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Top 100 US Defense Contractors
Relevance Score: 4.858 2009-07-08 23:16:05
1. Lockheed Martin Corp. 2. Boeing Co. 3. Northrop Grumman Corp. 4. General Dynamics Corp. 5. Raytheon Co. 6. KBR Inc. 7. L-3 Communications Holdings 8. United Technologies Corp. 9. BAE Systems 10. SAIC 11. General Electric Co. 12. Computer Sciences Corp. 13. Humana Inc. 14. Health Net Inc. 15. Triwest Healthcare Alliance Co. 16. EDS 17. Public Warehousing Co. KSC 18. ITT Industries 19. Textron Inc. 20. Honeywell Inc. 21. URS Corp. 22. Harris Corp. 23. AmerisourceBergen Corp. 24. Bechtel Group Inc. 25. FedEx Corp. 26. Alliant Techsystems Inc. 27. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. 28. BP PLC 29. DRS Technologies Inc. 30. Exxon Mobil Corp. 31. Kuwait National Petroleum Co. 32. The Alliance Contractor Team 33. Renco Corp. 34. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings 35. Environmental Chemical Corp. 36. Oshkosh Truck Corp. 37. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. 38. Stewart & Stevenson Services 39. Armor Holdings Inc. 40. General Motors Corp. 41. Grindex Pumps A B Sweden 42. Korea Agricultural Cooperative 43. CACI International Inc. 44. Johns Hopkins University 45. General Atomics Technology Corp. 46. Rockwell Collins 47. McKesson Corp. 48. Valero Energy Corp. 49. Aerospace Corp. 50. MITRE Corp. 51. Cardinal Health Inc. 52. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 53. Syracuse Research Corp. 54. Chugach Alaska Corp. 55. Dell Computer Corp. 56. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 57. ARINC Inc. 58. Phillips and Jordan Inc. 59. Refinery Associates Inc. 60. Rolls-Royce PLC 61. United Industrial Corp. 62. IAP Worldwide Services Inc. 63. Government of Canada 64. Hatakeyama Bussan 65. AP Moller-Maersk 66. ChevronTexaco Corp. 67. Battelle Memorial Institute 68. Shaw Group Inc. 69. Parsons Corp. 70. Thales Group 71. Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. 72. Bahrain National Oil Co. 73. Philip Morris Co. 74. Tetra Tech Inc. 75. Chenega Corp. 76. AshBritt Inc. 77. Hunt Building Corp. 78. Ceradyne Inc. 79. Ceres Environmental Services 80. SK Corp. 81. Veritas Capital Inc. 82. CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. 83. Aecom Technology Corp. 84. Washington Group International 85. Goodrich Corp. 86. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. 87. Procter & Gamble Co. 88. Tesoro Petroleum Corp. 89. UBS Provedores 90. Dogog Farm 91. Datapath Inc. 92. Mantech International Corp. 93. Afognak Native Corp. 94. VSE Corp. 95. Accenture 96. IBM Corp. 97. Arctic Slope Regional Corp. 98. Serco Group PLC 99. Kemyong Farm Ltd. 100. Charles Stark Draper Labs
Raytheon to Give Tomahawk a New Edge
Relevance Score: 4.466 2009-07-29 22:10:55
Last Friday, Raytheon scored a Navy contract worth more than $12.8 million to create a new warhead for the Tomahawk missile. Program officials with the company say the workhorse cruise missile will be fit with a warhead that can crack hardened targets and that could turn the Tomahawk into an intelligent ship-killer. Currently, the Tomahawk missile is fixed with a 1000-pound explosive that sprays fragments, an ideal configuration to destroy soft land targets, such as stationary infantry formations or unprotected buildings. But to take on a bunker or other shielded structures, the missile needs to have a two-stage warhead. The Tomahawk will use a shaped charge to destroy any armor, such as the concrete roof of a buried bunker or the thick steel bulkhead of a ship, allowing a second explosive behind to enter and detonate in the vulnerable interior. It will be effective for heavily fortified still or slow-moving targets. But the missile needs to be smarter to target moving enemy ships that are operating along crowded shorelines or close to civilian fleets. Using a Navy-funded study conducted at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab, Raytheon identified other upgrades it wants to make to transform the Tomahawk into a ship-killer: Advanced EASA radar to help the missile find targets, and new sensors that would enable the missile to discriminate targets from civilian ships by scanning radio and radar output. Tomahawks currently can be reprogrammed in flight, but will need more powerful radar and other sensors to find the right targets, yet "not so strong that they would give away the missile's position before it's too late," says Everett Tackett, Raytheon's business development manager for the cruise missile. The upgraded system will be the same size, so the tubes in submarines or launchers on the ships will not need to be changed. Raytheon expects to complete work on a demonstrator prototype by early 2012.
