April 1, 2002 ARMY Lockheed Martin Corp., Dallas, is being awarded a $1,945,000 increment to a $15,600,000 cumulative total cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Tactical Missile System Penetrator Demonstration (TPD) Missile System Integration. Work will be performed in Dallas, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2004. This
China Ocean Helicopter Corp. (COHC) announced recently it will acquire the Southern Zhuhai Helicopter Corp. (SZHC), which will give it 80 percent of the helicopter general aviation market. SZHC, founded in 1980, builds five helicopter models and one fixed-wing aircraft, and owns a helicopter airport in Zhuhai and two flight bases in Danjiang, Guangdong province and Sanya, Hainan province.
MOSCOW - Russia's air force has said unofficially it will replace its aging Czech L-29 and L-39 jet trainers with Yakovlev Design Bureau's Yak-130 trainer, although the fate of the competing MiG-AT proposal is not clear. Russia's Ministry of Defense placed an order for 10 Yak-130s from the Sokol Aircraft Plant in Nizniy Novgorod, with the first four aircraft to be delivered next year, according to a regional information agency.
A report released last week by Forecast International/DMS Inc. predicts the market for airborne anti-submarine warfare sensors will decline over the next 10 years as the nation shifts resources to the war on terrorism. The report, entitled, "the Market for Airborne ASW Sensors," examines in detail the potential market for dipping sonars, airborne maritime surveillance radars, magnetic abnormality detectors and sonobuoys.
Israel is in line to get additional Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits from the U.S. It already has received 472 of the kits, which convert standard bombs into smart weapons, and the Boeing Co. will build 228 more. When Boeing completes the work next year, Israel will have the 700 kits it requested in November 1999. The kits are for the Mk. 84 2,000-pound bomb.
An extended-range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile will be able to fly 2.5 times as far as the baseline version through internal improvements, according to an Air Force Official.
Congressional advocates of the Navy EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft have urged key committees to provide funding in the fiscal 2002 supplemental appropriations bill or the FY '03 defense bills to buy Northrop Grumman wing center section replacements.
ENGINE APPROVED: China's first domestically developed turbofan engine has been approved for use by the air force. Research on the engine began in 1991 by the No. 608 research institute, South Company, the Hongdu Aviation Industry Group, and the China Flight Test Establishment.
ENGINE APPROVED: China's first domestically developed turbofan engine has been approved for use by the air force. Research on the engine began in 1991 by the No. 608 research institute, South Company, the Hongdu Aviation Industry Group, and the China Flight Test Establishment.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off for the latest station assembly mission at 4:45 p.m. EDT April 8, after workers at Kennedy Space Center spent the weekend fixing a hydrogen vent line leak on the vehicle's mobile launch platform.
Congressional advocates of the Navy EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft have urged key committees to provide funding in the fiscal 2002 supplemental appropriations bill or the FY '03 defense bills to buy Northrop Grumman wing center section replacements.
A report released last week by Forecast International/DMS Inc. predicts the market for airborne anti-submarine warfare sensors will decline over the next 10 years as the nation shifts resources to the war on terrorism. The report, entitled, "the Market for Airborne ASW Sensors," examines in detail the potential market for dipping sonars, airborne maritime surveillance radars, magnetic abnormality detectors and sonobuoys.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off for the latest station assembly mission at 4:45 p.m. EDT April 8, after workers at Kennedy Space Center spent the weekend fixing a hydrogen vent line leak on the vehicle's mobile launch platform.
NASA should add $122 million to its $15 million New Frontiers program account to revive a mission to Pluto, the NASA Advisory Council's Solar System Exploration Subcommittee (SSES) has recommended. NASA canceled its Pluto-Kuiper Express mission in 2000 due to its rising budget, but solicited input from industry and academia about mounting a cheaper mission.
Israel is in line to get additional Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits from the U.S. It already has received 472 of the kits, which convert standard bombs into smart weapons, and the Boeing Co. will build 228 more. When Boeing completes the work next year, Israel will have the 700 kits it requested in November 1999. The kits are for the Mk. 84 2,000-pound bomb.
Financial and technological constraints are preventing terrestrial wireline and wireless broadband service providers from meeting the growing demand for broadband access, creating an opportunity for satellite-service providers, according to a report from the Futron Corp. Futron, a technology consulting firm based in Bethesda, Md., estimates that the number of households demanding Internet broadband service will grow from about 15 million today to nearly 75 million by 2008.
Russia's air force has said unofficially it will replace its aging Czech L-29 and L-39 jet trainers with Yakovlev Design Bureau's Yak-130 trainer, although the fate of the competing MiG-AT proposal is not clear. Russia's Ministry of Defense placed an order for 10 Yak-130s from the Sokol Aircraft Plant in Nizniy Novgorod, with the first four aircraft to be delivered next year, according to a regional information agency.
NASA's first High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) spacecraft, along with the Argentine SAC-B satellite, re-entered the atmosphere April 6, still attached to the Pegasus third stage from which they failed to separate in 1996. According to U.S. Space Command, which tracked the spacecraft, re-entry occurred at about 10:55 p.m. EST over a remote area of China.
Orbital Imaging Corp. filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Virginia and plans to reorganize, the company announced April 8. The Dulles, Va.-based company, a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp., announced its plan to file for bankruptcy last fall (DAILY, Sept. 26, 2001), and has been negotiating with its bondholders, holders of its Series A Preferred Stock and Orbital Sciences over its restructuring since then.
An extended-range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile will be able to fly 2.5 times as far as the baseline version through internal improvements, according to an Air Force Official.
April 2, 2002 Tri-Industries, Terre Haute, Ind., is being awarded an $8,101,788 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for 186 support augmenters for the F-100 engines on the F-15 and F-16 aircraft. At this time, the total amount of funds has been obligated. This work will be complete by May 2003. Solicitation began in February 2002, and two proposals were received. Negotiations were completed February 2002. The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, is the contracting activity (F34601-02-C-0195).
Two U.S. congressmen from California are seeking to add hundreds of millions of dollars to the Bush Administration's fiscal 2003 defense budget to benefit the Global Hawk and Predator B unmanned aerial vehicles, the Navy's Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV-N), the B-2 bomber, the Black Hawk helicopter and other aerospace programs that have local interest.
