OCEANA NAS, VA. Streamlined acquisition methods that are fielding GPS-aided Lantirn pods on F-14Bs in record time could become a model for upgrading aircraft in an era of declining defense budgets. Barely 19 months after a Lockheed Martin team suggested that a Lantirn targeting pod could give the Tomcat a night precision-guided munitions (PGM) capability, the U.S. Navy is deploying its first squadron with operational systems.

London After some last-minute wrangling over the fine print, NATO has endorsed the reorganization of the alliance to allow European members greater flexibility in acting on their own. More than two years after the concept was first raised, NATO leaders meeting in Berlin last week endorsed the use of combined joint task forces, or CJTFs (AW&ST Jan. 17, 1994, p. 21).