Monday, October 25, 2010

DTN News: Boeing Receives US Army Contract For Low Rate Initial Production Of AH-64D Apache Block III

Defense News: DTN News: Boeing Receives US Army Contract For Low Rate Initial Production Of AH-64D Apache Block III
Source: DTN News / Boeing
(NSI News Source Info) MESA, Ariz., - October 26, 2010: The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced it has received a $247 million contract to begin Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) for the U.S. Army’s AH-64D Apache Block III helicopter, the most advanced multi-role combat helicopter in the world. The contract, signed by the U.S. government on Oct. 22, covers production of eight Apache Block III helicopters in the Lot 1 configuration.

An Acquisition Decision Memorandum signed by the Department of Defense on Oct. 7 authorized the program to enter the LRIP phase to produce 51 aircraft. The first LRIP delivery is scheduled for October 2011.

The Apache Block III helicopter enhances the capabilities of the combat-proven AH-64D Apache by delivering superior flight performance and dramatically increased networked communications capabilities.

"The road map for the Apache Block III program has been clearly defined and the U.S. Army and Boeing are successfully working together to provide these advanced attack helicopters to soldiers in the field," said Lt. Col. Dan Bailey, Apache Block III product manager for the Army.

"Working together throughout the Apache Block III program's system development and demonstration phase since 2006, the Army, Boeing and our industry teammates have achieved our objectives on cost and on schedule," said Scott Rudy, Apache Block III program manager for Boeing. "I'm confident that the team will continue to effectively apply its collective expertise as the program moves into the production phase."

The current Army acquisition objective is for 690 AH-64D Apache Block III aircraft. The helicopters will be assembled, flight tested and delivered from the Boeing Global Strike facility in Mesa.

Key enhancements for aviators will include an improved drive system featuring the 701D engine, composite main rotor blades and a new split-torque face gear transmission, as well as increased networked communications capabilities.

The Apache Block III features open systems architecture and 26 advanced technology improvements, including level 4 unmanned aerial vehicle control for increased situational awareness. This helicopter configuration has already demonstrated the flexibility to rapidly integrate technology changes throughout its service life.

"The Apache Block III helicopter program is the cornerstone of our U.S. Army customer’s plan of continued sustainment through modernization," said Tommy Filler, acting vice president, Boeing Apache and AH-6 Programs.

A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world's largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world’s largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $34 billion business with 68,000 employees worldwide. Follow us on Twitter: @BoeingDefense.

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Boeing Global Strike Communications
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DTN News: Boeing Prepares To Install Beam Control System On High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator

Defense News: DTN News: Boeing Prepares To Install Beam Control System On High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator
Source: DTN News / Boeing
(NSI News Source Info) HUNTSVILLE, Ala., - October 26, 2010: The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that its High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) team in Huntsville is installing subassemblies on the Oshkosh Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT), while a HEL TD team in Albuquerque, N.M., is integrating the laser beam director assembly with the beam control system.

These technical integration tasks are being performed to prepare for installation of the beam control system on the HEMTT later this year.

HEL TD is a solid-state laser system demonstrator that will verify the ability to shoot down rockets, artillery and mortars. Boeing is developing the system under contract to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

"We are applying the best of Boeing to deliver this ground-breaking technology to the warfighter as soon as possible," said Blaine Beardsley, Boeing HEL TD program manager. "The HEL TD program provides a great opportunity to apply the ultra-precision, speed-of-light benefits of directed energy that will dramatically improve our customer’s defenses on the battlefield."

The subassemblies being installed on the eight-wheel, 500-horsepower HEMTT include a generator and heating, ventilation and air conditioning units. The vehicle also is equipped with a system enclosure, a structure that will hold much of its critical hardware, including the beam control system and beam director.

After installation of the beam control system onto the HEMTT, HEL TD will enter low-power system testing at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. These tests, scheduled for next year, will demonstrate the HEL TD system's ability to acquire, track and target moving projectiles. The HEMTT will later be equipped with a high-energy laser that can destroy those targets.

HEL TD will acquire, track and select an aimpoint on a target; then the system will receive the laser beam from HEL TD's laser device, reshape and align it, and focus it on the target. The system includes mirrors, high-speed processors and high-speed optical sensors.