Rice gets $9 million in funds from Defense Department
Relevance Score: 4.115 2009-05-18 21:04:33
Rice University has received more than $9 million in research grants from the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the government agency’s Multidisciplinary University Research Inititative program. The Houston university is the lead institution on a $6.3 million MURI project that aims to build upon advances in sensor design, signal processing, communications and robotics by developing new techniques for “opportunistic sensing.” The project, which is funded by the Army Research Office, is expected to directly impact the design of future ground and aerial surveillance systems, making them more powerful, more reliable and better able to distinguish friend from foe. Other institutions involved in the project are the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Duke University and the University of California at Los Angeles. Rice is a member institution on two other projects: One is a $2.2 million effort to forge new techniques for creating nanodevices made from a material known as graphene. Researchers believe graphene-based devices may become major building blocks for future nanoscale computing. The lead institution for the project, which is funded by the Office of Naval Research, is the University of California at Berkeley. The other project is a $1 million effort to create new and better high-temperature superconductors. The project is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and led by Stanford University. The five-year grants result from a competitive program in which the DoD received more than 150 proposals.
An Icy Reception In The Meridian UAV's Future.
Relevance Score: 3.650 2009-09-16 13:55:51
The University of Kansas has completed its first test flight of an unmanned craft designed to gather information on polar ice sheets. The university claimed Wednesday the Meridian UAV flew at Fort Riley last month and will next go to Utah for more tests. The 1,100-pound Meridian was designed and built by university student engineers. Scientists at the university's Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets plan to use the Meridian's on-board radar to measure ice thickness and conditions at the bottom of glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland. They say the UAV can skim icy terrain closer and at slower speeds than could be done safely with manned vehicles. Researchers say the Meridian could make test flights in Antarctica later this year.
An Icy Reception In The Meridian UAV's Future.
Relevance Score: 3.631 2009-09-16 13:55:51
The University of Kansas has completed its first test flight of an unmanned craft designed to gather information on polar ice sheets. The university claimed Wednesday the Meridian UAV flew at Fort Riley last month and will next go to Utah for more tests. The 1,100-pound Meridian was designed and built by university student engineers. Scientists at the university's Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets plan to use the Meridian's on-board radar to measure ice thickness and conditions at the bottom of glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland. They say the UAV can skim icy terrain closer and at slower speeds than could be done safely with manned vehicles. Researchers say the Meridian could make test flights in Antarctica later this year.
Expanding internet connectivity in Afghanistan
Relevance Score: 3.361 2009-03-23 00:07:57
Named after the Great Silk Road trading route linking Asia and Europe, the NATO Virtual Silk Highway (SILK) provides affordable, high-speed Internet access via satellite to the academic communities of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The SILK project is operational at Kabul University, Afghanistan, since 2006, and is now looking into expanding the network to the provinces. Under the Declaration by NATO and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to maximize the potential of the Virtual Silk Highway, the NATO Public Diplomacy Division (PDD) Science for Peace and Security (SPS) programme is assisting the Afghan authorities in paving the way for developing their educational system. Kabul area In 2008, the NATO-PDD SPS programme connected all 14 faculties of Kabul University and the Ministry of Higher Education to a campus network, as well as setting up a video teleconferencing facility. Work is in progress to provide high-speed Internet access through the Virtual Silk Highway to other higher education institutions in Kabul, including the National Military Academy of Afghanistan. Linking the provinces In March 2008, the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) was tasked by NATO-PDD SPS to conduct a feasibility study on the potential provision of internet connectivity for universities outside of Kabul. The tender process for this expanded SILK project is currently underway, and implementation could start end 2009. In the meantime, the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education has identified six universities as the first beneficiaries of the expansion: Herat University; Jawzjan University in Sheberghan; Kandahar University, Sheikh Zaid University, Khost Province, Balkh University in Mazar-e-Sharif; and Nangarhar University in Jalalabad.
