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• Boeing JSF X-32A Completes Low-Speed Carrier Variant Tests Boeing 04 Dec 2000 -- Flying as many as five flights a day in the last week, the Boeing Joint Strike Fighter X-32A concept demonstrator aircraft has successfully completed low-speed approach aircraft carrier variant (CV) tests - one of the government's three main program objectives.
• U.S. Navy Awards Lockheed Martin Undersea Warfare Systems Contracts Valued at $61 Million Lockheed Martin 04 Dec 2000 -- Lockheed Martin announced that the U.S. Navy has awarded contracts, worth a total of $61 million, for additional AN/SQQ-89(V)15 undersea warfare systems and related services. Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems (NE&SS)-Undersea Systems in Syracuse will manage the contracts, which are part of a multi-version AN/SQQ-89(V) production and engineering program at the facility.
• CACI Awarded Intelligence and Information Warfare Contract by U.S Army Communications-Electronics Command CACI 04 Dec 2000 -- CACI International Inc (NASDAQ:CACI) announced today that it has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide Technical, Engineering, Fabrication, and Operations Support (TEFOS) to the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD).

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• BOEING-BUILT THURAYA SATELLITE COMPLETES INITIAL OPERATIONAL TEST PHASE Boeing 04 Dec 2000 -- In little more than a month following its launch, the Thuraya-1 satellite has successfully completed, its Initial Operational Test (IOT) phase. During IOT, Thuraya's C-band antenna, solar wings, and 12-meter-diameter L-band reflector were deployed and tested, and the first telephone calls on the Thuraya-1 satellite have been completed.
• BOEING TO BUILD 10TH SATELLITE FOR EUROPE'S LEADING SATELLITE SERVICES PROVIDER Boeing 04 Dec 2000 -- Société Européenne des Satellites (SES) of Luxembourg, the operator of Europe's leading ASTRA direct-to-home (DTH) Satellite System, has ordered its tenth satellite from the world's largest satellite manufacturer, Boeing Satellite Systems, formerly Hughes Space and Communications Company.