Boeing is developing directed energy systems for a variety of U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy applications. Besides HEL TD, these systems include the Free Electron Laser, the Tactical Relay Mirror System, and the Compact 3-D Imaging Camera.

Boeing is the largest aerospace company in Alabama and one of the state's largest employers. Current company operations in Huntsville include the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program and other missile defense work, such as the Arrow system and the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 seeker, as well as work associated with Ares I, the International Space Station, Army Integrated Logistics, Brigade Combat Team Modernization, SBInet, and engineering for the 787 and the P-8A Poseidon.

A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world's largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world's largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $34 billion business with 68,000 employees worldwide. Follow us on Twitter: @BoeingDefense.

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Strategic Missile & Defense Systems
703-872-4245
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Patricia Soloveichik
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256-476-6046
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DTN News: Boeing Paints 1st Production A160T Hummingbird Unmanned Rotorcraft

Defense News: DTN News: Boeing Paints 1st Production A160T Hummingbird Unmanned Rotorcraft
Source: DTN News / Boeing
(NSI News Source Info) MESA, Ariz.,- October 26, 2010: Boeing [NYSE: BA] recently returned the first production A160T Hummingbird unmanned rotorcraft, A020, to the assembly line after applying the aircraft's final, light-gray coat of paint.

Last week, Boeing submitted a bid that offers the world record-holding A160T in response to the Naval Air Systems Command's Request for Proposal for Cargo Unmanned Aircraft Systems Services.

Boeing is building the Hummingbird at its facility in Mesa and expects to complete A020 by the end of this year.

Contact:

Marc Sklar
Boeing Military Aircraft
480-773-5266
marc.a.sklar@boeing.com

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DTN News: Indian Navy To Shop For Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Spy Drones

Defense News: DTN News: Indian Navy To Shop For Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Spy Drones
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources TOI
(NSI News Source Info) NEW DELHI, India - October 26, 2010: With terror as well as conventional threats emanating from sea remaining a clear and present danger, India wants to keep hawk-eyed tabs on the entire Indian Ocean Region (IOR). And, if required, "kill" any threat before it approaches Indian shores.

After finalizing the acquisition of 12 P-8I Poseidon long-range maritime reconnaissance (LRMR) aircraft for $3.1 billion, the Navy has now re-launched the hunt for six to eight new medium-range surveillance (MRMR) planes and additional spy drones. The defence ministry floated global RFIs (request for information) for the MRMR aircraft, with an operating range of over 350 nautical miles, and HALE (high-altitude, long-endurance) unmanned aerial vehicles, with a service ceiling above 40,000 feet and endurance over 25 hours, earlier this month.

The radar-packed LRMR and MRMR planes, both of which will also be equipped with anti-ship and submarine warfare capabilities in the shape of deadly missiles, as well as the UAVs form part of Navy`s plan for an effective three-tier aerial surveillance grid in the IOR.

This comes at a time when the government, jolted out of its slumber by the 26/11 terror strikes in Mumbai, is also going in for a major upgrade of the Coast Guard`s air wing.
In addition to the existing 24 Dorniers and 21 helicopters, the government has approved 42 new aircraft for the Coast Guard, which is also holding trials for six MRMR aircraft with Beriev-200 and Bombardier-Q400 being the contenders in the Rs 1,100 crore project. Then, Navy is all set to get its communication and surveillance satellite, with an around 1,000 nautical mile footprint over IOR, in what will be India`s first dedicated military satellite.

To be launched by ISRO soon, the geo-stationary satellite will ensure a quantum jump in Navy`s C4ISR (command, control, communication, computer, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) capabilities. By networking all its warships, submarines and aircraft among themselves as well as with operational centres ashore through high-speed data links, the Navy hopes to detect maritime threats in real-time to ensure swift retaliatory action.

This is necessary since India has a vast 5,422-km coastline, 1,197 islands and 2.01 million sq km of Exclusive Economic Zone, which will increase to around 3 million sq km after the delineation of the continental shelf, apart from its primary area of strategic interest stretching from Persian Gulf to Malacca Strait.

As was first reported by TOI, the defence ministry recently cleared the acquisition of four more P-8I Poseidon aircraft, which will add to the eight such LRMR planes already contracted from Boeing under the $2.1 billion deal inked in January 2009. The first P-8I is slated for induction in early-2013.

