Aerospace & Defense News - Defense.Sep 17, 2007 Arms fair showcases hi-tech battlefield gear. The Defence Systems & Equipment International exposition in London this week features plenty of vendors showcasing tanks, guns and other traditional weapons. Nearby are booths devoted to sensors, microprocessors, software packages and rugged laptops designed to help fewer soldiers get more done, more efficiently. "I can easily foresee a future where we can achieve a 75% reduction of troops at risk," says Joaquin Salas of U.S. truck builder Oshkosh, which is working on unmanned ground vehicles. "We are in discussions with the military to see when they might want to test this capability." Sep 12, 2007 Senate defense appropriators gave some details about their fiscal 2008 spending package, which includes full funding for the Army's Future Combat Systems. The panel also cut $310 million requested for missile defense Missile defence is an air defence system, weapon program, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception and destruction of attacking missiles. Originally conceived as a defence against nuclear-armed ICBMs, its application has broadened to include shorter-ranged , including $85 million from the proposed Czech radar and Polish interceptor missile requests. "The funds can be used better in other areas," Chairman Daniel Inouye Daniel Ken Inouye (born September 7 1924) is a recipient of the Medal of Honor and currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Hawaii. He has been a senator for over forty years, since 1963, a distinction that few senators have achieved, and is currently the third , D-Hawaii, said, speaking of several changes made to the request. The package gives more than requested for raising military and civilian employees' pay and for strengthening military health care, while cutting the budgets of weapons programs not performing as expected. Sep 12, 2007 Blakey criticized for taking AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture leadership role. Marion Blakey Marion Clifton Blakey (born March 26, 1948) was the 15th Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. She was the second woman to hold the position, serving as a successor to Jane Garvey, the first woman to hold the Administrator title. , outgoing head of the FAA, is being criticized for accepting the position of president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Aerospace Industries Association. Ethics watchdogs point out that the AIA lobbies the FAA on spending and policy issues. Blakey said she has been "scrupulously careful" to follow ethics rules, adding that member firms of AIA compete directly against each other, providing an incentive for her not to support any single company. Sep 11, 2007 Japan to fund stealth fighter study. Japan's Y4.8 trillion ($41.4 billion) defence budget request for fiscal year 2008 includes an initial Y15.7 billion allocation from the nation's air. Sep 10, 2007 U.S. signs new defense trade agreement with Australia. The U.S. and Australia have agreed to loosen restrictions on sales of U.S. armaments to Australia. Once finalized, the treaty will allow prescreened firms to export approved defense technology to Australia without going through the current licensing process. Instead, the firms will notify the State Department that the sale has taken place. The treaty must still be approved by the Senate. Sep 10, 2007 UAV UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV Unmanned Air Vehicle UAV Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle UAV Unmanned Airborne Vehicle UAV Uninhabited Air Vehicle UAV Urban Assault Vehicle UAV Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle (less common) geared for naval and border patrol use. The Polish Air Force Polish Air Force (Siły Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, Siły Powietrzne RP). Until 1 July 2004 it was officially known as: Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej (literally: Air and Air Defence Forces, the name existing from 1990). Institute of Technology has unveiled a prototype ship-launched tactical unmanned air vehicle with the Polish navy and border. Sep 10, 2007 Aegis Defence Services Aegis Defence Services is a London, U.K.–based private military company with overseas offices in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, Nepal and the United States. Aegis provides specialist security and risk management solutions to counter extreme threats. Aegis Defence Services lands $475 million Army contract. The U.S. military has awarded the largest security contract in Iraq to a private British firm, Aegis Defence Services. The contract is worth up to $475 million over two years. The deal faces a challenge by another U.K. firm: Erinys Iraq is seeking an injunction from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to put a hold on the contract. Erinys had unsuccessfully protested the Aegis contract award with the GAO and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Sep 14, 2007 Boeing Boeing awarded $1.1 billion Air Force tanker maintenance deal. The Air Force tapped Boeing for a $1.1 billion, 10-year deal to maintain its Eisenhower-era aerial refueling Aerial refueling, also called Air refueling or in-flight refueling (IFR) or air-to-air refueling (AAR) or (in the UK) tanking. Note that AAR also stands for "After Action Review" (de-briefing) and in aviation, IFR also stands