
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
DTN News - LIBYA UPRISING: Now, It Is A Full Blown Civil War In Libya

DTN News: Aerospace/Defense Headlines - News Dated March 9, 2011
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Wednesday March 9, 2011
- General Dynamics Awarded $11 Million by U.S. Navy for Aegis Illuminators 11:00 am - PR Newswire
- Alcoa Completes TransDigm Aerospace Fastener Acquisition 10:58 am - Business Wire
- Shuttle Discovery heads for landing on last flight 10:54 am - Reuters
- The Legion de Lafayette of the National Guard Association of the United States Honors Capella University as the First Educational Institution to Become a Member 10:52 am - Business Wire
- TransDigm Group Completes Fastener Divestiture 10:41 am - PR Newswire
- New 3MTM Littmann® Scope-to-Scope Tele-Auscultation Software Transmits from Space 10:18 am - Business Wire
- Tyco International Shareholders Approve Dividend Increase, Elect New Director at Company's Annual General Meeting 10:11 am - PR Newswire
- Sigma Labs, Inc. Participates in an Exclusive Technology Scouting Event Sponsored by Dresser-Rand 10:00 am - PR Newswire
- Turbine Truck Engines Takes Delivery of the 6th Generation DCGT Prototype Engine 10:00 am - Marketwire
- Safeguard Business Unit Launches Government Division with 21st Century Armor 9:40 am - Business Wire
- Airbus order surge lifts cash-rich EADS 9:38 am - Reuters
- Russia's Aeroflot to buy eight Boeing airliners 9:28 am - Reuters
- BAE Systems Awarded Contract for P-8A Mission Computer Systems 9:28 am - Business Wire
- Denim Group Signs Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with US Air Force’s 688th Information Operations Wing 9:18 am - Business Wire
- Interfast Inc. and China's AVIC International Zhuhai Co. Sign Letter of Intent for Joint Venture 9:09 am - Marketwire
- FedSources Announces: 26th Annual Federal Outlook Conference 9:05 am - Business Wire
- FAA and Sensis Receive 2011 Jane's ATC Global Runway Safety Award 9:00 am - PR Newswire
- Largest Software Release in Polarion History Revolutionizes Application Lifecycle and Requirements Management 9:00 am - Marketwire
- Raytheon Teams With West Point to Combat the Insider Threat on War Front Lines 9:00 am - PR Newswire
- Photo and Video Release -- Landmark Flight Brings Program One Step Closer to Demonstrating Autonomous Aerial Refueling Between Two Unmanned Aircraft 9:00 am - GlobeNewswire
- Orbit International Corp. Reschedules 2010 Fourth Quarter & Year End Conference Call for 2:00 pm on Thursday, March 10th 8:45 am - Business Wire
- CPI Aerostructures Announces 2010 Year-End Results 8:45 am - Business Wire
- Integral Systems Executives to Share Industry Insights at SATELLITE 2011 Conference 8:35 am - GlobeNewswire
- PICMG Ratifies CompactPCI® Serial Specification 8:30 am - Business Wire
- Peter Bowler, Former Airline CEO, Joins PASSUR Aerospace as Senior Advisor 8:25 am - PR Newswire
- Boeing, Aeroflot Announce Order for Eight 777s 8:14 am - PR Newswire
- Vulcan Flex Circuit Corporation to Present at IPC/EXPO 8:10 am - PR Newswire
- Goodrich Selected to Provide Nacelle System for Airbus A320 Family Re-engining 8:00 am - PR Newswire
- AeroDef Sessions To Show How OEMs, Suppliers Are Creating An Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing ‘Digital Thread’ 8:00 am - Business Wire
- Ohio Aerospace Day Highlights State's Global Leadership in Aerospace and Aviation 8:00 am - PR Newswire
- Hughes Executive to Address Military Forum at SATELLITE 2011 8:00 am - PR Newswire
- Prime Equity Research Initiates Coverage on AmbiCom Holdings, Inc. With Speculative Buy Rating 8:00 am - Marketwire
- Ceradyne, Inc. Raises 2011 Guidance 7:30 am - Marketwire
- RF Industries Reports Record First Quarter Results 7:30 am - Business Wire
- Searidge Win 2011 Innovation Award at International Industry Conference 7:04 am - PR Newswire