Incidentally, the MRMR procurement process had also begun some years ago but it got derailed due to a single-vendor situation. The naval staff qualitative requirements for the MRMR planes are now being drafted afresh.

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DTN News: Kyrgyzstan’s Uncertain Future Looms Over Fate Of U.S. Air Base

Defense News: DTN News: Kyrgyzstan’s Uncertain Future Looms Over Fate Of U.S. Air Base
Source: David Wasson - The Spokemans Review
(NSI News Source Info) MANAS TRANSIT CENTER, Kyrgyzstan - October 26, 2010: Taking advantage of an invitation to tour this small U.S. air base as a friend of a civilian Kyrgyz national who works here, tobacco producer Ulvgbek Abazgano took a moment to reflect as he struggled to describe what he was feeling.

The roads are paved and smooth. The buildings, primarily reinforced tents and other temporary quarters common among U.S. expeditionary bases, all have hot and cold running water, flush toilets, heat and air conditioning. Food is plentiful.

“It’s like a small America here,” said Abazgano, who speaks some English but relied on an interpreter to help him find the right words.

The strategically located Manas, where hundreds of airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane are regularly deployed, is a key supply and refueling hub for U.S. and coalition combat operations in nearby Afghanistan.

But after nine years in the former Soviet republic, and at least one scuttled eviction notice, the base’s future remains unclear.

Political turmoil, pitting pro-democracy reformers against pro-Moscow hardliners for control of the impoverished nation, has turned the base into a wedge issue.

U.S. military commanders insist their sole focus is the mission at hand, which is quickly getting troops, cargo and fuel into Afghanistan. They’re content to let the State Department and others tend to the internal politics of Kyrgyzstan, the only nation in the world to host both U.S. and Russian military bases.

Whether they like it or not, though, the roughly 1,000 military men and women deployed at Manas also serve as de facto diplomats, particularly with the Air Force embarking on expansion plans that put greater emphasis on large-scale permanent improvements.

Now under way, for example, is a $31 million tarmac expansion that will enable all military aircraft to be moved into secure locations away from the nearby commercial terminal at Manas International Airport. The base uses the commercial airport’s runway.

Col. Dwight Sones, commander of the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing at Manas, defends the project and its cost while acknowledging he’s uncertain how long the base will be here.

Its one-year, $60 million lease for the land the base is built on expires next year, meaning the base’s future is in the hands of a new government being assembled from among the five political parties that won seats in Kyrgyzstan’s newly empowered parliament earlier this month.

“You can’t keep holding off on projects that need to be done,” said Sones, who took over as base commander in June and has launched ambitious efforts to engage and support the Kyrgyz population, with a greater emphasis on humanitarian assistance.

“Many times, people will ask, ‘Will the base be here next year?’ ” he said. “People have been asking that every year, and we’ve been here nine years now.”

Sones said he believes Kyrgyzstan is important to America, both for its proximity to the war effort in Afghanistan and as an emerging democracy in a part of the world ruled for decades under authoritarian control.

“Kyrgyzstan is the crown jewel of Asia,” Sones said last week during an interview with Spokane-area journalists in his briefing room at Manas headquarters.

Charismatic and confident, Sones has no trouble working a crowd even when he needs a translator to convey his message.

Earlier this month, he welcomed an estimated 2,000 Kyrgyz nationals, primarily friends and family of civilian employees from the Bishkek area who work on the base, drawing several rounds of cheers and applause.

He posed for pictures. Taught youngsters how to fist-bump. And rarely missed an opportunity to extol the benefits of U.S. and Kyrgyz partnerships: “With positive relationships, you get so much more done,” Sones told a handful of Kyrgyz journalists from Bishkek in an impromptu news conference near a barbecue pit where long lines of base visitors were waiting for American-style beef ribs.

Outside observers applaud the aggressive outreach efforts but said U.S. officials may have waited too long.

“One of the reasons that base is on tenuous grounds is because there’s been a failure by the U.S. to communicate the benefits to the residents of Kyrgyzstan,” said Sam Patten, senior Eurasia program manager for the Washington-based Freedom House, a nonpartisan watchdog group that promotes democratic values. “The United States offers them a better option than some of these other countries looking to influence them.”

Namely, China and Russia.

Kyrgyzstan, a nation of 5.5 million people, is at a crossroads.

