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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 15 May 2006 [PDF]
• TWO MARINES DIE FROM ENEMY ACTION IN AL ANBAR
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• TWO SOLDIERS DIE IN HELICOPTER CRASH

• CENTAF releases combined airpower summary AFPN 15 May 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for May 12 to 13.
• Global Hawk operations reach new high AFPN 15 May 2006 -- Battlefield awareness has reached new levels with Global Hawk production-model aircraft flying in the U.S. Central Command Air Forces theater.
• Coalition Forces in Iraq Kill, Detain Dozens of Terrorists AFPS 15 May 2006 -- Coalition forces killed more than 40 terrorists and detained 13 suspected terrorists in various raids May 13 and yesterday throughout Iraq, military officials in Iraq reported.
• Operation Iron Triangle shuts down insurgent training camp Army News 15 May 2006 -- Iraqi army and U.S. Soldiers raided a suspected insurgent training camp during Operation Iron Triangle near Lake Thar Thar, southwest of Tikrit May 9.
• Decatur Joins French Task Force in Arabian Sea Navy NewsStand 15 May 2006 -- USS Decatur (DDG 73) assumed another large role in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations by joining with a French-led task force in the North Arabian Sea May 5.
• Enemy Rockets Injure Afghans; Roadside-Bomb Makers Detained AFPS 15 May 2006 -- Afghan civilians were injured by rockets today in Bermel, Afghanistan, and Afghan and coalition forces detained seven terrorists during a combined operation yesterday, military officials reported.
• National Guard Activated in Response to New England Flooding AFPS 15 May 2006 -- The governors of New Hampshire and Massachusetts activated the National Guard yesterday in response to flooding and road closures across both states.

Defense Policy / Programs

• DoD Announces Installation Realignment in United Kingdom 15 May 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today that it would cease operations at RAF Eastcote and reduce operations at RAF West Ruislip, United Kingdom.
• Global Hawk operations reach new high AFPN 15 May 2006 -- Battlefield awareness has reached new levels with Global Hawk production-model aircraft flying in the U.S. Central Command Air Forces theater.
• Alternate fuel-powered B-52 to fly in September AFPN 15 May 2006 -- This year, the Air Force will test fly a B-52 Stratofortress that is powered in part by fuel derived from natural gas.
• GW Arrives in Antigua Navy NewsStand 15 May 2006 -- USS George Washington (CVN 73) and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 arrived in Antigua May 15 for a goodwill port visit as part of the ship’s current deployment.
• Enterprise Hosts Moroccan Dignitaries Navy NewsStand 15 May 2006 -- USS Enterprise (CVN 65) played host to a special delegation of Moroccan dignitaries, high-ranking military officers and media May 12.
• Nicaraguan Sailors Train with Stout Navy NewsStand 15 May 2006 -- USS Stout (DDG 55) and members of the Nicaraguan navy spent two days interacting and training May 11-12 to strengthen relations between the two navies as part of a theater security cooperation exercise in the Caribbean Sea.
• ICC: Coming soon to a base near you AFPN 15 May 2006 -- The ICC is a standardized alignment of functions, processes and positions that will be familiar to Airmen deployed to forward operating locations
• 12th Cav. Regt. the first to fire tank-mounted CROWS Army News 15 May 2006 -- Members of Company D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment recently became the first U.S.-based unit to have the Common Remotely Operated Weapons Station, and the only unit in the world to have it mounted on Abrams tanks.
• Pentagon Prepares to Help Control US-Mexico Border VOA 15 May 2006 -- In a speech on immigration policy Monday evening, President Bush is expected to announce an expansion in the use of National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border to help reduce the flow of illegal immigrants
• Guard Likely to Support Border Patrol, National Security Adviser Says AFPS 15 May 2006 -- Placing U.S. National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexican border will bolster the nation's security, the president's national security adviser said yesterday.
• Bush: 6,000 National Guardsmen to Assist Border Patrol in U.S. Southwest AFPS 15 May 2006 -- Southwestern border states will deploy up to 6,000 National Guardsmen to provide support to border patrol missions, President Bush said this evening in a nationally televised speech.

