'Rapid Fire 2010-02-02: JSF Woes

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Rapid Fire 2010-02-02: JSF Woes

Feb 01, 2010 22:00 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

Taiwan prepares to order a $6.45 billion weapons package, sparks predictable diplomatic huffing.
The Pentagon plans to replace the official in charge of the F-35 JSF program and withhold $614 million in performance fees from Lockheed Martin for failing to meet key goals. At the same time Pratt & Whitney delivered the 1st F135 production engine for the F-35 aircraft.
Sikorsky is investing $1 billion to develop an unmanned Black Hawk helicopter, which it hopes to have ready by 2015.

USS George H.W. Bush [CVN 77] redelivered; its strike group will soon have the first female CSG commander in US Navy history.

Shares of major US defense companies gained in trading following the unveiling of the Obama administration’s FY 2011 defense budget that would increase defense spending by 3.4%.

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) had another setback in its effort to build a ballistic missile defense, when its Sea-Based X-band radar failed to track a target missile during a test at the Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. MDA is also looking for a supplier for its target missiles.

Prime contractor CSC gets $261 million in orders to provide IT and logistics services under the US Army’s Logistics Modernization Program.

USAF orders more of Lockheed’s Sniper ATP surveillance & targeting pods.

Rolls Royce scores a $146 million order to provide another year of C-130J fleet engine support.

Singapore unveils its new G550 AWACS aircraft.

Raytheon/Boeing’s JAGM missile contender finishes captive test flights.

Raytheon BBN announces a successful ad-hoc networking experiment under DARPA’s WNaN effort.

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