BRIEFCASE DUCOMMUN WINS CONTRACT ADD-ON.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Ducommun Inc.'s Ducommun AeroStructures business won a follow-on contract Tuesday valued at $30 million for AH-64 Apache helicopter main-rotor blades for use as both original equipment and replacement blades. The main-rotor blade contract from The Boeing Co. in Mesa, Ariz., adds to current production and extends deliveries into 2004. Boeing produces the next-generation AH-64D AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopter, D version, with Longbow radar improvements Apache Longbow longbow Leading missile weapon of the English from the 14th century into the 16th century. Probably of Welsh origin, it was usually 6 ft (2 m) tall and shot arrows more than a yard long. helicopter in Mesa for the U.S. Army and a growing number of international defense forces. The Apache rotor blades are designed to withstand direct small-arms fire and maintain airworthiness air·wor·thy adj. air·wor·thi·er, air·wor·thi·est Being in fit condition to fly: an airworthy helicopter; airworthy avionics. . The manufacture of the blades will be at the composite structures unit of DAS, which has built every Apache rotor blade since the inception of the program. Ducommun AeroStructures manufactures large, complex structural components and assemblies in aluminum, specialty alloys such as titanium, metal bond and composites for a wide variety of military and commercial aerospace applications. Founded in 1849, Ducommun Inc. manufactures components and assemblies for the aerospace industry. Tenet announces change in leaders SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. - Tenet Healthcare Corp., the nation's second-largest hospital chain, has named a new independent director as non-executive chairman to help lead the troubled company. Tenet said Tuesday that Edward A. Kangas, who joined the board in April, would replace former chairman Jeffrey Barbakow, who stepped down in May under pressure from the board. Barbakow stepped down amid a growing crisis at the company, which is the subject of a federal probe into Medicare billings. Waksal to begin prison term today NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - Sam Waksal, the ImClone Systems Inc. founder whose jet-setting lifestyle crumbled in an insider-trading scandal, is expected to report today to a federal prison where his work could include waxing floors and cutting grass. Waksal is required to turn himself in at Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa., to begin serving a prison sentence of more than seven years. The scientist admitted last year to tipping his daughter to dump ImClone stock in December 2001 because he had received word the government was about to issue a negative report on the ImClone cancer drug Erbitux. Boeing to revamp launch business ST. LOUIS - Only a week after announcing a planned second-quarter charge of $1.1 billion due to weakness in the commercial space launch market, Boeing Co. said it will realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. its launch and satellite businesses to cut costs. ``The commercial space market has eroded to a point where it is no longer a driving factor in either our satellite or launch services business,'' Jim Albaugh, president and chief executive of St. Louis-based Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS), based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is a unit of The Boeing Company responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. , said in a statement. Boeing will consolidate Boeing Satellite Systems into Space and Intelligent Systems. Expendable Launch Systems, which has become primarily a supplier to the Air Force, will be aligned with Air Force Systems. Rocketdyne Power and Propulsion, builders of the space shuttle main engine
The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are the three main engines on the Space Shuttle orbiter. and power generation systems for the International Space Station, will become part of systems of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), . Boeing expects the realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. to have a minimal effect on employment. The company will continue to report financials along with its four established reporting segments. |
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