Texas Gov. George W. Bush last night suggested the Army's Crusader artillery system might not fit in his vision for the U.S. military.
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Texas Gov. George W. Bush last night suggested the Army's Crusader artillery system might not fit in his vision for the U.S. military.
Stewart & Stevenson, maker of the Army's Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles, yesterday announced it has completed driveline upgrades on 3,340 trucks at its manufacturing plant in Sealy, TX, as well as on more than 50 percent of the service's fielded fleet.
The Army postponed an intercept test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 air defense system today because of rain and high winds at the test site, according to service officials.
The Energy Department's top computer security officer yesterday said he was "99.5 percent confident" that DOE computers cannot transfer information from a classified computer to an unclassified one without clearing a series of steps DOE has put in place over the past year.
As part of a security reform effort started last year by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, DOE's office of counterintelligence has begun an economic espionage review of DOE and DOD nuclear weapons contracting.
During a scheduled intercept test this October of the Army's Patriot missile, Army and Navy technicians will attempt to provide in-flight updates to the missile with radar data gathered by Aegis ships parked off the Florida coast using the Navy's Cooperative Engagement Capability system.
Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems and Aerostructures sector has been picked by Korean Aerospace Industries Ltd. to produce night vision kits for Korean fighter aircraft, the company said in a statement.
The Defense Department announced today it is revising and extending by five years a test program designed to encourage major defense contractors to subcontract more with small and disadvantaged businesses.
The first 747-400 airframe destined to become an Airborne Laser system arrived in Wichita, KS, last Saturday, to begin 18 months of modifications by Team ABL.
Jacques Gansler, the Pentagon's top acquisition and research official, has formed a Defense Science Board team to judge the well-being of the defense industry and recommend changes in Defense Department policies to strengthen the industry.
Andersen Consulting won a one-year contract last Friday to maintain and support information systems software for the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
The Air Force yesterday launched the 11th of 14 upgraded Lockheed Martin-built communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, the company announced.
Late yesterday the Navy announced two contract awards for the initial production of 54 multifunctional information distribution system (MIDS) low-volume terminals.
President Clinton told Congress yesterday he is extending beyond a Jan. 23 deadline a national emergency dealing with "grave acts of violence committed by foreign terrorists that disrupt the Middle East peace process."
Six months into fiscal year 2000, the Marine Corps is struggling to sign up active-duty Marines for another tour of duty.
The two infrared sensors that were supposed to carry a National Missile Defense interceptor missile to its target during a flight test last night are being singled out as the probable cause for the test's failure to destroy a ballistic missile target in the skies above the Pacific Ocean, a senior Defense Department official said today.
Defense contracting giant Boeing announced today that its net earnings in 1999 were $2.3 billion, up 106 percent from 1998. In the fourth quarter of the year, the company said net earnings were $662 million, a 42 percent increase over 1998.
Commanders of Marine Corps installations worldwide are in the midst of a threat reassessment that may lead to a change in the current Alpha status threat condition that Marine bases have been at since August 1998 when terrorists bombed several U.S. embassies in Africa.
If a National Missile Defense intercept test goes off as scheduled tonight, it will take several days for technicians to analyze data and determine whether the test shot can be considered an integrated systems test, one of the key hurdles to getting the NMD system deployed.
With the increasing reliance on precision weapons during military operations, U.S. intelligence officials need to pay as much attention to 'no strike' target lists as they do to the daily compendium of targets to be hit, Rear Adm. Lowell Jacoby, the Joint Staff's director for intelligence, said last week.