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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Sep 2006 [PDF]
• Soldier killed in Al Anbar Province
• MND-B Soldier killed by roadside bomb
• Statement on al-Anbar province MNF-I 13 Sep 2006 -- Recent media reports fail to accurately capture the entirety and complexity of the current situation in the al-Anbar province of Iraq. The classified assessment, which has been referred to in these reports, was intended to focus on the causes of the insurgency. It was not intended to address the positive effects Coalition and Iraqi forces have achieved on the security environment over the past years
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Sept. 13 AFPN 13 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Sept. 13.
• Iraqi Police, Army Capture Several Insurgents AFPS 13 Sep 2006 -- Iraqi police detained three suspected insurgents and discovered a makeshift bomb near a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 11, U.S. military officials said.
• Iraq Car Bomb Kills 22, Bodies of 60 Torture Victims Found in Capital VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- A car bomb explosion in Baghdad has killed at least 14 Iraqis and wounded nearly 60 others.
• NATO: Additional Troops Not Needed in Afghanistan VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- NATO says its counter-offensive against the Taleban has achieved most of its objectives in Afghanistan.
• NATO Says Afghan Operation 'Successful' RFE/RL 13 Sep 2006 -- A NATO official said today the alliance's Operation Medusa against the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province is achieving its objectives successfully.
• US Secretary of State Rice Calls for Continued Fighting Against the Taleban VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Afghanistan must become a stable democracy that fights terrorism. Suicide bombers have killed a number of people in Afghanistan in recent days, including a provincial governor.
• NATO Says No To Opium Destruction In Afghanistan RFE/RL 13 Sep 2006 -- NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has rejected a call from the head of the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime that alliance forces in Afghanistan be ordered to destroy the country's opium industry.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Army Readiness Detailed Army News Release 13 Sep 2006 -- The United States Army is the best in the world, primarily because of the uncompromising values of our Soldiers and the exemplary leadership of our Commissioned and Non-commissioned Officers.
• Navy Christen's New Guided Missile Destroyer Sampson 13 Sep 2006 -- The latest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, Sampson (DDG 102), will be christened Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006, during an 11 a.m. EDT ceremony at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
• Target Missile Malfunction Halts THAAD Flight Test in New Mexico Missile Defense Agency 13 Sep 2006 -- The Missile Defense Agency was unable to complete a planned flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system today due to a target missile failure at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
• Transcript: DoD Biobased Showcase and Educational Event at the Pentagon 13 Sep 2006 -- Presenter: Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England
• Officials award $589 million Weapon System Integrator contract AFPN 13 Sep 2006 -- Officials with the Electronic Systems Center's 350th Electronic Systems Group awarded a $589 million contract Sept. 12 to Lockheed Martin Corp. to serve as the Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System Integrator.
• Business changes dramatically for air operations center AFPN 13 Sep 2006 -- The way business is done has dramatically changed at the 1st Air Force Air Operations Center here.
• Tight fit for GM-3 will save $360K per flight AFPN 13 Sep 2006 -- Members of the 4th Space Operations Squadron here successfully loaded their Ground Mobile-3 vehicle onto a C-17 Globemaster III Sept. 10, proving a concept that will save the Air Force more than $360,000 each time the GM-3 deploys.
• USAFE Airmen support Med Flag 2006 in Ghana AFPN 13 Sep 2006 -- More than 50 Airmen from United States Air Forces in Europe arrived in Tamale, Ghana, Sept. 9 to participate in a humanitarian exercise called Med Flag 2006.
• Chemical school ramps up biological training Army News 13 Sep 2006 -- Fort Leonard Wood's Chemical Defense Training Facility integrated the use of a non-pathogenic biological agent into their ongoing training Aug. 1 to prepare Soldiers for updated field missions.
• RIVRON 1 Completes Another Phase of Maritime Security Training AFPN 13 Sep 2006 -- Sixty Sailors from Riverine Squadron (RIVRON) 1, a Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), successfully completed the first of two phases of small unit riverine craft (SURC) training through the Special Missions Training Center (SMTC) at Camp Lejeune along the water banks of Cape Fear River Sept. 10.
• USS Stephen W. Groves Earns Silver Surface Warfare Excellence Pennant Navy NewsStand 13 Sep 2006 -- The crew of USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG 29) reached a major professional milestone when they were awarded the Silver Surface Warfare Excellence Pennant by Capt. Dave Robertson, commander, Destroyer Squadron 14 in early August.
• USS Vandegrift Completes Homeport Change Navy NewsStand 13 Sep 2006 -- USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) completed her change of homeport Sept. 1, transiting from Yokosuka, Japan, to Naval Base San Diego after 10 years of service in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.
• Kearsarge Completes PANAMAX 2006 Navy NewsStand 13 Sep 2006 -- The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) completed PANAMAX 2006 Aug. 30 in the Caribbean Sea.
• United States, South Korea Will Review, Reaffirm Alliance Washington File 13 Sep 2006 -- President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will discuss a variety of issues and reaffirm their countries' bilateral alliance during Roh's two-day visit to Washington September 13-14.
• Russian to buy Yak-130s despite trainer crash - minister RIA Novosti 13 Sep 2006 -- Russia's defense minister said Wednesday that Air Force would buy new Yak-130 planes regardless of a recent trainer crash.
• Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 13 Sep 2006
• Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 13 Sep 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for September 13, 2006
• ATK Receives $66 Million in Additional Small-Caliber Ammunition Orders ATK 13 Sep 2006 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK), the largest supplier of small-caliber ammunition to the United States military, has received approximately $66 million in additional small- caliber orders from the U.S. Army Field Service Command, Rock Island, Ill., since April 2006. ATK operates the U.S. Army's Lake City small-caliber ammunition plant in Independence, Mo., where it produces a mix of 5.56mm, 7.62mm, 50-caliber and various other small-caliber rounds.
• LOCKHEED MARTIN TEAM AWARDED CONTRACT FOR U.S. AIR FORCE AIR AND SPACE OPERATIONS (AOC) INTEGRATION Lockheed Martin 13 Sep 2006 -- The United States Air Force has selected an industry team led by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] to be the Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System Integrator (AOC WSI). Under this multi-year contract, the team will work with the Air Force to standardize, modernize, sustain and transform the more than 20 AOCs worldwide into interoperable net-centric weapon systems that will provide commanders real-time, common operational views of the global battlefield. The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, cost-plus-fixed fee, and cost-plus-award fee contract, including funding for operations, maintenance, and sustainment, is worth $589 million.
• NORWEGIAN FRIGATE WITH LOCKHEED MARTIN'S SPY-1F AEGIS COMBAT SYSTEM SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES FIRST MISSILE FIRING AND ENGAGEMENT Lockheed Martin 13 Sep 2006 -- The Norwegian frigate F-310 Fridtjof Nansen successfully intercepted its target during the first live missile firing test of its Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-developed SPY-1F Aegis Weapon System Tuesday in the North Atlantic.
• Oshkosh Truck Recognized for Providing Employment Opportunities to Veterans Oshkosh 13 Sep 2006 -- Oshkosh Truck Corporation [NYSE: OSK], a leading manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies, announced that the company has received the “Large Employer of the Year” award from the American Legion for its practice of hiring veterans. Because of veterans’ valuable experience gained during military service, Oshkosh Truck often directly targets its recruiting efforts, for openings in all business units, toward veterans who have recently left the military and are looking for their next career opportunity.
• SAIC Acquires Varec, Inc. SAIC 13 Sep 2006 -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Varec, Inc., a market leader in measurement, control and automation systems, supplying integrated hardware and software to oil and gas, defense, and aviation markets.

