June 24, 2002

June 24, 2002

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

B-1 B Fights Demotion In Combat Role

By ROBERT WALL6 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Cambone Snags Key Pentagon Analysis Post

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Goodrich's TRW Buy Sets Stage For Act II

By MICHAEL MECHAM5 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

B-1 B Fights Demotion In Combat Role

WASHINGTON A confrontation is brewing inside the Air Force over whether to relegate the B-lB bomber to a standoff role or maintain its ability to fly over defended targets and drop ordnance. B-1B backers fear that once the aircraft is consigned to a standoff role, senior Air Force officials will take the next step and retire the aircraft altogether.

By ROBERT WALL6 min

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Cambone Snags Key Pentagon Analysis Post

WASHINGTON One of officially of the Pentagon’s sanctioned major internal sources criticism, the program analysis and evaluation office, got a new boss last week. Stephen Cambone, considered by many military officials to be one of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s primary enforcers, was shifted last week from his job as principal deputy undersecretary for policy to that of director of PA&E—effective “within a few days.”

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

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Goodrich's TRW Buy Sets Stage For Act II

TRW gains cash and lowers debt, boosting Northrop Grumman's chance to get its military-space businesses

By MICHAEL MECHAM5 min

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Missile Defense Test Complexity to Increase

WASHINGTON After pace being and relative pummeled simplicity for the in slow testing U.S. missile defenses, the Pentagon is poised to finally evaluate those systems more aggressively and with a greater degree of difficulty. Two developments are responsible for the increasing test rigor: the fact that military officials feel confident they have validated the underlying technology, and the demise of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which allows new elements to be added to the missile defense architecture.

By ROBERT WALL5 min

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F-22 Enters Critical Phase

Washington The next few months will be crucial to the future of the F-22 stealth fighter, as U.S. Air Force officials try to counter a Pentagon drive to cut production and also focus on preparing the aircraft for operational testing. Pentagon leaders expect to decide by early September whether to trim F-22 production to 180 aircraft or allow the service to buy at least 295 of the fighters as agreed to earlier this year.

By Robert Wall4 min

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Delay Strikes British Replacement Tanker

LONDON Britain’s billion) 13-billion-pound effort to procure new ($ 19.46tanker aircraft using a private finance approach is running into difficulties, with the timetable for the program delayed by at least 12 months. The defense ministry had been aiming to see the first of the tanker aircraft, intended to replace aging VC 10 and L-1011 Tristar aircraft, in service in 2007.

By DOUGLAS BARRIE3 min

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C-130A Firefighter Breaks Up Inflight

LOS ANGELES The wings came off a Lockheed C-130A firefighting tanker as it pulled up from dropping extinguishing agent on a blaze near Walker, Calif., killing all three crew. The U.S. Forest Service has grounded all C-130 firefighters.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM3 min

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EA Defers Ariane Support Plan

MICHAEL A. TAVERNA
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Back From Station

Endeavour returned to Earth at Edwards AFB, Calif., after weather blocked landings at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for three days in a row. STS-111 mission commander Kenneth Cockrell and copilot Paul Lockhart guided the shuttle to Edwards’ Runway 22 at 1:58 p.m. EDT June 19, following two weather wave-offs at Kennedy that day.
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ISRAELI DEFENSE

Israel Pursues High Tech Despite War Costs

UAVs, missile defenses, precision weapons and new explosive-detection systems dominate research

By DAVID A. FULGHUM,ROBERT WALL8 min

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