and atmospheric measurement data.
Jon Kutler, president of Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc., has been appointed to Congress' Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on The Future Space Launch Vehicle Industry.
The company has announced the following new managerial appointments: Joseph Ben-Shalom, vice president and chief financial officer of Tadiran. Bnayahu Shemesh, vice president and chief accounting and control officer. Moshe Horowitz, president of Tadiran Electrical Appliances Industries Ltd.
NASA's Ames Research Center is offering as much as $14 million in grants for concept and technology studies to support the creation of a national Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) research program, according to a Feb. 21 Commerce Business Daily. Grant winners from industry and academia will help develop an AATT research plan and present it to a high-level steering committee and non- advocate review in June 1996, according to the CBD notice. Winners will also support tradeoff studies and evaluations during the program if it proceeds.
PENTAGON ACQUISITION CHIEF Paul Kaminski yesterday approved 27 acquisition reform recommendations, including 18 to streamline the competitive source selection process. The recommendations, part of a process action team report on the defense procurement process, also included two suggestions for implementing a "procurement wisdom system," or method for sharing best practices, and seven proposals for improving the sole source procurement process.
Louis J. Valerio has been named vice president and controller. Prior to joining Westinghouse, Valerio was a senior vice president for finance/corporate finance, United Airlines.
Eric L. Steiner, president of Camloc/RAM Products Division, has been appointed president of Fairchild Fasteners, a newly created business sector combining all of Fairchild's worldwide fastener operation.
George K. Webster was promoted to senior vice president and Edward F. Crowell has been promoted to vice president, human resources and administration at Miltope Corp., a subsidiary of Miltope Group Inc.
Peter W. Thonis, who most recently served as director of worldwide public relations, PC businesses for IBM, has joined the company as vice president of communications.
Aviall Caledonian Engine Services has announced executive appointments: Peter Muirhead, production director. John Horsburgh, director and general manager of CF6. David Crews, general manager of CFM/Accessories/Test.
