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• General Dynamics and Executive Jet Announce Deal Worth $2 Billion for Super Mid-Size Galaxy Aircraft and Long-Term Maintenance General Dynamics 01 May 2001 -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) today announced an order from Executive Jet, Inc. for 50 super mid-size Galaxy aircraft and long-term maintenance and options for 50 more aircraft worth approximately $2 billion.
• SH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopter Successfully Flight Tests AQS-22 Dipping Sonar Lockheed Martin 01 May 2001 -- The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin Systems Integration - Owego, prime contractor for the SH-60R multi-mission helicopter, together have successfully integrated, ground tested and flight tested an AQS-22 dipping sonar in a prototype SH-60R helicopter currently in testing at the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md.
• Northrop Grumman Receives $196.5 Million Contract From U.S. Navy for Design and Construction of LHD 8 Northrop Grumman 01 May 2001 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded an additional $196.5 million to Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), for the continuation of work towards the construction of an eighth WASP (LHD 1) Class large-deck, multipurpose, amphibious assault ship.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 01 May 2001

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• Sea Launch on a Mission to Launch XM's "Roll" Satellite Boeing 01 May 2001 -- The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander departed Home Port, in Long Beach, Calif., last week in preparation for launch of the "Roll" satellite (XM-1), from the Equator, at 154 degrees West Longitude.
• SECOND BOEING-BUILT XM SATELLITE AT SEA, READY FOR LAUNCH Boeing 01 May 2001 -- An official launch date and time have been set for XM "Roll," the second of two powerful Boeing 702-model spacecraft built for XM Satellite Radio, Inc., by Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS), a unit of The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA).