| Navy News & Undersea Technology 2003 Dave Ahearn |
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| 2003: Hang on for a fast ride-analysis.(forecast of military spending, pending military campaigns, and international politics for 2003) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Adm. Clark says Naval Academy head volunteered to leave.(Vice Admiral Richard Naughton resigns his post as superintendent of the U.S. Navy Academy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Admiral says Lockheed S-band radar good for CG (X) Cruiser.(Rear Admiral Tommy Bush of the U.S. Navy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Admirals seek more subs, C4 gear, sub detectors, UAVs, UUVs..(Panal of U.S. Navy admirals address the defense contracts regarding future equipment needs of the Navy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Aerospace industry to fight defense trade limits. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| After U.S. aid bill passes, Iraqi debt reductions sought. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Aldridge sees faster V-22 Osprey production.(Edward C. Aldridge Jr. of the U.S. Department of Defense) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| An $87 billion Afghanistan/Iraq plan seen likely to pass. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Analysts: Expected boom in defense spending not materialized.(analysis of U.S. military spending forecasts) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Analysts see bright future for defense companies, stocks. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Analyst: Surfaceships mission may yield to air assets.(review of the role of U.S. Naval fleet) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Anti-Navy think tank report is inconsistent, wrong: ASA president.(American Shipbuilding Association (ASA)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Army chief of staff enthused by V-22 osprey capability. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Australian firm to build new-tech, high-speed ship. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| BAE seeks air speed sensor technology that bolsters radar stealth.(Laser Air Speed Sensor Instruments) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Bell-Boeing gains $817 million order for Osprey aircraft material.(U.S> Navy orders for new tilt-rotor aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Boeing Canard rotor/wing completes first hover flight. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Boeing claims upper hand in fight for Navy MMA contract.(Boeing Co. puts forth best effort to win U.S. Navy aircraft contract Mliti-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Boeing defense units soar, but airliners business plunges.(Boeing Co. earnings statement for the first-quarter of 2003) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Boeing hopes Navy will buy major upgrade for Harpoon missile.(Boeing Co. makers of the Harpoon missile) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Boeing, Northrop soon may lack aircraft R&D capabilities. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Boeing reports $192 million loss in second quarter.(Boeing Co.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Boeing revenues, profits slump in third quarter. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Bush fails to exploit a true military victory: Analyst.(U.S. President George W. Bush's post-war management of Iraq is seen as a failure) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Bush finds funds for war, but not for ships to fight wars.(shipbuilding industry leader criticisms of U.S. President George W. Bush's military spending priorties) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Bush seen hammering Iraq in State of the Union Address.(United States President George W. Bush) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| CBO offers ways to cut surface ships construction outlays.(U.S. Congressional Budget Office report on recommended Navy budget savings on shipbuilding contracts) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Cebrowski cites new technologies in vertical lift aircraft.(Arthur Cebroswki of the U.S. Department of Defense discusses the design of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Cebrowski sees LCS critical to force protection.(U.S. Navy's Arthur Cebrowski view of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Cebrowski syas new ship hull halves power, fuel use.(U.S. Department of Defense chief Arthur Cebrowski speaking about the hull design advantages of the new Littoral Combat Ship) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Clark says LCS critics don't grasp emerging threats.(admiral Vern Clark of the U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| CNO Clark hints future Navy budgets tight, jog cuts seen.(Admiral Vern Clark, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Coast Guard, facing new missions, needs more funds or less work.(U.S. Cosat Guard's new role in homeland security and their need for increased funding) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Congress approves $368.2 billion defense bill, with five subs.(U.S. Congressional approval of the U.S. Department of Defense's 2004 budget) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Congress backs funding of 7 ships , LCS, JSF, Osprey.(Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) V-22 Osprey (Osprey) U. S. Congress approval of Navy budget for fiscal 2004) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Congress returns to answer defense funding questions.(U.S. Congress debate on funding of major defense procurement programs) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Congress to decide defense money issues.(U.S. Congress reviews specifics of Navy submarine construction contract) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Countdown to Iraq: War seen soon, perhaps this week.((publication was the week of March 17,2003)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Cutting crews saves money but may impact capability.(U.S. Navy ship crew) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| CVN 21 R and D to cost $5 billion, But carrier cost savings seen.(CVN 21 is the U.S. Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Danish bio-terror research. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| DARPA chief Tether urges U.S. funds for drug industry R and D.(Anthony Tether of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| DD(X) program has clout: Five biggest firms, 34 of 50 states.(number of companies and locations of companies involved in the construction of the U.S. Navy's next-generation destroyer) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Defense business: a choice of adapt or atrophy. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Defense contractors see rising weapons outlays, but fear deficits. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Defense industry globalization may pose security issues. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Digital radio may ease military bandwidth woes.(new digital radio transmission systems from HYPRES inc.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Firms mount drive against pending buy American rule.(major legislation effecting both U.S. and foreign defense industries) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Foreign nations won't share JSF cost overruns; technology concerns rise.(U.S.> Department of Defense exempts overseas partners from having to pay for cost overruns in production of Joint Strike Fighter program) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GAO faults DOD spending of anti-terrorism funds.(U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GAO finds flaws in defense trade safeguards.(U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GAO: Pentagon wastes billions yearly in corrosion costs.(General Accounting Office (GAO)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GAO praises crew-size cuts in DD(X) destroyer.(U.S. General Accounting Office praise of cost-cutting changes made to new destroyer design) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GAO see benefits in larger UCACs from Boeing, Northrop Grumman.(U.S. General Accounting Office forecast on design and use of unmanned combat aerial vehicles from Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GAO sees 31 percent overrun in Virginia class sub contracts.(U.S. General Accounting Office report on Navy shipbuilding contracts) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GAO sees costly flaws in Pentagon procurement process.(U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GD CEO says deficits won't curb defense spending.(General Dynamics Corp.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| GD takes over Veridian Corp.(General Dynamics Corp. acquires Veridian Corp.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| General dynamics cites strengths of its ACS proposal.(Aerial Common Sensor ) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| General Dynamics gets $8.7 billion for six subs: Northrop gets half.(General Dynamics Corp. to split U.S. Navy contract with Northrop Grumman Corp. to build submarines) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| General Dynamics outlook strong despite weak profit growth, analysts say. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| General Dynamics, Raytheon say their plans aren't high-risk. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Globalization rises in defense industry, more contracts likely going overseas. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Greenspan wants Iraq war uncertanties to be resolved soon.(Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stance on the economic impact a war with Iraq would have on the U.S. economy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| High-tech munitions vary widely in price, performance.(prices and rates on commonly ordered missles ordered by the U.S. Armed Forces) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Hopkins lab develops interface technology for Royal Navy.(military computer systems and software being developed by John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| House panel authorizes weapons funds Bush seeks for fiscal 2002.(Congress approves additional funding for military research) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| House panel seen adding billions to Bus defense bill.(expected legislation authorizing billions more be spent on weapons platforms for the U. S. armed forces) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Increased spending needed for new defense technologies.(Interview) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Iranian nuclear plans may incite other Mid-East nations. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Iran shows democracy is tough sell in Middle East. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Joint Strike Fighter getting plump, causing concern.(weight of Joint Strike Fighter attack aircraft continues to increase during design and development) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Joint Strike Fighter isn't overweight, Lockheed and Navy say.(production problems with the construction of Joint Strike Fighters are addressed by Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Juggling UAVs: New technology lets one person fly 3 aircraft at once.(new command and control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Laser weapons moving from Star Trek to ships. | Business | Dave Ahearn, Scott Nance |
| Lawmakers, contractors seek more helicopter R and D to offset foreign rivals.(U.S. helicopter industry requests additional funding for research and development from government) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| LCS contractors face major marketing opportunities abroad.(Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Leaders of contractors may be liable to global court charges. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed, Boeing advance in globalization.(joint ventures by defense related companies) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed chooses United Technologies to power MMA.(Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed continues IT industry consolidation with Titan buy.(analysis of Lockheed Martin's acquisition of Titan) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed given $602.6 million for international Joint Strike Fighter. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed leader sees fight to save cruiser conversion money. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed Martin fires back at lawmakers cutting JASSM funds.(U.S. Navy's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed Martin net profit plunges 25.1 percent on debt cuts. