June 11, 2001

June 11, 2001

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Options Detailed To Ease LGA Delays

By FRANCES FIORINO

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Aldridge Puts Infotech At Top of Priority List

By PAUL MANN

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Senate Flays Pentagon Audit

By PAUL MANN

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Options Detailed To Ease LGA Delays

NEW YORK LaGuardia Airport has defied government, issued a flight moratorium and held a slot lottery in an effort to solve its capacity dilemma. Now congestion fees, slot auctions and more large aircraft may become part of its future. At the request of the FAA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia, submitted various demand-management alternatives that are outlined in the Federal Register Notice posted June 7.

By FRANCES FIORINO

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Aldridge Puts Infotech At Top of Priority List

WASHINGTON The Pentagon's new leadership intends to seek incremental spending increases for defense science and technology programs that combined would receive about $8 billion a year versus the current $7 billion plus, backed by a special fund to speed the transition of new weapons technologies into the field.

By PAUL MANN

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Senate Flays Pentagon Audit

WASHINGTON Congress has joined business in demanding that the Pentagon rein in gargantuan financial mismanagement, estimated at $1.1-2.7 trillion in auditing irregularities. A new Senate report castigates defense finances as a “shambles” and the Pentagon as an agency that “wastes billions of dollars each year, and cannot account for much of what it spends.”

By PAUL MANN

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Real-World Limits Constrain Missile Defense Choices

WASHINGTON The Bush Administration's evolving missile defense plan is running into technical and political hurdles that will restrict the extent to which the new architecture can differ from the Clinton-era design. Those limits came into sharp focus last week in two forms:

By ROBERT WALL

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C-130 Avionics Upgrade Yields Big Coup for Boeing

DALLAS The U.S. Air Force’s selection of Boeing's avionics modification program to upgrade its fleet of C-130 transports is a major setback for Lockheed Martin, but a significant win for Boeing’s growing military services business. David Koopersmith, Boeing’s C-130 avionics modernization program (AMP) manager, said AMP is aimed at replacing analog-based cockpits in the aging turboprop transports with modern electronic systems.

By EDWARD H. PHILLIPS

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Elevon Failure Precedes Loss of First X-43A

EDWARDS AFB, CALIF. The first NASA X-43A hypersonic research vechcle and its single-stage booster went out of control after loss of what appeared to be two control surface fins on the aft end of a modified Pegasus XL first-stage motor. While NASA officials last week would not comment on the cause of the June 2 failure, video imagery from one of two chase aircraft showed two elevons falling off the aft end of the winged booster about 8 sec.

By BRUCE A. SMITH

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ISS Partners Undercut NASA’s User Price List

BERLIN European and Russian space officials have published price lists for use of the International Space Station that they hope will entice customers unable to afford the conditions proposed by NASA. The European Space Agency is offering to sign up commercial users for periods as short as three months for lockers or drawers on its Columbus orbital laboratory.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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Europe Seeks To Avert ATV Cost Overrun

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Correction

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Looking Past Hardware, FAA Maps NAS Growth

Integration of systems, procedures and regulations, consensus among stakeholders are keys to plan

By DAVID BOND

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