Cecil W. Schneider has been named president of the Society. Peter Z. Bulkeley has been named second vice president. Keith M. Gardiner has been named third vice president. Ronald P. Harrelson has been named president-elect of the Society. Marcus B. Crotts has been named secretary/treasurer.
Paul C. Bavitz has been appointed sector vice president, business strategy and development at the new Integrated Systems and Aerostructures (ISA) Sector in Dallas. Patrick C. Mullaney has been appointed to the new position of director of communications at the ISA Sector. Philipp F. Schweizer has been named director of science and technology at the Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector in Pittsburgh, Pa. James R. Stark has been appointed to the new position of director of marketing for Western Europe in London.
A Pentagon study has concluded that a sea-based national missile defense system is technically feasible and could supplement a land-based NMD at a cost of up to $19 billion, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Director Lt. Gen. Lester Lyles told lawmakers. Last week, Lyles told members of Senate Armed Services Committee's strategic forces subcommittee about the Pentagon's overall conclusion on the sea-based NMD issue, but provided few details.
A brewing trade war between the U.S. and the European Union over hushkitted jets is a lose-lose situation that will cost both sides money and jobs if a solution is not found, John Douglass, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, told reporters yesterday in Washington.
Werner Hafelfinger has joined the company as vice president, operations, responsible for operations of the U.S. and European Aerospace Groups and the Electronics Group.
ICO GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS spacecraft will be launched on an Atlas IIAS and a Russian Proton rocket under a new launch services agreement between International Launch Services and Hughes Space and Communications International (HSCI). Both the Atlas and Proton ICO launches are scheduled for the second quarter of 2000. HSCI, which is supplying Hughes HS 601 spacecraft on orbit for ICO, already has scheduled four other ICO launches through International Launch Services - three on Protons and one on an Atlas.
James L. Murdy has been named to the board of directors. He also serves as the company's executive vice president, finance and administration, and CIO.
The board of directors of Elbit Systems Ltd., Haifa, Israel, approved a tender offer for all outstanding shares of Cyclone Aviation Products Ltd. for about $10 million, Elbit reported. Cyclone, of Karmiel, Israel, provides maintenance and logistics services and support to aircraft and helicopter operators, and makes aircraft structures and assemblies.
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, Fort Worth, Tex., has modified the first Korean F-16 with the AN/ALQ-165 Airborne Self-Protection Jammer (ASPJ). The aircraft was accepted on schedule on Feb. 26, the company reported. Korea is the first international customer to use ASPJ on the F-16. The aircraft will undergo testing in an anechoic chamber at Fort Worth and then be ferried to Edwards AFB, Calif., for several months of flight testing.
Iridium LLC is going after the "vertical market" of industries and government agencies that use mobile telephone services provided by Inmarsat, promising "aggressive pricing" to attract business that might otherwise go to the international cooperative.
Glenn E. Cunningham has been named deputy director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Exploration Directorate in Pasadena, Calif. Richard Cook will succeed Cunningham as manager of NASA's Mars Surveyor Operations Project. Barbara Wilson has been named program manager for the Center for Space Microelectronics Technology at JPL and chief technologist. L.S. "Skip" Fletcher has been named the new director of aeronautics at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
TECSTAR INC., a producer of aircraft support systems and spacecraft solar arrays based in City of Industry, Calif., has been picked to build a test flight rover solar panel to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the planned Marie Curie Mars 2001 mission. The Marie Curie rover will use a camera and alpha proton x-ray spectrometer to continue the exploration started by the Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover in 1997, which was also powered by Tecstar solar cells.
LOCKHEED MARTIN ASTRONAUTICS delivered the first Atlas IIIA launch vehicle to Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., Sunday for processing to launch the Telstar 7 satellite for Loral Skynet in mid-June. Powered by the Russian RD-180 rocket engines that will also power the company's planned Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV), the new Atlas III will be launched from Lockheed Martin's Launch Complex 36B, which has been upgraded with new interfaces and a Mobile Service Tower 20 feet higher than the old tower.
Eight U.K. groups were awarded accreditation as Defense and Aerospace Research Partnerships (DARPs) by the U.K. Ministry of Defense, a recognition of their success in innovative research for the U.K.'s Foresight program, which develops visions of the future.
John P. Stenbit, executive vice president of telecommunications, has been selected to join the ranks of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Ronald P. Vargo has been named vice president and treasurer. He succeeds Jeanne R. Sydenstricker, who has been named vice president and chief information officer, TRW Automotive. William C. Seeger has been named vice president, planning, analysis and investor relations. Larry W. Edelman has been named director, investor relations.
CONSTRUCCIONES AERONAUTICAS S.A. (CASA) of Spain will build 20 conical interstage adapters for the Lockheed Martin Atlas V under a $6.3 million contract with the U.S. company's Astronautics unit. The Madrid-based aerospace company, Spain's largest, will supply the adapter to link the rocket's main stage with its Centaur upper stage.
DORNIER SATELLITENSYSTEME GMBH (DSS) has finished the first satellite in the four-satellite Cluster II constellation, which is intended to study the interaction between the sun and the earth for the European Space Agency. DSS is building three new satellites, which will work in coordination with a fourth "Phoenix" platform reworked from an earlier engineering model. Cluster II replaces the original Cluster constellation, which was lost on the first launch attempt of the Ariane 5 rocket in June 1996 (DAILY, June 5, 1996).
The National Transportation Safety Board, citing recent fatal airline accidents, yesterday recommended that the FAA require replacement of all cockpit voice recorders after Jan. 1, 2005, with units capable of recording two hours of crew conversations. It also wants an independent power source located with the CVR that automatically engages and provides 10 minutes of operation whenever aircraft power to the recorder ceases.
SCHLUMBERGER SMART CARDS&TERMINALS will supply satellite payphones for the Globalstar "big-LEO" low-Earth orbit satellite communications network under a contract announced in Cannes, France. Schlumberger, which builds applications for smart card payment technology, will provide Globalstar with smart card payphones for use in remote villages in both outdoor booths and counter-top units that can be installed in stores or other structures.
