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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 06 Feb 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• CENTAF releases combined airpower summary AFPN 06 Feb 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for Feb. 4 to 6.
• Afghan Leader Discusses Taliban Attacks, Desperation AFPS 06 Feb 2006 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that while Taliban and al Qaeda attacks have increased in southern and eastern parts of his country, the type of attacks show the terrorists' desperation.
• Coalition Winning in Afghanistan, General Says AFPS 06 Feb 2006 -- Despite a rise in attacks in Afghanistan, the coalition is winning the war there, said the coalition commander in the country.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Fiscal 2007 Department of Defense Budget is Released 06 Feb 2006 -- President George W. Bush today sent to Congress his defense budget for fiscal 2007. The budget requests $439.3 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense, a seven percent increase over enacted fiscal 2006 funding levels.
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing on Fiscal Year 2007 Budget 06 Feb 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Undersecretary Of Defense (Comptroller) Tina Jonas, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace
• Bush Proposes Seven Percent Increase in Defense Spending VOA 06 Feb 2006 -- President Bush's proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins in October calls for an increase of nearly seven percent in defense spending to $439 billion, and that does not include most of the cost for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Air Force's FY 2007 budget released AFPN 06 Feb 2006 -- As part of the president's fiscal year 2007 budget plan, the Air Force is set to receive $105.9 billion.
• Budget Request Focuses on Irregular Warfare, Transformation AFPS 06 Feb 2006 -- President Bush sent his $439.3 billion defense budget request for fiscal 2007 to Congress today, reflecting what Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld called a solid ongoing commitment to defeating global terrorism, transforming the military while increasing its capabilities, and taking care of men and women in uniform.
• Defense Leaders: Budget Proposal Helps Ensure National Security AFPS 06 Feb 2006 -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today urged people to think of the fiscal 2007 defense budget request not in terms of winners and losers, but rather in terms of the defense it will provide the American people.
• GW Earns Flight Deck Certification Navy NewsStand 06 Feb 2006 -- USS George Washington (CVN 73) (GW) and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 successfully completed flight deck certification Feb. 3, after the ship has not launched or recovered aircraft in more than a year. The certification comes four days after GW left Norfolk Naval Station.
• U.S. Navy P-3 Assist in Egyptian Ferry Search and Rescue Navy NewsStand 06 Feb 2006 -- A U.S. Navy P-3 Orion from Patrol Squadron (VP) 47 Golden Swordsmen assisted search and rescue operations for survivors of the sunken Egyptian ferry Al Salam Boccaccio 98 in the Red Sea, Feb. 4.
• Forrest Sherman Comes to New Home in Norfolk Navy NewsStand 06 Feb 2006 -- The guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) arrived at its new homeport at Naval Station Norfolk, Feb. 3, after being commissioned at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 28.
• 'Steel Hammer' Hosts JSDF Joint Staff College Navy NewsStand 06 Feb 2006 -- USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) welcomed 40 officers of the Japan Self Defense Force Joint Staff College for a ship tour during a visit to Yokosuka Naval Base Jan. 18.
• Guardian Completes Underway Training Navy NewsStand 06 Feb 2006 -- USS Guardian (MCM 5) returned to Sasebo, Japan, after completing underway mine sweep training and main space fire drills, Jan. 25.
• Patriot Goes Underway for Training Navy NewsStand 06 Feb 2006 -- USS Patriot (MCM 7) departed its forward deployed home of Sasebo, Japan, for a routine underway training period, Jan. 30.
• Edwards squadron writes book on CV-22 training AFPN 06 Feb 2006 -- Air Force is providing warfighters advanced and reliable tools to accomplish their mission by combining the capabilities of two distinctly different aircraft.
• DoD Uses Katrina Lessons to Improve Response Capability AFPS 06 Feb 2006 -- The U.S. military performed admirably as it responded to Hurricane Katrina during the largest, fastest civil support mission in U.S. history - but it needs to do better in the future, according to the Pentagon's chief of homeland security.
• NATO Head Calls for Expansion of Strategic Partnerships Washington File 06 Feb 2006 -- NATO must engage in broader political dialogue, expand its strategic partnerships and reform its funding mechanisms, says its secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
• French Frigate Rescues Somalis in Gulf of Aden Navy NewsStand 06 Feb 2006 -- The French Navy frigate FS Jacoubet (F 794), operating as part of a Dutch-led maritime task force in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, rescued almost 50 Somalis whose small boat had been disabled as they attempted to cross the Gulf of Aden Feb 4.
• State Department Briefing, February 6 Washington File 06 Feb 2006 -- Cambodia, Rice to attend funeral of Coretta Scott King, Denmark, Iran, Yemen, Palestinians, Venezuela, Greece, Haiti, Germany
• White House Briefing, February 6 Washington File 06 Feb 2006 -- World leader call, FY '07 budget, religious tolerance, terror surveillance program, India, Iran, Yemen, escaped al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Medicare, Abramoff, Gulf Coast

