November 7, 1994

November 7, 1994

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JAST CONTRACTS DUE AS PROGRAM RECAST

By JOHN D. MORROCCO

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FOGLEMAN TO STRESS 'STABILITY' AFTER DEEP CUTS

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

HEADLINE NEWS

CANADIAN PANEL ASKS FOR CUTS IN AVIATION

By DAVID HUGHES

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JAST CONTRACTS DUE AS PROGRAM RECAST

WASHINGTON The Pentagon's Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program office, which is having to restructure or curtail a number of its technology efforts due to congressional funding cuts, is preparing to select contractor teams in mid-December for concept definition contracts.

By JOHN D. MORROCCO

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FOGLEMAN TO STRESS 'STABILITY' AFTER DEEP CUTS

LOS ANGELES Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, the new Air Force chief of staff, does not plan any abrupt reversals in the changes made by his predecessor, Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, and instead plans to work on "finishing touches" to the service. Fogleman, who took his post on Oct. 26, sees his major task as providing stability at the end of cuts that have roughly halved the Air Force's budget and combat aircraft fleet since the mid-1980s.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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CANADIAN PANEL ASKS FOR CUTS IN AVIATION

BOSTON Canada's Parliament has received a report on defense policy that calls for a 25% cut in spending on fighter aircraft operations and suggests that one CF-18 squadron be eliminated. While the special parliamentary committee that wrote the report called for less air capability overall, it saw no need to reduce maritime forces and even recommended an increase in land forces to cope with a heavy load of peacekeeping duties.

By DAVID HUGHES

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EUROPEANS TO UNITE AERONAUTICS EFFORTS

Seven nations hope coordinating efforts of nearly 20,000 workers will reinvigorate Europe's research base and counter a "U.S. technology threat"

By PIERRE SPARACO

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USAF PROPOSES THEORY FOR F110 SEAL FAILURES

NEW YORK U.S. Air Force officials believe they have determined the engine failure mechanism that has caused the crash of four General Electric F110-100 powered F-16s since July. Based on preliminary data, Air Force officials now theorize that increased clearances combined with potential imbalances in several components may cause cracking in rotating "teeth" of turbine seals found in the F101/F 110/F118 family of engines.

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO

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NASA STAFF MAY JOIN INDUSTRY ON X-33

By JAMES R. ASKER

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CREW TESTS MIR'S DOCKING SYSTEM

PARIS Russian and European crewmembers on board the Mir space station last week undocked their Soyuz TM-19 spacecraft to conduct a critical test of Mir's rendezvous avionics, which failed on previous docking attempts. Cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Talgat Musabyev, accompanied by European Space Agency astronaut Ulf Merbold, undocked the Soyuz TM-19 spacecraft from Mir's rear port Nov. 2.

By CRAIG COVAULT

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AIR FORCE NARROWS SCRAMJET TEST OPTIONS

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO

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ARMY FUNDS LORAL'S ERINT, SHUNS MULTIMODE PATRIOT

BOSTON The Army has awarded two major contracts for the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) program so that Loral Vought Systems can develop the Erint missile and Raytheon can modify Patriot launchers to fire the weapon, but one troublesome issue remains unresolved.

By DAVID HUGHES

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USAF OFFERS 25-YEAR LEASE FOR CALIFORNIA 'SPACEPORT'

LOS ANGELES_ The Air Force will negotiate a 25-year lease with the Western Commercial Space Center for commercial use of existing and planned launch facilities at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., USAF Secretary Sheila E. Widnall said on Oct. 28.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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