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March 12, 2010

DoD Confirms F-35 IOC Delays, 50% Nunn-McCurdy Breach
By Emelie Rutherford Called before Congress to explain delays and cost growth with Lockheed Martin's [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Pentagon officials said...
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Deepwater Cost Estimates Creep Up
By Calvin Biesecker The Coast Guard's cost estimates to complete its ongoing recapitalization of major assets such as aircraft, cutters and related...
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Air Force Advocates Continued NPOESS Funding, Warns Over Launch Costs

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Obama Taps Boeing Exec To Advise Export Promotion Effort

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GeoEye Picks Lockheed Martin For NGA's EnhancedView Satellite Program

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Lockheed Martin To Support Apache Fire Control System

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New ATK Chief Realigns Business Groups And Their Leaders

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Orbital Buys GD Unit, Enters Medium Satellite Market

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Integral Systems Completes Milestone to Provide Air Force Counterspace Capabilities

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ATK To Ship ORS-1 In Quick Response To Urgent Military Needs

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NASA Authorizers Skeptical About Obama's Shift To Commercial Spacecraft

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ATK and NASA Perform Final Ground Test for Space Shuttle Program

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Marine Corps, Navy Demonstrate Sea Basing In Haitian Earthquake Response

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Boeing To Increase Australian Army Aviation Training

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Timken Adds To Gearbox Spares For Apache Helicopters

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Australia Approves Acquisition of Boeing CH-47F Chinooks

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AgustaWestland Taps Longbow LLC For U.K. Apache FCR Systems

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Bahrain Selects Rockwell Collins Black Hawk Simulator

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Lockheed Martin Successfully Completes CSSQT On U.S., Spanish, Ships

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Germany Reevaluates Need for MEADS As U.S. Army, MDA Meet

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EADS To Enter Agreement With Norsk Titanium Components

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Freedom Returns To Service After Repairs Made To Downed Diesel Generators

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Briefing

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DHS Limits ASP Program to Secondary Screening

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NGI Program Holding Close to Schedule, FBI Says

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IBM Top DHS Prime Contractor in FY '09

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Earnings News and Notes

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Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Face Fast Paced CANES SDD Phase

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DHS Plans R&D Effort To Apply Targeting Algorithms To Body Scanners

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Lockheed Martin Introduces Platform For Smart Grid Assets

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Five Companies Receive SPAWAR C2 IDIQ Award

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Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Win Navy's CANES Award

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Colgan Crash Anniversary Observed

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GE In Agreement With FAA To Research UAS Integration Into National Air Space

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DHS IG Sees Minimal Threat To Security From General Aviation

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Eurocopter EC175 Takes to the Air

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Helicopter Financing Tight But Not Terminal

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Helicopter HUMS update 2K10

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Use of the Instrument Rating for Helicopter Pilots

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Autorotation is a Sprag Thing

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IFE Providers: Connectivity Adds To Allure Of In-Flight Entertainment

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Safeguarding HEMS

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Asia’s MRO Hub

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Product Focus: HUMS

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Editor's Note: Recent Milestones

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Globalstar Looks to Brighter Future with Next-Gen Satellites

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Harding Looks at Air Force Communications Challenges

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Integral Plans to Launch NetOps Unit

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SES World Skies Plans 3-D TV Tests

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Olmstead: If Approved, SatMex Provides Many Benefits to EchoStar

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Via Satellite’s Satellite Executive Of The Year 2009: Peter Shaper, CEO, CapRock Communications

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Standing Out in a Difficult Environment

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Capacity Extremes Could Impact MENA

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Teleport Operators Find Ways to Trim Costs

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New Efforts to Mitigate Satellite Interference

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