- STC issued to AeroMechanical Services for AFIRS 228 7:03 am - Business Wire
- Elbit Systems of America Awarded Contract from the Boeing Company to Develop New Head up Displays for the U.S. Air Force C-17 7:01 am - PR Newswire
- DHi Awarded DoD and BAE Contracts Worth More Than $2.6M For 8,141 Additional MRAP Photoluminescent Emergency Egress LightingTM Safety Kits 6:10 am - Business Wire
- OK Labs and Galois Partner in Original Research for Ultra-Secure Systems 6:05 am - Marketwire
- Qantas, Singapore up fuel surcharge, Cathay warns on oil impact 5:59 am - Reuters
- Airbus order surge lifts cash-rich EADS 5:53 am - Reuters
- Elbit Systems U.S. Subsidiary Awarded Contract From Boeing to Develop New Head Up Displays for the U.S. Air Force's C-17 5:18 am - PR Newswire
- USCG Continues Ramp of MaxID TWIC Readers and Software for TWIC Enforcement Program 12:05 am - PR Newswire
Tuesday March 8, 2011
- Aviation Week Laureate Awards Go to Heroes, Leaders and Innovators 11:00 pm - PR Newswire
- Frost & Sullivan: Increasing Air Traffic to Push APAC Engine MRO Market to $6.6 Billion by 2016 10:44 pm - Marketwire
- SEACOR Capital Announces Jay Shaw to Join as Managing Director 9:05 pm - Marketwire
- Research and Markets: The Thai Defense Industry - Market Opportunities and Entry Strategies, Analyses and Forecasts to 2015 9:00 pm - Business Wire
- Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Completes Engine Runs Successfully 7:46 pm - PR Newswire
- Honeywell Sees First Quarter Sales and EPS at High End of Previous Range and Re-Affirms 2011 Financial Guidance 5:15 pm - PR Newswire
- New Bell Helicopter Wire Strike Protection System Development 5:07 pm - PR Newswire
- ILFC places big plane orders, scraps super jumbos 5:03 pm - Reuters
- Boeing wins $10 billion deal from Chinese airlines 4:46 pm - Reuters
- AeroVironment, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2011 Third Quarter Results 4:05 pm - Business Wire
- SAIC to Webcast Presentation at J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation and Defense Conference 4:05 pm - PR Newswire
- EnerSys' ABSL Batteries Successfully Delivered to the International Space Station 4:01 pm - PR Newswire
- James A. Tegnelia Joins Board of Directors of EMCORE Corporation 4:01 pm - Marketwire
- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Demonstrates First RS-68A Production Engine is Ready for Flight 2:58 pm - PR Newswire
- X-ES Packs 1 TB of Solid State Storage in Single 3U VPX Slot to Satisfy Military SSD Requirements 2:30 pm - Marketwire
- Women in Aerospace Canada Celebrates International Women's Day at Bombardier Aerospace's Toronto Facility 2:26 pm - Marketwire
- Pronghorn Technologies Receives Over $1M for Total Residual Oxidant Sensor 2:02 pm - Marketwire
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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated March 8, 2011
CONTRACTS
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
This is a contract award notice for the Missile Defense Agency’s Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Target class to Orbital Sciences Corp. This award is for the manufacture of intermediate range ballistic missile targets, associated objects, and integrated logistics support to include inventory storage and maintenance management, pre- and post-mission analysis, launch preparation and execution, engineering services, and modeling and simulation support. The award is for complete “tip to tail” targets under contract number HQ0147-11-C-0006. The contract will be firm-fixed-price with provisions for fixed-price incentive, cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-reimbursement. The total value of the contract is $1,100,000,000 if all options are exercised. The total value of the base award is $217,080,944. The total contract period of performance is from March 2011 to January 2018. Major subcontractors for this effort are Honeywell and ATK Aerospace Systems Group.