Much of the civil infrastructure, from roads to schools to utilities, was built by the Russians when it was part of the USSR, and has gone largely neglected for nearly 20 years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. A revolution in 2005 swept into power a new coalition, which was ousted following violent street protests this past April. An interim government is in place until representatives of the five political parties that won seats in parliament can form a coalition government.

“My sense is the people of that country want results,” said Patten, who spent three weeks in Kyrgyzstan this fall. “They’re tired of elections, and talk of change. They want electricity and heat as winter comes.”

Fairchild airmen have taken on key roles in the community outreach efforts, volunteering to deliver humanitarian supplies and help rebuild decaying schools, emergency shelters and other community fixtures. The base’s doctors have organized educational seminars and training for Kyrgyz physicians.

“We actually make a lot of friends out here,” said Airman 1st Class Wesley Nesbitt, who helps oversee Kyrgyz contractors hired at the base and is among those volunteering to deliver humanitarian aid, sometimes digging into his own pocket to pay for needed supplies. “It’s really nice to get to know people and help where we can.”

Nesbitt is helping design many of the base improvements that military commanders are considering.

Base offices are located mostly in portables, including converted cargo containers for easy placement and removal. Many others are still in reinforced tents symbolic of short-term, expeditionary bases.

“Our hope, of course, is to make these facilities more permanent and be good partners with the Kyrgyz people,” Nesbitt said. “But they just had elections here, and that could factor in.”

Sultan Aiylchiev, 23, a recent college graduate and financial services consultant in Bishkek, acknowledged that Kyrgyz feelings about the U.S. base vary.

“It’s really complicated,” Aiylchiev said, using an interpreter to help him with his English. “For one side, it’s all political. But unemployment in our country is high, and there’s also the economic side of it.

“What the base shows is there’s another way of life.”

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DTN News: Japan, India Sign Deal To Boost Trade, Investment

Defense News: DTN News: Japan, India Sign Deal To Boost Trade, Investment
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources
(NSI News Source Info) TOKYO, Japan - October 25, 2010: The leaders of India and Japan signed a sweeping agreement Monday to boost trade and agreed to speed up talks toward a civilian nuclear energy deal - despite sensitivity in Japan over India's past atomic test blasts.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the conclusion of nearly 4-year negotiations on the economic partnership agreement a "historic achievement." The deal, which needs to be ratified by Japan's parliament to come into force, slashes tariffs on goods from auto parts to bonsai plants and introduces measures to promote investment and deal with intellectual property rights.

Forging this kind of pact is increasingly a priority for Japan, which sees itself falling behind regional rival South Korea in this area.

The deal could also be a step toward reducing Japan's heavy dependence on the Chinese market after a spat over disputed islands has strained ties between Beijing and Tokyo and led to anti-Japanese protests in China, some calling for boycotts of Japanese products.

Despite the size of their economies, Japan and India have had limited trade, which totaled 636 billion yen, or about $7.7 billion, for the first six months of the year, just 1 percent of Japan's global trade. Trade with China, Japan's top partner, totaled $176 billion over the same period.

Kan and Singh also agreed to speed up talks toward a civilian nuclear cooperation deal that would allow Japanese companies to export nuclear power generation technology and related equipment to India - a boost to Japan's flagging economy.

But India's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has stirred up some public opposition to Tokyo's decision to pursue talks with India on the matter.

Kan said he made it clear in his talks with Singh that India understands the feelings of people in Japan as the only country to suffer an atomic bomb attack.

While India announced a moratorium on further nuclear testing, Japan wants New Delhi to be more explicit on that commitment. The two sides are also formulating what would be the consequences if India were to conduct a nuclear test.

Monday's move is a step forward from when former Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada visited New Delhi in August and cautioned India against any further testing of nuclear devices, adding that no timeline was set for the conclusion of a civil energy deal.

An India-Japan nuclear agreement is crucial for international nuclear power plant companies to do business with India. While U.S.-based firms GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Westinghouse Electric, a subsidiary of Japan's Toshiba Corp., are waiting to set up plants in India, some key components for the plants are supplied by Japanese companies.

New Delhi had faced a nuclear trade ban since conducting its first atomic test in 1974 and refusing to sign nonproliferation accords. It began emerging from the nuclear isolation in 2008 when it signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States. The 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group then lifted a three-decade global ban on nuclear trade with India.

