October 22, 2001

October 22, 2001

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

NASA Centers Facing Cuts

By FRANK MORRING

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Tough Decisions Loom For EA-6B Replacement

By ROBERT WALL

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Boeing Promises JSF Could Be Built Faster

By ROBERT WALL

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

NASA Centers Facing Cuts

WASHINGTON NASA is looking to squeeze within a tight budget by eliminating jobs at its 10 field centers, a process—spurred by White House budgeteers and the post-Sept. 11 political landscape—that outgoing Administrator Daniel S. Goldin likened to “throwing children to the wolves.”

By FRANK MORRING

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Tough Decisions Loom For EA-6B Replacement

WASHINGTON Senior Pentagon officials face a number of difficult choices and expensive options as they try to determine in the coming weeks how to replace the EA-6B Prowler support jammer. A Pentagon-chartered analysis of electronic attack alternatives has been completed after more than a year’s study and military officials have been presented with a laundry list of options to maintain a support-jamming capability past 2010.

By ROBERT WALL

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Boeing Promises JSF Could Be Built Faster

WASHINGTON In its bid to win the Joint Strike Fighter competition, Boeing promises it will be able to rapidly slash the time it takes to build each of the strike fighters and reduce its cost in parallel. Boeing and its competitor Lockheed Martin are in their final push to convince Pentagon officials they have the winning approach for JSF.

By ROBERT WALL

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Lockheed Martin Confident It Can Build Cheaper JSF

Fort Worth Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter team is developing advanced manufacturing and assembly techniques aimed at significantly reducing build time and costs, compared with methods used to build legacy' fighters. Company and team engineers are fine-tuning a series of advanced fabrication and assembly processes for Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter candidate aimed at achieving “radical reductions” in the time required to assemble the airplane, said Martin McLaughlin, airframe team lead for Lockheed Martin’s JSF program.

By Edward H. Phillips

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Goldin Leaves NASA Post With Agency in a Stall

Long-time administrator steps down as budget organizational issues loom

By FRANK MORRING

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COVER STORY

Fighter CAPs Settle Into A Routine

Air patrols focus on areas of U.S. considered at risk of terrorist attacks

By WILLIAM B. SCOTT

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AVIONICS

Inside Avionics

SAAB AVIONICS AB, WHICH SUPPORTS SAAB AEROSPACE in electromagnetic interference (EMI) for aircraft including the Gripen, is turning to automobiles for insights to prevent EMI problems. The increasing variety of electronics packed in the small volume of a car creates more complex EMI challenges than in aircraft, according to Saab.

By BRUCE D. NORDWALL

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Hardy DS1 Shows Comet's Surprises

PASADENA, CALIF. Deep Space 1 acquired the first resolved pictures of a comet’s nucleus on Sept. 22, despite the spacecraft being designed as a technology demonstrator rather than a cometary explorer. Engineers were amazed that it survived the close encounter through the surrounding dust with no apparent damage.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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GERMAN AEROSPACE & ILA 2002

German Aerospace Seeks to Expand

Business in Germany’s aerospace industry has been brisk, as companies have enjoyed an unprecedented wave of success that has propelled— and at the same time compelled—the industry to seek ever broader partnerships within and beyond Europe in order to grow more.
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GERMAN AEROSPACE & ILA 2002

MRO Europe Comes to Hamburg in 2002

Next year, Aviation Week will hold its MRO Europe 2002 Conference & Exhibition on Sept. 18-20 at the Congress Centrum in Hamburg, Germany. The MRO conferences, which serve one of the aviation industry’s fastest-growing markets, were launched in 1996, and the flagship U.S. event, which is produced in partnership with the Air Transport Assn., now features 500 exhibits and attracts more than 4,000 attendees.
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