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Agfn Healthcare, Ridgefield Park, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $120,000,000 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for digital imaging network-picture archive communication system. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The maximum dollar amount is for base year only. The original proposal was Web-solicited with 10 responses. The date of performance completion is March 7, 2013. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2D1-11-D-8303).
Weinbrenner Shoe Co.*, Merrill, Wis., is being awarded a maximum $9,819,429 firm-fixed-price contract for steel toe, hot weather boots. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. The original proposal was Web-solicited with one response. This contract is exercising the fourth option year. The date of performance completion is March 7, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM1C1-08-D-1040).
Elwyn Industries, Aston, Pa., is being awarded a maximum $7,525,935 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for bandages. Other location of performance is Delaware. Using service is depot stock. This contract has a base year with four one-year option periods. The date of performance completion is March 8, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2DS-11-D-N001).
AIR FORCE
Jacobs Technology, Inc., Tullahoma, Tenn., is being awarded a $52,097,264 cost-plus-award-fee, cost-reimbursement, firm-fixed-price contract for acquiring three years basic, and one two-year option, of contractor support to provide operational support required by the Air Force Research Laboratory for design, construction, reconfiguration, modification, test operations and maintenance of experimental and support facilities used to perform research and development of rocket propulsion, space systems and their components under the Research Operations Support Services Contract. Work will be performed the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Contract funds in the amount of $1,659,232 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Bids were solicited electronically and one was received. AFFTC/PKTB, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity (FA9300-11-C-0001).
NAVY
BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Inc., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $15,974,662 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2314) to exercise options for the USS Gravely (DDG 107) post shakedown availability. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $3,194,932 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
DTN News - AFGHAN WAR: Karzai Accepts Gates’ Apology For Civilian Deaths

"I would like to begin by joining General Petreaus in offering my personal apology for the accidental killing of 9 afghans boys killed by coalition forces last week. This breaks our hearts," Gates said standing beside Karzai at a press conference. “Not only is their loss a tragedy for their families, it is a setback for our relationship with the afghan people whose security is our chief concern."
Karzai was then asked by a reporter if he accepted the Secretary's apology, seeing as he had just rejected an apology by Gen. David Petraeus just hours before.
"Civilian casualties is an issue that has been for a long time at the heart of some of the tensions in an otherwise very healthy relationship between the two countries," Karzai said. "Secretary Gates is an honored friend of Afghanistan and I trust him fully when he says he's sorry." "We take the apology with respect," he added.
Karzai then invited Gates to dinner at the country’s presidential palace.
Gates is in the country on a surprise visit to talk about the start of the drawdown of U.S. forces later this year and the transition to Afghan control. Gates announced he was sending a team next week to begin negotiating with the Afghan government for U.S. troops to stay beyond 2014, if the Afghans agree.
Civilian casualties have been a persistent problem in U.S.-Afghan relations. The public uproar here over the most recent killings, reportedly of boys gathering firewood who were mistaken for insurgent fighters by the crew of a helicopter gunship makes Gates’ mission more difficult.
Meanwhile, questions about the possibility of the U.S. intervening in the Libyan civil war followed Gates on his visit here. Petraeus greeted Gates on the tarmac in Kabul with a joke about the mounting tensions in the North African country not intended for the camera crews nearby.
As Petraeus shook Gates’ hand, the general could be heard saying, "Well I think you have a bigger plane than normal, you're gonna launch some attacks on Libya or something?
To which Gates laughed and replied, "Yeah, exactly."
Gates waved off the suggestion adding in an exclusive interview with FOX News that "I dont think anybody has any intention of putting any ground forces in Libya."
Even if intended to be light-hearted, the remarks won't be well received in Washington. Secretary Gates and other defense leaders have made clear that the Pentagon is presenting the White House with a range of military options.
"We will provide him with that full range of options, Gates said. “We will also provide him with our judgment as to likelihood of success and also what the consequences might be."
Over the weekend Washington continued a heated debate over feasibility and need for establishing a “no-fly zone” over Libya.
Sen. John Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday the U.S. and its allies should consider bombing the country's airports and runways.
White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, responded later that day by suggesting it's a bigger commitment than some proponents imagine.
"Lots of people throw around phrases of `no-fly zone' and they talk about it as though it's just a game, a video game or something. Some people who throw that line out have no idea what they're talking about," Daley said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Pentagon Spokesman Col. Dave Lapan pointed out Monday that bombing runways does not eliminate Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddaffi's ability to use helicopters.
"There are other ways around that. In fact, that's what we saw in the no-fly zone in Iraq,” Lapan said in reference to a “no-fly zone” established over Iraq after the first Gulf War in 1991. “Saddam Hussein was able to attack the Shia in the south."
Karzai Accepts Gates' Apology On Boys Deaths
ABC News - Mar 07 12:02pmAfganistan President Hamid Karzai accepted Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' apology for the US killing 9 Afghan children. Full Story
- Gates says U.S. 'well-positioned' for some troop reductions in Afghanistanin JulyWashington Post - Mar 07 03:55pmKABUL - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, heartened by recent military operations to push back the Taliban from major population centers, said the U.S. was likely to begin pulling out some troops from Afghanistan this summer.
- Gates in southern Afghanistan as two-day trip continuesCNN - Mar 07 11:35pmU.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Helmand province in southernAfghanistan Tuesday morning as he continued his two-day trip to the country, meeting with senior officers and Afghan leaders.
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- Why is Robert Gates making a surprise visit to Afghanistan?US Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan for a surprise visit Monday at a critical time for war strategists in the White House. As heavy fighting is expected to resume as the weather improves, Mr. Gates will likely be assessing the scope of the troop drawdown scheduled to begin this July. Defense officials, however, have been quick to insist that this is not a decisionmaking trip.The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Mar 07 09:20am
- Gates in Afghanistan to weigh pullout planKABUL, Afghanistan, March 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told soldiers in Afghanistan Monday shorter deployments aren't likely soon but should be spaced further apart.UPI - Mar 07 04:53am
- Defense Secretary Gates lands in AfghanistanU.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Monday at a time of increased strain between Kabul and its Western backers and with important security transition milestones looming.Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 06 09:24pm
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- Gates: U.S. should stay in Afghanistan past 2014Defense chief, Afghan leaders agree "small" U.S. troop presence will be needed beyond planned combat deadlineCBS News - Mar 07 01:40am
- Afghanistan rejects US apology over boys' deathsAfghanistan's president has rejected a US apology for the mistaken killing of nine Afghan boys in a Nato air attack and said civilian casualties are no longer acceptable. read moreOtago Daily Times - Mar 06 10:38am
- Afghanistan's Korengal ValleyYesterday was Veteran's Day (or Armistice or Remembrance Day, depending on where you live), a day set aside to honor those who have served in the military. Today, on the day after, it seems appropriate to share some photographs of U.S. soldiers currently in the thick of war in Afghanistan. Getty Images photographer John Moore spent some time recently in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, near the ...Boston Globe - Mar 07 09:00am
Burial for West Point grad killed in Afghanistan
Family, friends and scores of comrades bid their final goodbyes to 24-year-old 1st Lt. Daren Hidalgo on Monday on the grounds of the storied academy where he, his father and an older brother trained to become Army officers.AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 07 02:37pm- Bing West strafes U.S. Afghanistan strategy in 'The Wrong War' - The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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- Pentagon chief gets look at US military progress in southern AfghanistanCOMBAT OUTPOST KOWALL, Afghanistan - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates got a first-hand look Tuesday at U.S. military progress in the most hotly contested areas of southern Afghanistan.The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News - 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
- In Afghanistan, U.S. shifts strategy on women's rights as it eyes wider prioritiesWhen the U.S. Agency for International Development sought bids last March for a $140 million land reform program in Afghanistan, it insisted that the winning contractor meet specific goals to promote women's rights: The number of deeds granting women title had to increase by 50 percent; there wou...Washington Post - Mar 05 09:18pm
- Afghanistan deputy minister: expansion of economic ties with Iran importantAfghan Deputy Commerce and Industry Minister Mohammad Sharif Sharifi saidAfghanistan attaches great importance to expanding economic and trade relations with Iran, the local satellite Press TV reported on Monday.People's Daily - Mar 07 05:08pm
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