The two leaders also signed a memo of understanding on visa simplification aimed at increasing tourism and educational exchanges.

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DTN News: Pakistan TODAY October 25, 2010 - Karachi's Tit-For-Tat Ethnic River Of Blood

Defense News: DTN News: Pakistan TODAY October 25, 2010 - Karachi's Tit-For-Tat Ethnic River Of Blood
Source: By Syed Shoaib Hasan -BBC News
(NSI News Source Info) KARACHI, Pakistan - October 25, 2010: The shutters are down and the gates are padlocked at the spare-parts market in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

Thirteen people - shopkeeper and customers - were shot dead here in cold blood on 18 October.

But the massacre was not the work of criminal thugs or self-styled Islamic holy warriors.

It began as a turf-war between two political parties, but has evolved into tit-for-tat ethnic cleansing.

Imran, a shopkeeper, escaped the slaughter by hiding in his shop when the shooting started.

But not everyone was so lucky: Imran heard his neighbours - Anees Rahman and his two sons - being gunned gunned down.

"They also tried to hide inside - but the gunmen saw them," said Imran.

"Mr Rahman made his sons stay inside the shop and came out himself to negotiate with the men.

"He said, 'You have me; let my sons go.'

"But the gunmen shot him and then pulled up the shutters and opened fire."

Imran and all other eyewitnesses to whom the BBC spoke at the Rahman family funerals were in agreement about the gunmen's identities:

"They were Baloch and they came from Lyari," Imran said.

"I heard them asking, 'Who is Urdu-speaking here?'"

The Rahmans, along with the rest of those killed, belong to the Urdu-speaking community.

The mourners were peaceful, but they were also angry at the government.

"The government has failed to keep the peace in Karachi," Asim, a mourner, told the BBC.

"If they can't deal with these people, they should give us a free hand. We will take care of them ourselves."

Politician murdered

The shootings at the Shershah market, which sells mainly mechanical parts, followed two days of targeted attacks.

At least 40 people died in the violence, which started on the eve of a hotly-contested election and culminated in the Shershah market slaughter.

The vote was for a seat in the provincial parliament, after the former incumbent was murdered in August.

The MQM political party, which dominates Karachi, won the election, as expected.

It is supported by the city's majority Urdu-speaking community.

Their rivals in the campaign were the ANP, which is dominated by Pashtuns.

Pakistan's ruling PPP political party decided to back the ANP in the poll.

Partners and enemies

The ANP and MQM are minority partners in the PPP-run central government.

But in Karachi, the two parties are sworn enemies.

Each side accuses the other of killing rival party activists.

It's not just the Urdu-speaking community that has been targeted.

In fact, most of those killed belong to the Pashtun and Baloch communities.

One of these is Rahman, a day labourer.

An ethnic Baloch, he was shot dead in retaliatory killings that took place after the market attack.

"My son was a hard-working young man," said Jaan Bibi, Rahman's ailing, widowed mother.

"He had no political connections; he was the sole breadwinner for our family."

His brother, Imran, says Rahman was stopped with two other men as they were returning from work.

"They let the Urdu-speaking man go, but shot my brother and another man because they were Baloch," said Imran.

Rahman's family lives in Lyari, where the men who attacked the spare-parts market are said to be based.

Security agencies have said that the massacre was the work of the Lyari-based People's Amn (Peace) Committee.

Urban powder keg

But Shakeeb Baloch, a leader of the group, strongly denies this.

"Everybody knows the agencies act on the behalf of the governor here," he said.

Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad, the governor of the southern province of Sindh, where Karachi is located, is an MQM member.

He offered to resign recently, citing loss of control over security agencies.

"We are not a political party; we are just a social group and want to make our voices heard by the government," he said.

"We have never been involved in attacks on anyone, but we reserve the right to defend ourselves."

The Urdu-speaking community is not one to let things lie.

Karachi is the country's business capital and only operational commercial port.

Huge concrete apartment complexes dot the skyline, cheek by jowl with some of the poorest slums in the world.

It is this disparity which underpins almost all the problems in this mega-city of about 18 million people.

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DTN News: World Top Stories / Headlines - News Dated October 25, 2010

Defense News: DTN News: World Top Stories / Headlines - News Dated October 25, 2010
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