• DoD Releases Names of 759 Current, Former Guantanamo Detainees AFPS 15 May 2006 -- Defense officials today released 201 more names of detainees at the U.S. facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• Press Briefing on the President's Speech on Immigration The White House 15 May 2006
• Daily Press Briefing US Department of State 15 May 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for May 15, 2006
• Ambush A BAE Systems sub in the suburbs BAE Systems 15 May 2006 -- The 235 tonne forward section of Ambush, the second of the Astute class submarines being built by BAE Systems in Barrow in Furness, North West England took to the road last Thursday, 11 May.
• CACI Responds to Media Report CACI 15 May 2006 -- CACI International Inc (NYSE:CAI) announced today that it is aware of the media reports published over the weekend regarding BAE's possible interest in CACI as a U.S. acquisition target. As a matter of company policy, CACI does not comment on the existence or non-existence of potential merger and acquisition transactions in the market place. The company will continue to execute its strategic growth plan to reach $3 billion in annual revenue by its fiscal year ending June 30, 2009.
• Finland, fourth European country and seventh in the world that orders EADS CASA’s C-295 aircraft EADS 15 May 2006 -- The Finnish Air Force today signed the contract with EADS CASA to purchase two (2) C-295 military transport aircraft, with an option to purchase a further five (5).
• Northrop Grumman Successfully Tests ICBM Advanced Technology Rocket Motor Northrop Grumman 15 May 2006 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) successfully completed a static test fire of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) technology-demonstrator motor on May 2 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
• Hamilton Sundstrand awarded follow-on orders for V-22 Osprey electric power generator systems Hamilton Sundstrand 15 May 2006 -- Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), announced today that it has received $15 million in additional electric power generator orders for the Boeing Company’s V-22 Osprey aircraft.
• Raytheon Receives $37 Million U.S. Navy Award for F/A-18 Threat Protection Systems Raytheon 15 May 2006 -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $36.9 million contract for production of its ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receiver system for the U.S. Navy. The ALR-67(V)3 is the state-of-the-art radar warning receiver on U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F carrier-based tactical aircraft.
• Boeing Statement Regarding Tentative Settlement with Justice Department Boeing 15 May 2006
• Raytheon's Cobra Judy Replacement Program Completes Hardware Critical Design Review Raytheon 15 May 2006 -- Raytheon Company, with principal teammate Northrop Grumman Electronics, successfully completed a Cobra Judy Replacement (CJR) Mission Equipment (ME) Program hardware Critical Design Review (CDR) March 29, 2006.
• BAE Systems Proposes its Skylynx Unmanned Aircraft System for Marine Corps Tier II Program BAE Systems 15 May 2006 -- BAE Systems has submitted its bid for the U.S. Marine Corps Tier II unmanned aircraft system (UAS) program. The company is proposing a UAS centered on its "Skylynx" platform, a more versatile, mission-configurable alternative to competing systems.
• BAE Systems launch Deployable Surveillance Unit (DSU) BAE Systems 15 May 2006 -- BAE Systems focus on Homeland Security at Milipol is Border and Perimeter Protection and Coastal Surveillance. BAE Systems has developed a number of systems to maintain and enhance the security and integrity of national boundaries.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 15 May 2006
• Senior UN Official Optimistic Darfur Accord Will Work VOA 15 May 2006 -- The United Nations' top emergency relief coordinator says he is optimistic the agreement to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region can work.
• UN moves on several fronts to reinforce Darfur peace accord UN News Centre 15 May 2006 -- United Nations officials mobilized today to press for a robust peacekeeping force and a speedy disbursement of humanitarian funds to back up a peace accord signed 10 days ago between the Sudanese Government and a major rebel group in the western Darfur region of Africa's largest country.
• Mogadishu Quiet, But Some Fighters Deny Groups Signed Truce VOA 15 May 2006 -- The break in violence in Somalia's main city, Mogadishu, has continued for a second day, but some fighters deny reports that the warring factions agreed to a truce on Sunday.
• SOMALIA: Truce holding after days of clashes in capital IRIN 15 May 2006 -- A ceasefire appeared to be holding on Monday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, after seven days of fighting between heavily armed militias in which at least 190 people were killed and hundreds more injured.
• SOMALIA: Eleven die in interclan clashes in the northwest IRIN 15 May 2006 -- At least 11 people were killed and 10 wounded in fighting that broke out on Saturday between rival subclans in a village in western Somaliland, a self-declared republic in northwestern Somalia.
• Nepal's Government Debates Cutting King's Powers VOA 15 May 2006 -- The Nepalese government is finalizing proposals that could drastically clip the king's powers and privileges.
• COTE D IVOIRE: Prime minister nudges divided country to peace IRIN 15 May 2006 -- A pilot programme to identify millions of Ivorians who do not have nationality and voter papers is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, according to Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, nudging Cote d'Ivoire closer to peace-sealing polls.
• UN Security Council renews UN Mission in Eritrea, Ethiopia until end of May UN News Centre 15 May 2006 -- Anticipating a positive outcome from the next meeting of the commission demarcating the disputed boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia later this week, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the peacekeeping UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) until the end of this month.
• Georgia, Abkhazia say pleased with UN-backed Tbilisi talks RIA Novosti 15 May 2006 -- Georgia and Abkhazia praised the results of UN-sponsored talks held Monday as a bid to break a long-standing impasse over the status of the self-proclaimed republic.

News Reports

• Analysis: Libya in from the Cold cfr.org 15 May 2006 -- The preemption doctrine is working. At least, that's what the Bush administration officials say in regard to Libya.
• U.S Normalizes Relations With Libya RFE/RL 15 May 2006 -- The United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with Libya and will remove the North African nation from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
• US to Normalize Ties With Libya VOA 15 May 2006 -- The United States has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in a quarter of a century, and will remove it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
• U.S. Diplomatic Relations with Libya US Department of State 15 May 2006 -- I am pleased to announce that the United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with Libya.
• Afghanistan: FM Says Kabul Ready To Help Ease Tensions Between U.S. And Iran RFE/RL 15 May 2006 -- New Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta said today in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan that his country is ready to play a role in reducing tensions between its ally, the United States, and neighboring Iran over Tehran's nuclear activities.
• With new parties, pact to clear unexploded war ordnance will take effect - UN UN News Centre 15 May 2006 -- The horrendous legacy of unexploded ordnance that continues to kill and maim people, especially children, years after the wars that seeded it have ended may at last be mitigated now that a United Nations-backed protocol has received sufficient ratifications to enter into force in November.
• James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Membrane Passes Critical Space-Readiness Tests Northrop Grumman 15 May 2006 -- A Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) team successfully completed a series of stringent tests that proved a key element of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can function successfully in its planned space environment. Northrop Grumman is prime contractor for JWST and leads the telescope's overall system design and development effort under contract to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.