A team headed by BAE Systems Applied Technologies, part of BAE Systems North America, won a 10-year, $454.4 million System Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA-II) contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). "This award greatly expands our engineering and acquisition support to the FAA," said Bruce Hamilton, president of BAE Systems Applied Technologies. "We look forward to continuing our solid relationship with the FAA and to providing quality products and services during the life of this important contract."
Lorrie A. Secrest has been named as vice president, Communications for the company's Space&communications Group. Matthew J. de Haye has been named vice president, International Communications
Dennis Tito, the California businessman who is paying his own way to fly to the Mir space station next year, began training for the flight yesterday at Russia's Star City. Tito, 59, received his medical certificate from the panel of doctors that approve cosmonauts for space flight, according to MirCorp, the Holland-based company formed to link commercial users of Mir to the station's Russian operators.
Milo W. Hyde has been named vice president, Systems&Analysis Group. George P. Fox has been named vice president, Electronics Systems Group. Frank Otto has been named vice president, Integrated Systems&Structures Group.
Walter Lewis has been appointed regional director of marketing and sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Tom Carroll has been named manager, commercial sales.
Citing the tidal wave of rulemaking since the accident, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said that its final report on the crash of TWA 800 four years ago will not include any recommendations to reduce fuel tank flammability. Instead, the board said it will encourage continued studies of fuel tank system safety, and closely monitor rules proposed by U.S. regulators that address short- and long-term fuel system safety concerns.
Computer Sciences Corporation is teamed with DEL-JEN Inc. of Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., and TECOM Inc. of Austin, Tex., on a five-year support deal, worth up to $352 million, at Lackland AFB, Tex. The three companies have formed a joint venture, of which CSC is the managing partner, dubbed Lackland 21st Century Services Consolidated (L21st CSC).
Astronics Corp.'s Aerospace and Electronics segment won three orders worth a total of $5.6 million for the U.S. Air Force's F-16 night vision program. "These contracts represent an important step in the execution of our strategy for the Aerospace and Electronics segment," said Peter J. Gundermann, president of Aerospace and Electronics. "The USAF will spend a lot of money maintaining the F-16 for many years to come, and we are well positioned to be a major player in this activity."
Litton Industries' PRC Inc. subsidiary will develop and manage the Joint Battlespace Infosphere Distributed Testbed (JBI-DT), intended to improve the performance and reduce the life-cycle costs of command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C2ISR) systems. PRC will carry out the work under a five-year contract with an initial potential value to Litton of $25 million. The contract was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate.
Lockheed Martin said it delivered the first of 22 C-130Js to the Italian Air Force in Pisa, Italy, on Aug. 16. The second aircraft is to be delivered this Thursday, with four more to follow this year. The first C-130J, featuring receiver-tanker capabilities, was ferried from Lockheed Martin's Marietta, Ga., facility via the Azores Islands by a joint Lockheed Martin/Aeronautica Militare Italiana crew. As the C-130Js have already been certified, they will begin operational flying shortly after arrival.
Brown&Root Services, Arlington, Va., won a $10 million increment as part of an $81.8 million contract - with a cumulative total of $283.9 million if all options are exercised - to help Russia dismantle ICBMs. The Pentagon said the company will analyze, plan, develop, integrate, manage, and ensure completion of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program's Integrated Liquid-fuel ICBM Project.
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration-Owego, N.Y., has received a 26-month, "multi-million pound" contract from the U.K. Ministry of Defense to undertake an assessment phase for the British Army and Royal Marines on the Soothsayer Electronic Warfare system.
Engineered Support Systems Inc. reported substantial growth in the third quarter of fiscal 2000. Revenues rocketed up 146% to $93.3 million and net income jumped 102% to $3.8 million, or $0.52 a fully diluted share, compared to $1.9 million, or $0.27 per fully diluted share for the same period a year ago.
BFGoodrich Aerospace reported winning a contract from Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group to supply spoiler assemblies and related spare parts for the 737-300, -400 and -500 Classic series of airplanes. The three-year contract, the value of which wasn't disclosed, follows a contract signed last January under which BFGoodrich is supplying thrust reversers and spares for the same series of aircraft.
COGNEX CORP., Natick, Mass., closed a $1.25 million OEM deal with South Korea's Samsung Techwin, formerly Samsung Aerospace Industries, to supply machine vision systems over the next two years.
PACIFIC AEROSPACE&ELECTRONICS' Interconnect Div. won an order worth about $1.1 million from Lockheed Martin to supply X-band radar electronic modules. The modules use the Wenatchee, Wash.-based company's thermal transfer interconnect packaging technology.
Sales of F-16s and other aircraft to foreign countries helped the United States keep its lead as a supplier in international arms transfer agreements and deliveries last year, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service.
Dassault Aviation, Thomson-CSF Detexis, SNECMA Moteurs and Matra BAe Dynamics France have finalized a deal with the Greek Ministry of Defense for 15 Mirage 2000-5 Mark 2 jets. The French aerospace and defense companies have also been contracted to modernize the country's present fleet of Mirages. Greece's 10 Mirage 2000s will be upgraded to the Mark 2 standard by Hellenic Aerospace Industry. The deals also include defense system supplies for the Mirage 2000-5.
Hawker Pacific Aerospace turned in a narrower loss for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, $679,000, compared to a loss of $2.98 million for the same period a year ago, although gross margins were squeezed by higher financial and operating costs.
Table details SAR programs as of June 30 Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) programs as of June 30, 2000, are listed in the following table, released by the U.S. Dept. of Defense (DAILY, Aug. 22). Dollar values are in million. Weapon Base System Year ARMY: ABRAMS UPGRADE 95 ATACMS-BAT 91 ATIRCM/CMWS 96 BRADLEY UPGRADE 94