House OKs $22M for area
Relevance Score: 2.859 2009-07-31 11:08:29
More than $22 million could be on the way to local businesses as part of a massive, $636.3 billion defense-spending bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill still must be approved by the Senate, and those deliberations may not happen until September. But Democratic U.S. Rep. John Murtha, who chairs a House subcommittee on defense spending, once again has helped steer big government contracts to companies in his hometown. “I’m proud to secure funding for local programs that are providing our troops and the Defense Department with advanced technology, quality equipment and other important services,” Murtha said. “These programs showcase the talent of small businesses, the skills of our local employees, and in many cases end up saving the government money.” The biggest local appropriation is for Johnstown’s Gautier Steel Ltd., which is slated to receive $8.1 million to continue conversion of its steelmaking facilities to a titanium-producing operation. Three years ago, officials announced that Gautier – located in the former Bethlehem Steel Corp. mill that lines Clinton Street – had landed a contract to begin making titanium parts for military vehicles. Other appropriations in the defense bill include: • $5 million for MTS Technologies Inc., which has set up shop in the Greater Johns-town Technology Park in the city’s Kernville neighborhood. The money is for continued development of an Army-vehicle system that will “improve the scheduling of maintenance and repairs, reduce logistics costs and provide safer vehicles for our troops,” Murtha said. • $3.5 million for Compass Systems Inc., a Maryland-based company with a branch office on Mount Airy Drive in Adams Township. Compass, an engineering firm, will provide the Defense Department with a “hand-held mobile mapping communications device,” officials said. • $2.6 million for ESRI Corp., a California-based company that earlier this year announced an expansion into a larger Johns-town office on Eisenhower Boulevard, Richland Township. ESRI, which bills itself as “the world’s leading developer of geographic information system technology,” is receiving government money to provide a program that Murtha says will give the Army “a deeper understanding of the battlespace.” • $2.2 million for KDH Defense Systems Inc., a maker of military vests and equipment based in the former Bestform building along Broad Street in the Cambria City neighborhood. KDH will continue development of light body armor that will provide better protection against high-velocity rounds and explosives, officials said. • $800,000 for Exceptional Parent, a magazine published by EP Global Communications Inc., which is based on Main Street in downtown Johnstown. The magazine is geared toward families who are caring for those with disabilities. “These tools and educational programs are provided to military health-care professionals, families and those with special needs,” officials said.
RubbleViewer Uses Robots to Map Natural Disasters in 3D
Relevance Score: 2.620 2009-07-06 12:12:19
When disaster strikes, every minute matters. And the time spent surveying the scene is time that can’t be spent saving survivors. Researchers at Texas A&M University and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have collaborated on a way to speed up the process. Small robots take photos of the disaster site. The photos are then uploaded to a computer program called Rubble-Viewer that transforms them into a three-dimensional map of the site. (The program is based on Microsoft’s Photosynth software, which won a 2008 PM Breakthrough Award.) This could speed up rescues. “It can take 10 hours to extract somebody because you don’t know the structure,” says Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M. “This will give structural engineers more accurate information to speed up extraction.” RubbleViewer’s creators hope to get the software to first responders by August, when hurricane season normally hits its peak.
Report Card Shows Improvements In Afghan Training.
Relevance Score: 2.560 2009-07-15 02:29:14
Lt Col Gabriel informed the Afghan forces' development won't happen overnight. (Defence Force: Corporal Hamish Paterson ) The first Australian training team to be sent to Afghanistan has wrapped up its mission there and AM has been given the first progress report on the readiness of the Afghan troops. They are still years away from being able to run complicated operations on their own, but the man who led the mission says they have made significant progress. After eight months in command of the Australian training team Lieutenant Colonel Shane Gabriel is in Canberra briefing his superiors on the progress of the Afghan soldier in what is officially known as the Second Battalion, 4th Brigade, 205 Hero Corp. Lt Col Gabriel says the battalion has made significant progress. "When we assumed that task back in October, the Second Battalion was at relatively early stages of its development and here we were at the end of an eight-month period conducting fairly complex mentored company-level operations [with] the Afghan battalion," he said. "I think that's a good measure of success." The skills of Afghan troops are measured by what the military calls "capability milestones". The Second Battalion started off down at capability milestone four. It has progressed up to level three - which means that, while it is, "partially able to conduct primary missions" it is still "reliant on" outside help. It has to make it all the way up to level one, when it will usually be able to work on its own, before the Australians can leave. Lt Col Gabriel says this means there is a lot of work to do. "It is a very large step, because what we're talking about here is now the overall objective which is having a fully independent Afghan national army," he said. "That's also in the context of the fact we are in the middle of a very difficult fight with a very dangerous insurgency. "So we're talking all of those factors together; that takes time." 'No timetable' He says it is hard to say exactly how long the mission will take. "I wouldn't like to put a timetable on it, I don't think it's reasonable to put a line in the sand. There's a lot of work to be done but it's very pleasing progress," he said. "Think about it in our own context. It takes a long time to develop people within our own army, to develop specialist positions and leadership roles. "So here we are with another country's army assisting them with that development. "I think we need to be patient and understand that these things don't happen overnight." A new mentoring team has been in Afghanistan for a few weeks now, continuing the work Lt Col Gabriel started. The extra team announced by the Federal Government in April is about to go in to start training another Afghan battalion devoted to combat support, which involves skills like firing artillery. But the overall enterprise is beset by manpower shortages and uncertainty. The Dutch battle group which is in charge of the province is still planning to pull out next year. Troop shortage A third of the Afghan combat troops who were supposed to be deployed in Uruzgan province were sent into neighbouring Helmand province more than a year ago. But they still have not been replaced by the Afghan Ministry of Defence. Lt Col Gabriel says there is always a need for more soldiers. 'It's a fact of life I suppose, that in a counter insurgency the great mass you have means that you can help to dominate a greater area of the province," he said. "So if you have more Afghan soldiers you can obviously do more." Lt Col Gabriel claims the troops he worked with were devastated by the loss of four Australian troops during his tour of duty. But he says they can be proud they have continued on the commitment they made. "The loss of any of our soldiers of course is a difficult thing to deal with at the time," he said. "It's a tragedy of course for us but of course for the families. "I remember particularly our loss of Corporal Matthew Hopkins from our battle group, which hit us all very hard, but importantly we went back out there and continued our mission in exactly the way that Corporal Hopkins would have expected his mates to do. "I think that is the key of our commitment, is that we understand how important our role, our commitment is to this coalition in Afghanistan and we're going to make sure that we are successful."
Esterline Promotes Al Yost to Corporate Group Vice President.
Relevance Score: 2.231 2009-11-25 21:27:16
Esterline Corporation (NYSE: ESL), a leading specialty producer serving the aerospace, defense and medical markets, today announced the promotion of Albert S. Yost to corporate Group Vice President. Yost has more than 17 years of broad operational experience in the aerospace/defense and medical technology sectors, including more than two years as President of Esterline's Advanced Input Systems unit. During that time he also held management responsibility for Esterline's Interface Technologies business platform, which encompasses six operating locations in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He first joined Esterline in 1999 as Director of Finance for Esterline's Mason Electric operation in southern California. Esterline CEO Brad Lawrence informed, "Al has years of experience in our key markets, deep financial accumen, and excellent management skills; put those elements together and you have an ideal next Group Vice President." Prior to joining Esterline, Yost held positions at Moog's aircraft group and Raytheon Aircraft. He graduated from Brigham Young University with an economics degree and later obtained an MBA from Utah State University.