KENNEDY SPACE CENTER NASA is consulting researchers in Canada, Europe and Japan on how to best build on two successful Earth surveys by a shuttle-borne set of complex, multi-frequency radar instruments. The U.S. space agency has asked the National Academy of Sciences to recommend the next step in developing a spacebased radar monitor of the Earth, now that the Space Radar Laboratory (SRL) has completed the second of two flights on the shuttle Endeavour.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Space shuttle program officials are reviewing every job and procedure involved with launching seven flights a year to find ways of matching cuts in its Fiscal 1995 budget and those that are expected to follow, the program's top managers said.

WASHINGTON Five unmanned aerial vehicle designs selected for the Tier 2+ long-endurance reconnaissance program have been faulted by some aerospace officials as not being imaginative. "We just don't understand," an industry official said.

WASHINGTON NASA is expanding its efforts to make procurement information easily accessible on the Internet, the rapidly growing global computer network. The idea is to move away from reliance on the Commerce Business Daily, the U.S. government's yellow newspaper listing hundreds of opportunities for contractors in scores of federal agencies and departments in each issue.

ACO/LA CHAPELLE VENDOMOISE FRANCE A French start-up company, CAC Systemes, in 1995 will launch the pro-, duction of a new, low-cost lightweight electronic intelligence unmanned aerial vehicle. The UAV, code-named Fox TX, is an enhanced derivative of the Fox AT2 reconnaissance UAV now in production.