Navy News & Undersea Technology 2003 - Abstracts

Navy News & Undersea Technology 2003
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Analysts: Expected boom in defense spending not materialized.(analysis of U.S. military spending forecasts)BusinessDave Ahearn
ATK given $222.6 million missile design contract.(ATK Missile Systems Co. awarded U.S. Navy contract to develop advanced guided missiles)Business 
Australian twin-hull ship breaks speed record.Business 
BAE fills major role in Navy Littoral Combat Ship bid.(BAE SYSTEMS PLC)BusinessGene J. Koprowski
BAE gains $16 million contract change for C41 work.(BAE Systems Applied Technologies Inc. contract upgrade with the U.S. Navy)Business 
BAE given $46.3 million pact for super Hornet aircraft gear.(BAE Systems, North America contract with the U.S. Navy)Business 
Bell-Boeing gains $22.2 million for V-22 Osprey program.(U.S. Navy grants company additional money for continued research and development of the controversial tilt-rotor aircraft)Business 
Bell-Boeing gains $9.8 million more for V-22 program.(V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft)Business 
Boeing awards Northrop Grumman $160 million radar contract.Business 
Boeing gains $12.8 million to tear plane apart.(Boeing Co.)Business 
Boeing gains$36.3 million missile order for Egypt.(Boeing Co. contract with Egyptian military for Harpoon missiles)Business 
Boeing, Insitu to produce UAV for military or civilian use.(Boeing Co. and Insitu Group plans for production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV))Business 
Boeing, Ratheon gain $26 million for F/A-18 work.(U.S. Navy contract awards to Boeing Co. and Raytheon Co.)Business 
Bush names Grossenbacher to top nuclear regulatory post.(U.S. President George W. Bush appoints John J. Grossenbacher as commissioner of nuclear regulatory Commission)BusinessJeff Beattie
Buy American, dollar rate, Iraq finance issues advance.Business 
Caddell Construction gains $8.4 million contract charge.(Caddell Construction Company Inc. construction contract with the U.S. Navy)Business 
CBO sees defense spending gap; ships funds $57 billion short.(defense spending projections from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO))BusinessAhearn
Coast Guard faces funding gap for Deepwater.(possible funding problems with long-term aspects of budget)BusinessNathan Hodge
Congress close to urging study of defense industry.Business 
Contracting for homeland security R and D.(conference on U.S. Department of Homeland Security, purchasing trends and winning research contracts)Business 
Contractors follw military into harm's way.(dangers facing defense contractor employees while working in or near battle zones)BusinessAnn Roosevelt
Cubic Defense wins $31.8 million - $92 million contract.(Cubic Defense Systems Inc. contract with the U.S. Navy)Business 
DDL device to check bomb contentws for $115.8 million.(U.S. Navy contract with Science Applications International Corp.)Business 
Delphinus gains $28.4 million submarines engineering work.(U.S. Navy contract with Delphinus Engineering)Business 
Earl Industries gains $8.2 million for carrier Truman work.Business 
ERAPSCO gains sonobuoy contract.(U.S. Navy contract with ERAPSCO)Business 
Even as it's grounded, V-22 Osprey draws plaudits.(continuing problems and supporters of the V-22 Osprey aircraft)BusinessDave Aharn
Former Cheney firm receives $10.7 million work in Kuwait.(subsidiary of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's former firm awarded government contract for construction work in Kuwait)Business 
For military wares maketers, exporting is a paperwork jungle.(laws governing the U.S. export of military technology)Business 
GAO finds Russian nukes at risk, including three Navy sites.(U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO))Business 
General Dynamics dividend unchanged at 32 cents a share.Business 
General Dynamics Electric Boat gains $17.2 million contract charge.(U.S. Navy contract upgrade for Electric Boat Corp. division of General Dynamics Corp. )Business 
General Dynamics gains $288 million for T-AKE ship.(General Dynamic Corp. subsidiary, National Steel and Shipbuilding wins contract to build ship for U.S. Navy)Business 
General Dynamics reports 1.8 percent drop in per-share profit.(General Dynamics Corp. financial report for the first-quarter of 2003)Business 
General Dynamics unit, electric boat, gains $24 million sub contracts.(U.S. Navy contract for submarine procurement needs)Business 
High Technology Solutions wins $8.5 million pact.(U.S. Navy contract with Hight Technology Solutions Inc. for target operations work)Business 
Integrated Defense Technologies unit wins Navy launcher work.(Metric Systems, a division of Integrated Defense Technologies Inc.)Business 
Lockheed Martin, BAE, join on missile defense.(international market development efforts by Lockheed Martin Corp. and BAE Systems, North America)Business 
Lockheed Martin gains $13 million anti-mine systems contract.(U.S. Navy contract for fixed price anti-mine gear contract)Business 
Lockheed Martin gains $9.5 million Saab Systems radar work.(Saab Systems Proprietary Ltd.)Business 
Lockheed Martin picks GE for US101 engine.BusinessRon Laurenzo
Lockheed Martin ship-based antenna to track missiles.Business 
Lockheed Martin wins $27.6 million to $2.15 billion systems contract.(U.S. Navy contract with Lockheed Martin Corp. for military electronics )Business 
Lockheed Martin wins $40 million in LGTR TUGV work.(Lockheed Martin Corp. witns Laser Guided Training Rounds (LGTR) whidcle it may lede to a contract fot the construction of the Tactical unmanned Ground vehicle)Business 
Lockheed profits jump 10 percent as sales , revenues climb.(Lockheed Martin Corp. earnings statement for the first-quarter of 2003)BusinessDave Ahearns
MOD: IAVs a key to U.K.'s future defense strategy.(United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense speaking on the needs of the Royal Navy)BusinessGene Koprowski
