Air Force
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Air ForceHellfire II Missile Production Extended Under $357 Million Army Contract
By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT], under HELLFIRE Services Limited Liability Company (HSLLC), will produce additional combat-proven Hellfirer II precision- strike, laser-guided air-to-ground missiles for U.S. and international armed forces […]
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Air ForceBoeing’s Hill Backers Call For Pentagon To Slow New Tanker Competition
By Emelie Rutherford At least 11 lawmakers–including many outspoken Boeing [BA] backers–want the Pentagon to slow the speed of the revised aerial-refueling tanker competition, saying in a letter too many questions […]
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Air ForcePANAMAX ’08 Focuses On Multinational Defense of The Panama Canal
Exercise Fuerzas Aliades PANAMAX 2008 involves military and civilian forces from 20 nations to increase multinational interoperability and support training requirements to ensure rapid crisis response and provide threat protection […]
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Air ForceATK Opens FY ’09 With Strong Results Despite Space Glitch
By Calvin Biesecker Alliant Techsystems [ATK] yesterday posted strong earnings and sales to open its new fiscal year, powered by record results in its ammunition business that more than offset […]
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Air ForceSchwartz, McNabb Approved For Air Force Positions, Donley Confirmation Stalled
By Emelie Rutherford Despite the objection of Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), the Senate last Friday officially confirmed Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, outgoing head of U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), as […]
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Air ForceHAC-D Deletes FY ’09 DDG-1000 Ship, But Doesn’t Fully Back New Destroyer Plan
By Emelie Rutherford The House Appropriations defense subcommittee’s fiscal year 2009 defense bill includes no money for buying a Navy DDG-1000 destroyer, yet its chairman expressed doubts yesterday about the […]
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Air ForceSenate Panel Receives Secret Data On Air Force Picks, May Decide Their Fate This Week
By Emelie Rutherford After raising concerns about the White House’s pick for two new Air Force leaders, a key lawmaker said he has received classified material he requested on the […]
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Air ForceExpert Panel Sees Directed Energy Attacks Against Satellites Likely, But Extremely Difficult To Detect, Retaliate Against
Analyst: U.S. Satellites Likely To Be Hit In A Hot War The United States must prepare for war in space, because any enemy nation will be tempted to offset the […]
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Air ForceSpace, Information Systems Lift Lockheed Martin’s Earnings
By Calvin Biesecker Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday posted strong second quarter earnings due to big gains at its Space and Information Systems segments and the world’s largest defense contractor raised […]
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Air ForceNew Raytheon Effort Enables Legacy Aircraft To Get Fifth Generation AESA Radar
By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] has developed a way to offer its active electronically scanned array (AESA) to legacy aircraft such as F-18 Hornets and F-16s with minimal intrusion into […]