for tankers. Boeing will provide depot-level maintenance, repairs and repainting for more than 200 of the aerial refueling aircraft at facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Sep 12, 2007 Boeing Boeing flies first modified 737 surveillance aircraft for Turkey. Turkey[sup.1]s delayed [sup.3]Peace Eagle[sup.2] airborne early warning and control Air surveillance and control provided by airborne early warning aircraft which are equipped with search and height-finding radar and communications equipment for controlling weapon systems. Also called AEW & C. See also air picket. aircraft project has received a welcome boost, with the nation[sup.1]s first. Sep 10, 2007 Comtech Mobile Datacom Comtech Mobile Datacom has won a three-year, $605.1 million Army contract to support a satellite-based system that tracks vehicles on the battlefield. The contract follows a similar 1999 agreement for the program, called the Movement Tracking System. The new contract runs through July 12, 2010. Sep 10, 2007 Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Lack of spares dogs Polish F-16s. The Polish air force has integrated the mission control software and improved the availability rate of its Lockheed Martin F-16 fleet Sep 10, 2007 Lockheed Martin Lockheed gets green light to modify GPS for L5 test Lockheed Martin Space Systems Lockheed Martin Space Systems is one of the 4 major business divisions of Lockheed Martin. It is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. From a rich history of major companies Lockheed Martin has brought them together to offer design, integration, and production of: New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded New Orleans-area shipbuilding enjoying record number of contracts. Labor shortages and Hurricane Katrina-related damage to facilities have not kept New Orleans shipbuilding firms from landing a record number of defense and commercial contracts. "We started seeing an increase in shipbuilding demand before the storm," said Ben Bordelon, executive vice president of repairs at Bollinger Shipyards. "Every market is hot right now," he said. "Coast Guard boats, supply boats, tugs, inland barges and offshore oil barges--it's been a continual internal growth." Sep 12, 2007 Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Northrop Grumman gets Head Start on US Navy BAMS BAMS, n.pr See Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery. contest. Northrop Grumman is finishing up flights of a Gulfstream II testbed under the company-funded Head Start risk-reduction programme intended to boost. Sep 10, 2007 Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman tests oblique flying wing X-plane in windtunnel. Northrop Grumman is beginning high-speed windtunnel testing of the oblique flying wing X-plane Sep 10, 2007 Raytheon Raytheon awarded Pentagon contract worth up to $15 billion. Raytheon announced that it has landed a Pentagon contract worth up to $15 billion to supply a program designed to combat illegal drugs. The defense contractor Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; will provide equipment, material and services to the Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office at the Department of Defense. Work has already begun and is scheduled to continue through August, 2012. Sep 11, 2007 Raytheon Raytheon delivered its non-lethal Active Denial System | The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon system under development by the U.S. military. It is a strong millimeter-wave transmitter used for crowd control (the "goodbye effect"[1]). 2 to the U.S. Air Force Aug. 31. Raytheon's Active Denial System is designed to use millimeter wave technology to repel individuals without causing injury. Active Denial System 2 is an enhanced, ruggedized version of the initial active denial capability that Raytheon built for the Air Force under the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program. Sep 11, 2007 Raytheon Raytheon has been awarded a $5 million U.S. Army contract option to provide Rapid Aerostat aer·o·stat n. An aircraft, especially a balloon or dirigible, deriving its lift from the buoyancy of surrounding air rather than from aerodynamic motion. Initial Deployment (RAID) Mobile Eagle Eye tower systems to protect U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. The contract calls for nine Mobile Eagle Eye elevated sensor systems with deliveries beginning in February 2008. Work will be performed at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems' Integrated Air Defense Center, Andover, Mass., and at the Warfighter Protection Center, Huntsville, Ala. Sep 11, 2007 Saab Saab to fly Future Gripen by late 2008 Saab, meanwhile, expects to fly a two-seat demonstrator dem·on·stra·tor n. 1. One that demonstrates, such as a participant in a public display of opinion. 2. An article or product used in a demonstration. demonstrator Noun 1. for an increased-size Future Gripen by late 2008, with risk-sharing partners. Sep 10, 2007 Saab Saab to produce maritime version of Skeldar UAV Saab to fly enlarged maritime variant of developmental Skeldar unmanned air vehicle in late 2008. Sep 10, 2007 Thales, Elbit Watchkeeper system may lead to more Thales-Elbit cooperation. Thales UK expects to secure its first export orders for the British Army's Watchkeeper unmanned air vehicle system from 2009. 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