Navy, Army labs help combat SARS disease.(branches of the U.S. military assist in the battle against Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS))Business 
Navy awards $16.4 million in construction work on housing, fuel tanks.(Garco Construction Co. and M.A. Mortenson Co. contracts)Business 
Navy, Congress, battle over subs funding; crisis may loom.BusinessDavid Ahearn
Navy gives Northrop Grumman $1.9 billion Hawkeye contract.(Hawkeye advanced early warning aircraft)Business 
Navy gives Osprey tilt-rotor program additional $208 million.(additional U.S. Navy funding of V-22 Osprey development money goes to Bell-Boeing)Business 
Navy seeks contractor to overhaul USS Oscar Austin (DDG79).(U.S. Navy request for proposals for ship maintained and repair contract)Business 
Navy sits on almost $1 billion of unneed funds, GAO reports.(U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO))Business 
Navy top 50 companies and category of procurement - fiscal year 2002.(Illustration)Business 
Nine Northtop Grumman workers die in Saudi terror bombs.(terrorist bomb in Riyadh, Saudi, Arabia)Business 
Northrop gains $49 million work; completes drone review.(U.S. Navy contract awarded to Northrop Grumman Corp. for avionic systems for drone aircraft)Business 
Northrop Grumman declares usual 40-cents-a-share quarterly dividend.Business 
Northrop Grumman delivers another Fire Scout UAV to Navy.(Fire Scout is an unmanned aerial vehicle (VAV))Business 
Northrop Grumman gains $57.9 million submarine contract.(U.S. Navy contract with Northrop Grumman Marine Systems)Business 
Northrop Grumman gains up to $160 million for carrier UCAV.(Northrop Grumman Corp. wins Defense Advanced research projects agency contract)Business 
Northrop may use steel from World Trade Center in USS New York.(Northrop Grumman Corp. plans for construction of assault ship for the U.S. Navy)Business 
Osprey begins cold-weather tests, wins praise.Business 
Osprey programs receives $123.2 million in new funds.(U.S. Navy additional funding to Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office for the continuing development and production of the V-22 Osprey military aircraft)Business 
Parsons wins $10 million - $100 million target range pact.(Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group contract with the U.S. Navy)Business 
Purdue U devises flaws warning for JSF, other platforms.(Purdue University test composite materials to be used in future military weapons)Business 
Raytheon gains $250 million missile engineering contract change.(U.S. Navy amend Raytheon Co. contract upward)Business 
Raytheon gains $25.8 million- $125 million JSF work from Northrop.(Raytheon Corp. contracts for development of a new generation global positioning systems for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program)Business 
Raytheon gains $45.5 million Phalanx contract change.(U.S. Navy upgrade to Raytheon Co. work on Phalanx anti-ship missile weapons system)Business 
Raytheon gains $80.8 million air-to-surface JSOW order.(Raytheon Co. contract with the U.S. Navy for Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) units)Business 
Raytheon given $8.4 million for UAV control system.(Raytheon Co. contract advance for control system development of unmanned aerial vehicles)Business 
Raytheon names new leader for DD(X) destroyer program.(Raytheon Co. names Mike Hoeffler to head U.S. Navy program for new destroyer)Business 
Rewport assails LCS program as unwise, hits CNO on fleet growth.(criticism of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS))BusinessDave Ajearn.
Senate panel hits LCS plans, use of R and D funds for new ships.Business 
SpeechGear, ONR help Multi-Nation Troops speak same language.(use of language translators for troops from different countries to communiate)Business 
Submarine test fires missiles twice.Business 
Sugar sees Pentagon contract opportunities for Norhtrop Grumman.(Ronald Sugar forecasts huge contract for Northrop Grumman Corp. with the government in the years to come)BusinessJohn M. Donnelly, Dave Ahhearn
Super Hornet tests advanced radar system, Boeing says.(Boeing's airborne radar systems being tested onboard U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet attack aircraft)Business 
Taiwan submarine deal delayed for funding lack.(planned U.S. sale of diesel powered submarines to Taiwan Navy is put on hold)Business 
Textron gains $11.2 million contract change for ship work.(Textron Marine and Land Systems gets extension of existing maintenance and repair contract)Business 
UAV moves from remote control to self-guided.(Northrop Grumman's new self-guided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV))Business 
U.K. workers fear Thales, not BAE, may win British carriers contract.(United Kingdom)(BAE SYSTEMS)(aircraft carriers)BusinessGene Koprowski
United Technologies net profit up 1.3 percent in second quarter.(United Technologies Corp. financial report for the second-quarter of fiscal 2003)Business 
URS unit to help integrate Navy weapons.(URS Corp. contract with the U.S. Navy for engineering and technical support services)Business 
U.S. public split on war in Iraq poll shows.(public opinion poll on the truthfulness of reports regarding Iraq's pre-war development of weapons of mass destruction)Business 
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) commissioning detailed.Business 
V-22 Osprey production to rise; seven more planes by '09.(V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor military aircraft)BusinessDve Ahearn
V-22 Osprey returns to flight after hydraulic lines fix.(U.S. Navy testing and development of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft)Business 
Wynne pledges to boost defense tech funding.(procurement official)Business 
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