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed Martin SPY-1F radar tracks live target in test.(Lockheed Martin Corp. radar systems for Norwegian Navy frigates) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed Martin touts globalized mobile weapons for Marines. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed profit slumps 28.2 percent in second quarter.(financial report from Lockheed Martin Corp. for the second-quarter of 2003) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed to gain $60 Million for submarine acoustic systems. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Lockheed to market radar abroad, and as DDG 51 upgrade. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Major contractor teams offer bold Navy LCS proposals.(review of proposals submitted to the U.S. Navy for the design of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Marine gen. Hagee upbeat on Osprey; Harrier is safe.(Marine Corps Commandant General Michael Hagee speaking on the safety of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Movement toward war continuing; Rumsfeld warns Iraq again.(U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfled warning Iraq to disclose location of weapons of mass destruction) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Naval research unveil tiny atomic clock.(Office of Naval Research develops time keeper for use in military lasers and missile guidance systems) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy battles Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics to cut sub prices.(U.S. Navy negotiations with Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. over price of submarine construction costs) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy deploys Lockheed Martin reconnaissance system.(U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin Corp.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy formally solicits design proposals for Lottoral Combat Ship.(U.S. Navy's next-generation vessel) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy gains $14 million billion for research, a fourth of DOD R and D funding. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy kills programs for public to support service members.(U.S. Navy and Marine Corps stop programs allowing public to send food to service members for fear programs could be used for acts of terrorism) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy, Marine brass praise Osprey: V-22 gets $192 million more.(U.S. Navy and Marine Corp officials praise abilities of V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy seeks new-tech devices to warn of bio or chem attacks.(U.S. Navy search for biological and chemical attack protection equipment) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy selects General Dynamics , Lockheed, Raytheon for LCS.(U.S. Navy awards design team for contract work on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy solicits maritime aircraft bids: Boeing, Lockheed compete. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Navy switches to S-band radar on DD (X); opening for Lockheed.(U.S. Navy announcement that it will go with S-band radar opens up opportunity defense contract for Lockheed Martin Corp.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| New destroyer to command innovative technology.(Design and construction of the U.S. Navy's next-generation of destroyers) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| New technology allows navy, marines to passage minefields safely. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| New technology helped U.S. forces win in Iraq.(use of unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles by U.S. military) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| New-tech plane muffles sonic boom in test. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| New tech vest might have saved sailor who drowned.(U.S. Navy issuance of new lifesaving vest not in time to save one sailor) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| N. Korea seen producing nukes that could strike U.S.(North Korea's development of a nuclear weapons program) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop CEO sugar urges deploying good, not perfect, ABM.(Ronald Sugar, president of Northrop Grumman Corp. on deployment strategies for anti-ballistic missiles (ABM)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman beats competitors with 16.8 percent profit gain.(financial report from Northrop Grumman Corp. for the first-quater of 2003) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman completes acceptance trials on USS Ronald Reagan.(sea trials by Northrop Grumman Corp. of its aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman COO objects to justice dept. lawsuit on billing. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman gains $129 million for Deepwater cutter.(Northrop Grumman Corp. design and materials procurement contract with the U.S. Coast Guard) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman leads the pack in quarterly financial results. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin in contractor ranks. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman pledges CVN 21 carrier delivery on time in 2014.(Northrop Grumman Corp. contract with U.S. Navy for aircraft carrier) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman, seek plane fatigue technology. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman sees solid growth in Pentagon contracts.(company forecast by the chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corp.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop Grumman UAV delivers payloads to multiple targets.(unmanned aerial vehicle) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop joins Raytheon Littoral combat ship team. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop reaps stronger profits and sales. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop still sees shot at LCS work; gains work on submarines.(Northrop Grumman Corp. defense contracts) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Northrop technology eases ship navigation challenge.(Northrop Grumman Corp. products being used on U.S. Naval warships) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| oEyeso watch your eyes move, in new tracking technology.(Eyetracking Inc.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| ONR foster small UAV with big capabilities.