Other Conflicts

• Hezbollah Leader: Group Still in Southern Lebanon Despite Ceasefire VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- Hezbollah's leader says the group is still in southern Lebanon, one month after a U.N.-brokered ceasefire ended Hezbollah's war with Israel.
• Israel-Hizbollah war showed need for a wider Middle East accord: Annan UN News Centre 13 Sep 2006 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the recent conflict in Lebanon had been a "wake-up" call to the governments he visited during his recent diplomacy in the region, highlighting the need for a wider Middle East peace settlement.
• State's Welch Offers Cautious Optimism on Lebanon Ceasefire Washington File 13 Sep 2006 -- In what he characterized as "a summer of stress and hardship," Assistant Secretary of State C. David Welch told U.S. senators he sees U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 as a vital tool for permanently stabilizing Lebanon.
• US Official Says Disarming Hezbollah Key Challenge in Lebanon VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- A senior U.S. official has offered a positive assessment of the situation in Lebanon
• German Cabinet Approves Naval Force for Lebanon VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- Germany's cabinet has voted to send warships to the Mediterranean to lead the naval force patrolling Lebanon's coastline.
• AU Approves Regional Peacekeeping Force for Somalia VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- The African Union Wednesday endorsed a plan to send a regional peacekeeping force into volatile Somalia
• Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Foreign Minister Says Peace Negotiators Optimistic RFE/RL 13 Sep 2006 -- Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has told RFE/RL that international mediators involved in negotiations on a Nagorno-Karabakh peace settlement believe a framework peace agreement is still possible this year.
• Annan warns Darfur is heading for disaster unless UN peacekeepers move in UN News Centre 13 Sep 2006 -- Darfur is headed for a disaster unless the Sudanese Government changes its mind and allows a force of United Nations peacekeepers to take over from the existing African Union (AU) operation in the strife-torn region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
• Integration is the answer for Kosovo's Serbs, UN envoy tells Security Council UN News Centre 13 Sep 2006 -- The senior United Nations envoy in Kosovo today told the Security Council that integration, not isolation, is the answer for the minority Serb population, as the 15-member body met to discuss Secretary-General Kofi Annan's latest report on the future status of the UN-run province.
• CHAD: Govt and rebels clash in east IRIN 13 Sep 2006 -- Government military planes, vehicles and troops were flooding in and out of the military hub Abeche in eastern Chad on Wednesday following fighting with rebels in the region earlier this week.
• Sri Lankan minister denies unconditional talks with LTTE IRNA 13 Sep 2006 -- A Sri Lankan minister on Wednesday denied that the government had agreed to unconditional talks with Tamil Tiger rebels and slammed peace broker Norway for making a premature announcement.
• EU has no interest in S. Ossetia independence referendum results RIA Novosti 13 Sep 2006 -- Results of a referendum on the independence of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia will have no meaning to the European Union, the EU special representative to the South Caucasus said.
• Islamic group which claimed helicopter downing "a myth" RIA Novosti 13 Sep 2006 -- The security chief of a southern Russian republic dismissed Wednesday the existence of an extremist Islamic group in North Ossetia as a myth.

News Reports

• ATK, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Form Team to Compete for Ares I Upper Stage ATK 13 Sep 2006 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a business unit of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), announced today that they have teamed together in preparation for NASA's Ares I Upper Stage procurement, planned for early 2007.
• ATK, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Form Team to Compete for Ares I Upper Stage Lockheed Martin 13 Sep 2006 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (NYSE: UTX) announced today that they have teamed together in preparation for NASA’s Ares I Upper Stage procurement, planned for early 2007.
• ATK, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Form Team to Compete for Ares I Upper Stage Pratt & Whitney 13 Sep 2006 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (NYSE: UTX) announced today that they have teamed together in preparation for NASA’s Ares I Upper Stage procurement, planned for early 2007.