February 24, 2003

February 24, 2003

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

USAF, Boeing Polish Tanker Lease Terms

By ROBERT WALL

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Germany Finesses AWACS Conundrum

By DOUGLAS BARRIE

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Koreas T-50 Reaches Supersonic Milestone

By MICHAEL MECHAM KOREA

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USAF, Boeing Polish Tanker Lease Terms

WASHINGTON The U.S. Air Force has fine-tuned a proposed lease of 100 Boeing 767200 refuelers in the hope of overcoming resistance from lease critics and getting a go-ahead for the deal. After more than a year of negotiations, a decision on whether the Pentagon will give the green light to the lease is anticipated in the coming weeks.

By ROBERT WALL

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Germany Finesses AWACS Conundrum

By DOUGLAS BARRIE

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Koreas T-50 Reaches Supersonic Milestone

By MICHAEL MECHAM KOREA

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Orbital Space ‘Plane’ Could Be a Capsule

WASHINGTON NASA’S proposed Orbital Space Plane (OSP) won’t necessarily have wings or be reusable, but it would allow the International Space Station (ISS) to accommodate the seven-person crew originally planned. And while it could eventually supplement the space shuttle as a way to get humans to the ISS, it won’t be a quick replacement.

By FRANK MORRING

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ISS Partners Nearing Decisions On Manning, Resupply Issues

PARIS MOSCOW WASHINGTON International Space Station managers are finalizing plans for a replacement crew to ensure continued manning of the orbital facility while NASA’s space shuttle fleet is grounded. They also are considering nearand medium-term options from Europe and Russia to meet logistics requirements.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA,ALEXEY KOMAROV,FRANK MORRING

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ESA Fears Funding Shortfall May Curtail Artemis Operations

FUCINO, ITALY Just days after a spectacular recovery operation finished raising the European Space Agency’s Artemis telecom technology satellite to its intended orbit, a potential operating budget shortfall is forcing the agency to consider leasing out all or part of the spacecraft’s payload.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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Ariane 5 Picked For WildBlue As Ariane 4 Is Phased Out

PARIS Arianespace has been selected to launch the WildBlue 1 dedicated Ka-band satellite, getting the beleaguered launch firm off to a good commercial start in 2003 and marking another key milestone in the newly resuscitated WildBlue project.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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Northrop's Change At The Top: Execution Moves To Center Stage

LOS ANGELES Northrop Grumman Corp. will soon have a new chief executive, Ronald D. Sugar, and his agenda will be very different from that of his predecessor, Kent Kresa, whose vision in the early 1990s was to transform what was then “The B-2 Company” into an enterprise built around network-centric warfare—a concept that was still in its embryonic stage a decade ago.

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI

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Goodrich Curbs Appetite, Focuses on TRW Integration

NEW YORK Goodrich Corp.—one of the most acquisitive aerospace companies—will make no major transactions for the next two years so management can concentrate on what may well be their biggest merger-related challenge thus far: integration of the former TRW Aeronautical Systems (AS) business.

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI

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Nimrod Failings Provide Bitter Lesson for BAE

LONDON Delivering a combative performance, top BAE Systems managers last week rebuffed any suggestions of resignation over two wayward programs—resulting in some $ 1 billion writeoffs—while arguing that their campaign to re-cast elements of U.K. procurement policy is beginning to pay dividends.

By DOUGLAS BARRIE

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