(U.S. Office of Naval Research design work on unmanned aerial vehicles) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| ONR tech to aid severely wounded sailors, marines.(medical technology developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to be used to treat military personnel) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Osprey gains $42 million added funds in two contracts.(U.S. Navy contract with Bell-Boeing for continued development and testing of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Osprey hydraulic system leak caused by errant clamp.(V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Osprey operational in 2007; margin on descent rate to be pared.(V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Osprey production pace may rise, with caveats.(production management of the V-22 Osprey military aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Pentagon might increase annual Osprey purchasers sooner.(U.S. Department of Defense plans to increase the rate it purchases V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Powell hands U.N. evidence of Iraqi wrongs, as U.S. forces move.(U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Raytheon continuing profits down 16.6 percent in second quarter.(Raytheon Corp.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Raytheon, Northrop, General Dynamics win big Navy awards. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Raytheon profits trimmed by pension-fund contributions.(Raytheon Co. earnings statement for the first-quarter of 2003) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Rep. Lewis rejects Va. class multi-year buy, wary on JSF.(U.S. House of Representatives Jerry Lewis position on Virginia class submarine purchases and involvement in the Joint Strike Force program (JSF)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Rough nanotechnology smoothly gives barnacle the slip. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Row erupts over move to alter civil service sield for DOD civilians.(stripping of U. S citizens of civil service protection for the honor of working for the government's department of defense) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Rumsfeld, Aldridge regret dudget funs too few ships.(U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Edward Aldridge, U.S. Navy under secretary) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Rumsfeld says defense budget process is broke, needs fixing.(U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Rumsfeld sees continued casualties in terrorist attacks.(Donald Rumsfeld) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Senate panel approves $6.6 billion to fund seven new ships.(United States approval of funding for ship construction for the U.S. Navy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Senate passes defens appropriations bill.(U.S. Department of Defense budget of $369.1 billion approved by Senate) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Senators, contractors press for multi-year shipbuilding funds.(industry promotion and lobbying efforts by the American Shipbuilding Association) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Sessions warms Pentagon on buying overseas.(U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions concerns over potential job losses to foreign countries if Department of Defense purchases abroad) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| State department sees no 'Regime Change' in Iran. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Stellar companies submit LCS proposals to Navy today.(U.S. Navy request for proposals deadline closes for Littoral Combat Ship designs) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Tactical Tomahawk missile scores well in test.(U.S. Navy missile testing) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Tactical Tomahawk scores another successful test flight.(Tomahawk cruise missile) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Taylor says Navy already decided LCS specs; Navy denies it. [U.S. Congressional Representative Gene Taylor accuses Navy of lying about Littoral Combat Ship LCS] [design] | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Terror attack on food supply could freeze military units. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Todd Shipyards gains $17.4 million for carrier overhaul.(Tood Pacific Shipyards Corp. maintenance and repair contract with the U.S. Navy for work on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Top Pentagon weapons buyer wary of contractor takeovers. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| UAVs compete, show varying strengths: no clear winner.(display and demonstrations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by the aerospace industry for the U.S. Navy) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Unmanneed vehicles won't land on carrier decks soon. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| U.S. Defense Contractors, unions, see buy-American law imperiled.(U.S. Department of Defense purchasing from foreign companies) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| UTC chief David affirms per share 2003.(George David of United Technologies Corp. says shares will hit $4.55 to $4.80) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| UTC uses acquisition money to buy a non-defense firm.(United Technologies Corp. acquisition of Chubb PLC.) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| UUV works hard, seems smart, is a team player.(unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV)) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| V-22 Osprey attains 500 test-flight hours; Aldridge praises it.(Edward Aldridge of the U.S. Armed Forces appraisal of Boeing's development and testing of the V-22 Osprey military aircraft) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor seen passing fast descent tests. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Weakening dollar pressures European firms seeking U.S. contracts. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Will the next war be on the Korean Peninsula?(political and military analysis of the possibility of a second U.S. war with North Korea) | Business | Dave Ahearn |
| Wynne open to foreign, U.S. contractors buying each other. | Business | Dave Ahearn |
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