Defense Industry

• Boeing Begins First EA-18G Integration Following Successful Navy Reviews Boeing 06 Feb 2006 -- The U.S. Navy has approved Boeing's [NYSE: BA] test plans and processes for integrating several key subsystems into the EA-18G Growler aircraft weapons system. Successful completion by the EA-18G program of its first two test readiness reviews (TRR) allows Boeing to begin developing and integrating the systems at Boeing labs in St. Louis.
• Lockheed Martin Selects Award-Winning Troy, AL, Facility as Production Site for Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II Lockheed Martin 06 Feb 2006 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] plans to build the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II at its existing Pike County Operations facility in Troy, AL, if selected as contractor for the program. The final missile assembly will be in Troy, and seeker production will be at an existing facility in Ocala, FL.
• Successful Test of an AIM-9X Missile by a Raytheon-Led Team Demonstrates Potential for Low Cost Solution in Littoral Joint Battlespace Raytheon 06 Feb 2006 -- A Raytheon-led team successfully launched an AIM-9X from a stationary, vertical platform last November. The missile successfully locked on after launch and hit its target in a test of its potential launch from a submarine. The test was conducted for the Naval Sea Systems Command at the U.S. Army's McGregor Test Range in New Mexico Nov. 19, 2005.
• SAIC Added to Defense Research and Engineering Network SAIC 06 Feb 2006 -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that its Suffolk-based laboratory has been added to the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN). The DREN is the Department of Defense's research and engineering network that provides connectivity among 120 national laboratories and research organizations of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
• Thales signed multi-purpose transmitter system contract for the Swiss Army Thales 06 Feb 2006 -- A contract for the production and delivery of multi-purpose transmitter systems including management- and control software at a total amount of approx. € 60 millions. The delivery will take place until the end of 2008.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 06 Feb 2006
• U.S. Envoy Bolton Says U.S. Will Move "Fast" and "Far" on Darfur Washington File 06 Feb 2006 -- The transition from the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur is a complicated and logistically difficult mission, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told reporters February 3.
• CHAD-SUDAN: Mounting Darfur violence threatens talks, AU warns IRIN 06 Feb 2006 -- Mounting violence in Sudan's Darfur region is undermining talks taking place in the Nigerian capital to end the three-year conflict, according to the African Union (AU).
• Annan calls on Darfur parties to avoid slipping back into chaos UN News Centre 06 Feb 2006 -- With more violent clashes recorded last month in western Sudan's Darfur region, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling on all parties there to reach a negotiated settlement at their talks in Nigeria's capital while cautioning against the conflict's spread across the border with Chad.
• Darfur Rebels Troubled by Fighting Along Border VOA 06 Feb 2006 -- One of the main rebel groups in the Western Sudan Darfur region is calling for the African Union and United Nations to intervene urgently to halt further fighting along the Chad-Sudan border.
• COTE D IVOIRE: Security Council bolsters troubled peacekeeping force IRIN 06 Feb 2006 -- The United Nations Security Council on Monday agreed to send a company of peacekeeping troops from the UN mission in Liberia to war-torn neighbour Cote d'Ivoire after a spate of anti-UN violence.
• UN Orders Temporary Troop Deployment to Ivory Coast VOA 06 Feb 2006 -- The U.N. Security Council has ordered the temporary transfer of additional troops to Ivory Coast to assist peacekeeping forces in the country.
• Hamas Leaders Meeting in Cairo VOA 06 Feb 2006 -- Leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas are in Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders and each other
• Hamas Leaders Meet as Israel Strikes Militants VOA 06 Feb 2006 -- Leaders of the Islamic militant group Hamas have gathered in Cairo to hold talks with Egyptian officials and to discuss forming a government following their win in Palestinian parliament elections, two weeks ago
• UGANDA: UNICEF calls for renewed effort to end suffering in the north IRIN 06 Feb 2006 -- There is a need for new ideas and a fresh resolve to end the suffering of children in northern Uganda, a top official of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.
• SOMALIA: Six killed in clash over land in Somaliland IRIN 06 Feb 2006 -- At least six people were killed and more than 30 injured when rival Somali clans clashed over land on the outskirts of Hargeysa, the capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland.
• Philippines Holds New Round of Peace Talks with Muslim Rebels VOA 06 Feb 2006 -- The Philippine government and Muslim separatist rebels are holding two-days of peace talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in an effort to end a three-decade guerrilla war in the southern Philippines.
• Russia: Chechen Rebel Leader Reshuffles Ministers RFE/RL 06 Feb 2006 -- Chechen separatist leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev has announced a reshuffle targeting several top rebel representatives living abroad.

News Reports

• PRESS CONFERENCE ON HAITI ELECTIONS United Nations 06 Feb 2006
• Secretary-General calls on Haitians to vote in national elections tomorrow UN News Centre 06 Feb 2006 -- With national elections taking place in Haiti tomorrow, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the country's people to exercise peacefully their right to vote and respect the outcome while urging the incoming leadership to show a commitment to reconciliation and inclusiveness.
• Sea Launch Initiates Countdown for EchoStar X Launch Boeing 06 Feb 2006 -- The Sea Launch team has initiated a 72-hour countdown in preparation for the launch of the EchoStar X broadcast satellite on Wednesday, February 8, at the opening of a 49-minute launch window, at 3:35 pm Pacific Time (23:35 GMT).
• LOCKHEED MARTIN-BUILT ECHOSTAR X SATELLITE READY FOR LAUNCH FEB. 8, 2006 Lockheed Martin 06 Feb 2006 -- The EchoStar X telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for EchoStar Communications Corporation of Englewood, Colo., is ready for launch Feb. 8 aboard a Sea Launch Zenit launch vehicle provided by Sea Launch Company, LLC. EchoStar X is the first in a series of seven satellite launches planned this year for Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS).