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• ATK Awarded $5 Million Contract to Produce Artillery Fuze Setter ATK 29 May 2001 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems)(NYSE: ATK) said it has been selected by the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center, (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., to produce the Portable Inductive Artillery Fuze Setter (PIAFS) under an 18-month contract valued at approximately $5 million.
• Royal Saudi Air Force Orders Boeing F-15C Distributed Mission Training Systems Boeing 29 May 2001 -- The Boeing Company booked the first international sale of its F-15C Distributed Mission Training (DMT) system when it recently signed a foreign military sales contract to provide DMT systems to the Royal Saudi Air Force.
• Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile Wins Prestigious Daedalian's Award Lockheed Martin 29 May 2001 -- The Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile, produced by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, has won the Daedalian's Weapons System Award, the Colonel Franklin C. Wolfe Memorial Trophy for 2000. The award was presented at the annual Daedalian Convention on May 23, 2001, in Las Vegas, N.V.

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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 29 May 2001

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• ORBITAL REACHES DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO SELL MAGELLAN GPS SUBSIDIARY TO THALES FOR $70 MILLION Orbital Sciences Corp. 29 May 2001 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with Thales Group to sell the company's Magellan Corporation majority-owned subsidiary and its interest in Navigation Solutions LLC (NavSol), a joint venture with The Hertz Corporation, for approximately $70 million.