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- OSD says Army's Black Hawk plan threatens Sikorsky's survival
- The Army's plan to stop buying UH-60 Black Hawks in FY '97 will add more than half a billion dollars to the cost of current and future military helicopter buys and threatens the very survival of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., according to Pentagon documents.The Army's program objective memorandum POM for FY...
- Research articles 1996-07-12
- Bell ready to compete for Comanche production work - Joiner
- Bell Helicopter Textron is in an excellent position to compete for the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter production contract based on a government owned development program data package, according to Bell Chairman Webb Joiner. A Boeing - Sikorsky team is developing Comanche for the Army.Joiner's comments regarding Comanche are contained in a...
- Research articles 1996-07-23
- Kaminski to decide if Black Hawks are for Marines
- Pentagon officials in recent months have taken a hard look at the military's utility helicopter requirements and are now poised to decide whether the Army's premier rotorcraft can also meet the Marine Corps' needs, according to Pentagon and industry officials.An Office of the Secretary of Defense briefing comparing the attributes...
- Research articles 1995-12-21
- Pentagon proposes adding funds for last Black Hawk buy
- In a draft program budget decision PBD, the Pentagon Comptroller is proposing restoring $289 million to the Army's FY '96 budget for production of 60 UH-60 Black Hawk utility aircraft, Pentagon and industry officials said. The addition of the money, if approved, would allow prime contractor Sikorsky Aircraft to...
- Research articles 1994-12-06
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- Sikorsky, Army Sign Black Hawk Upgrade Contract
- The Army and Sikorsky [UTX] on Wednesday kicked off the UH-60M program with the signing of a $219.7 million contract for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) of the UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter, according to a company release and an Army official. Under the RDT&E contract,...
- Research articles 2001-05-04
- Bancroft Cap Co. at Cabot has been awarded a $14.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to produce berets for the Army and the Air Force
- Bancroft Cap Co. at Cabot has been awarded a $14.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to produce berets for the Army and the Air Force. Including option years, Bancroft will produce up to 3.6 million black wool berets under the agreement.
- Research articles 2002-10-14
- Simula Receives New Contract and Follow-On Order for its Cockpit Air Bag System — CABS
- Business Editors TEMPE, Ariz.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 29, 2002 $3.5 M in New Orders and $25 M in Additional Options for CABS in U.S. Army's Black Hawk and Kiowa Helicopters Simula, Inc. (AMEX:SMU) announced that it has received a new contract and a follow-on order for its Cockpit...
- Research articles 2002-08-29
- Wal-Mart and Its Rivals Have Left Black Friday Behind
- We're about to be inundated with news about Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving. But feel free to ignore it, since retailers actually launched the holiday season weeks ago. Back on Aug. 14, for instance, Sam's Club fired the first shot when it said it...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- United States Army at War: 9/11 Through Iraq
- United States Army at War: 9/11 Through Iraq F. Clifton Berry Jr. Naval Institute Press. 182 pages; color and black & white illustrations; maps; index; $34.95.When the nation came under attack on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Army sprang into action. Across the country, National Guard, Army Reserve and regular...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- To Be a U.S. Army Ranger
- To Be a U.S. Army Ranger. Russ Bryant. Motorbooks International. 160 pages; color and black & white photographs; index; $19.95.For a picture book, To Be a U.S. Army Ranger provides remarkable detail on what to expect in Ranger training-as well as in Regular Army training-from boot camp to Ranger School....
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Army awards Dr. Tone Johnson Jr. bronze star for bravery during Vietnam War
- Dr. Tone Johnson Jr. of Corpus Christi, TX, was recently awarded the Bronze Star Medal from the U.S. Army for bravery in the Vietnam War. Johnson, who was a private in the U.S. Army and based in Vietnam in the '60s, survived one of the worst battles of...
- Research articles 1997-06-16
- Austrian gunmaker denies Iraqi black market awash with Glock pistols
- VIENNA AFP — Austrian gunmaker Glock rejected reports Wednesday which said that the black market in Iraq was flooded with the company's semi-automatic pistols. It was "incorrect" that 80,000 pistols, many of them made by Glock, had disappeared in Iraq since 2004, the gunmaker's lawyers, Quendler, Klaus & Partner,...
- Research articles 2007-10-10
- Yale's First Black Football Captain Dies In Detroit
- Levi Jackson, Yale's first Black football captain, died of congestive heart failure at his Detroit home. He was 74. Jackson was captain of the 1949 Yale team and his election for the season made the front page of The New York Times. The star running back set 13...
- Research articles 2001-01-22
- Black Hawk Helicopter Resumes Test Flights.
- By Michael Remez, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 2--WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military resumed test flights Monday of Black Hawk helicopters at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, one week after the Army and the Navy temporarily stopped taking deliveries...
- Research articles 2004-03-02
- Expendable Warriors: The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War
- Varied Fare Expendable Warriors: The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War. Bruce B.C. Clarke. Praeger Security International. 169 pages; black and white photographs; maps; index; $49.95. The siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War is remembered as a Marine Corps fight, but the Army had an important...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Flying Black Ponies: The Navy's Close Air Support Squadron in Vietnam
- Lavell, Kit. Flying Black Ponies: The Navy's Close Air Support Squadron in Vietnam. Naval Institute Press, 291 Wood Rd., Annapolis, MD 21402. 2000. 376 pp. Ill. $32.95. Most historians divide the Vietnam War into the Rolling Thunder bombing campaign--which included Air Force F-105s and B-52s and the intense carrier-based...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Education at their command: Black leadership at National Defense University oversees education, training of top military, civilian officials - Cover Story
- FORT McNAIR, WASHINGTON, D.C. Much has been written about Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice--two African American key players in the Bush administration's "war on terror." But there are other African American officials, perhaps not as high profile, who also are making an...
- Research articles 2002-11-07
- Pentagon backs Army Black Beret decision
- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld support the Army's decision to require most soldiers to wear black berets, Wolfowitz said during a March 16 press conference with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki. Shinseki started a controversy among Army Rangers and in Congress when...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- $10 million museum to honor black soldiers, WACs - Fort Des Moines Memorial Park and Education Center; Women's Army Auxiliary Corps - Brief Article
- FORT DES MOINES, Iowa--The largest memorial in the United States honoring black and female soldiers is under development here with support from U.S. Army Reserve soldiers from the 19th Theater Support Command TSC. The $10 million, four-acre Fort Des Moines Memorial Park & Education Center honors two important events...
- Research articles 2001-06-22
- Novell defends U.S. Army Black Hawks from network attacks.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 June 2003-NOVELL: Novell defends U.S. Army Black Hawks from network attacksC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06052003 PROVO, Utah -- When you manage a fleet of more than 1,500 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the United States Army, system security ...
- Research articles 2003-06-06
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