* The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) commissioned a study [PDF] to measure the likely impact on US employment, were automatic cuts to be triggered by a lack of consensus from the Super Committee. The conveniently scary result is a loss of 1 million jobs, incl. about 300,000 in California, Virginia and Texas. This “sequestration” outcome seems unlikely, but few of the committee’s deliberations have been made public, and time is running short.
* Over in Mayport, FL, they’re worried about ship repair job losses, as the naval base stops hosting ships to maintain. The proposed aircraft carrier relocation won’t come in time.
* Got Fast Rope? The USAF is interested in a non-exclusive license to your solution.
* Saab has submitted their offer to Croatia: a few JAS-39A Gripens as immediate MiG-21 replacements, to be replaced by 8-12 JAS-39C/Ds. Eurofighter is expected to be their main competition.
* 1st Canadian CH-147 Chinook helicopter enters final assembly.
* LCS 3 Fort Worth, the 2nd Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship from Team Lockheed, completes builder’s trials.
* At yesterday’s hearing at the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, DoD officials described the intervention in Uganda as “not open-ended.”
* The US Department of Justice has indicted 5 people after they allegedly tried to illegally export thousands of radio frequency modules to Iran, at least 16 of which were later found in unexploded improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq.