News of March 20, 2006
DOD removes critical report on missile defense system from Web site
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
The Defense Department has removed from the DOD inspector general's Web site a critical report that states that the network that links radar systems, missile sites and command centers for the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) ground-based d...
Pentagon rejects call to limit Global Hawk output
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
The US Department of Defense has rejected fresh calls by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) for production of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle to be limited to just flight-test...
'Pentagon's F-22 Plan Is Not a Recipe for Stability'
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) believes the Pentagon over the past two years has strayed from its long-run effort to introduce stability in major acquisition efforts by laying out procurement plans for USAF's new F-22A stealth fighter that “have been anything but stable.”
JSF stealth won't be reduced
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
Foreign press reports that the Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) sold to Australia will be less stealthy than promised are wrong, prime contractor Lockheed Martin says.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported M...
The race to blast tourists into space
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- If floating weightless and peering down on a shimmering-blue Earth sounds appealing, you might consider being a space tourist.
As long as you've got a fat wallet.
Two years after the first privately financed space flight jump-started a sl...
Russia hardsells MiGs to IAF
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
Recently, the French had to pull their Mirage fighter out of a 126 fighter aircraft deal with India. Shortly thereafter they offered the more modern but expensive ...
Lockheed Completes First Pathfinder Seeker For MDA's Multiple Kill Vehicle System
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 20, 2006 -- Lockheed Martin (NSE: LMT) announced today that it has completed the first kill vehicle pathfinder seeker for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle System.
Lockheed Martin is testing the pathfinder seeker in its hardware-in-the-loop f...
Northrop to Build Supersonic Flying Wing Prototype
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Western Region, El Segundo, Calif., was awarded on March 16, 2006, a $3,800,325 increment of a $10,295,593 other transaction for prototypes agreement to develop a conceptual and preliminary design of an experimental aircraft to demonstrate...
JSF Fracas Risks Bad Blood Between Allies
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
Anglo-American feuding over the Joint Strike Fighter threatens to spill over into the wider transatlantic relationship. On the domestic front, there is bad blood between Congress and the Pentagon over the fate of the aircraft's alternative engine.
Australia Embraces Net-Centric Warfighting
Posted at: Mon Mar 20th, 2006
Australia's top planners began with the search for an airborne radar that could pick out very small targets at great distances. But that vision has made a quantum leap into the esoteric world of network-centric warfare with development of the Wedgetail aircraft.
