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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 24 Oct 2006 [PDF]
• 2 Marines killed in Al Anbar
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Press Briefing, Oct. 24, 2006 MNF-I 24 Oct 2006 -- AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD AND GENERAL CASEY HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE, BAGHDAD, IRAQ
• Transcript: DoD Press Briefing with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace 24 Oct 2006 -- Presenter: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace
• CENTAF Airpower Summary for Oct. 24 AFPN 24 Oct 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Oct. 23.
• Search for Missing U.S. Soldier Continues in Baghdad AFPS 24 Oct 2006 -- Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers are searching for U.S. soldier missing since yesterday evening.
• RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Volume 5, Number 26 24 October 2006

Defense Policy / Programs

• Essex Celebrates 14 Years in the Fleet Navy NewsStand 24 Oct 2006 -- USS Essex (LHD 2) celebrated 14 years as a commissioned U.S. Navy ship with a cake cutting ceremony on the ship's mess decks Oct. 17.
• NBG Improve Combat Readiness During Annual Exercise Navy NewsStand 24 Oct 2006 -- Sailors from Naval Beach Group (NBG) 1 implemented for the first time the use of boat operations and a tactical environment command and control center during their annual Field Exercise at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Oct. 14-27.
• Atlantic Strike provides joint training for interdependent warfighters AFPN 24 Oct 2006 -- Airmen, Marines, Soldiers and Sailors started joint training for air and ground operations as part of Atlantic Strike IV at Avon Park Air Force Range, Fla., Oct. 23.
• Pace Confident Americans Will Grasp Nature of Terrorist Threat AFPS 24 Oct 2006 -- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today expressed confidence that the American people will unite to defeat the terrorist threat once they see it for what it is.
• Pace: Will of American People is Enemy's 'Center of Gravity' AFPS 24 Oct 2006 -- The American people will make the right decisions in Iraq if they understand what's at stake in the war on terror, the top U.S. military general said here today.
• Pace Defines 'Winning' in War on Terror AFPS 24 Oct 2006 -- Defining "winning" is important to the war on terror, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at a news conference today.
• Russia, NATO conduct missile defense exercises RIA Novosti 24 Oct 2006 -- Russia and NATO practiced Tuesday a simulated scenario to repel a potential ballistic missile attack.
• Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 24 Oct 2006
• Press Gaggle by Tony Fratto The White House 24 Oct 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for October 24, 2006
• Future Combat Systems Team Opens Field Test Center in New Mexico Boeing 24 Oct 2006 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, yesterday celebrated the opening of the Army's Test Operation Complex at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), N.M. The complex will support experimentation, test, training and integration activities for the Army's Evaluation Brigade Combat Team (EBCT) -- a unit tasked with testing and evaluating FCS technologies as they come online beginning in 2008.
• U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Team Successfully Launch Miniature Air Launched Decoys Raytheon 24 Oct 2006 -- A series of Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) ADM-160B Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) vehicles demonstrated successful separation performance when launched from an Air Force F-16 aircraft.
• GE Officially Opens Presidential Helicopter Engine Facility GE Aviation 24 Oct 2006 -- Aviation officially opened its new Presidential Helicopter engine facility at the Lynn, Massachusetts, plant. The dedicated area in Lynn Product Development & Delivery will house the assembly and shipment operations of engines for the next-generation "Marine One" helicopter that will be used by the President of the United States.
• Sagem Défense Sécurité modernizes the navigation system of the Collins submarines of Australia Sagem (Safran group) 24 Oct 2006 -- Australian Government’s Defence Material Organisation (Commonwealth of Australia) chose Sagem Défense Sécurité (SAFRAN Group) to modernize the navigation systems of the Australian Navy’s six Collins class submarines.
• Sikorsky Tests World's Most Advanced Search and Rescue Helicopter Flight Controls Sikorsky 24 Oct 2006 -- Sikorsky Aircraft is finishing developmental flight tests of its S-92TM helicopter with a search and rescue automatic flight control system (AFCS) that is able to lock in and fly point-in-space approaches, hands-off, and hover for rescues. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX).
• Thales to support maintenance of Chilean frigates Thales 24 Oct 2006 -- The MoU was signed by Rear Admiral H.J. Pearce, Director of ASMAR and A.C. Blokhuis, Vice President of Thales Naval Services Nederland. In the MoU, ASMAR and Thales express their intention to sign a contract on this matter in November 2006, at Exponaval in Chile.
• SAIC Awarded Contract to Assist the Air Force in Its Alternative Infrared Satellite System Risk Reduction Program SAIC 24 Oct 2006 -- Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) announced today it won a cost-plus award fee contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/VS) with a ceiling value of approximately $25 million, and a 29-month period of performance.
• Raytheon Successfully Integrates Final Element of Dual Band Radar for DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer Raytheon 24 Oct 2006 -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has successfully integrated the engineering development model, S-Band array with receiver, exciter and signal/data processing equipment for the Volume Search Radar (VSR) portion of the DDG 1000 destroyer's Dual Band Radar (DBR).

Other Conflicts

• Lebanon: UN Force Commander concerned at rising number of Israeli air violations UN News Centre 24 Oct 2006 -- The military leader of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today voiced serious concern over the increasing number of air violations over South Lebanon by Israeli planes, with nine occurring during the past 24 hours.
• Mali Rebels Clash With Algerian Extremists VOA 24 Oct 2006 -- At least five former Tuareg rebels have died in a clash with Algerian Islamic militants in northern Mali, just days before the ex-rebels were set to disarm under a peace deal with Mali's central government.
• NEPAL: Concerns over growing insecurity, despite ceasefire IRIN 24 Oct 2006 -- Human rights groups and other independent observers in Nepal expressed concern on Monday that the rising level of abduction, extortion, torture and killing by some Maoist factions was threatening to derail the country's fragile peace process and destabilise the state.
• DRC: UN and European security forces vigilant ahead of presidential run-off IRIN 24 Oct 2006 -- As presidential rivals Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba prepare for an electoral run-off in the Congo on Sunday, the two international forces in charge of security during the polls, say they are ready to quell any violence that erupts.
• Ukraine ready to send peacekeepers to Lebanon-FM Tarasyuk RIA Novosti 24 Oct 2006 -- Ukraine has offered to send a military contingent to take part in the UN peacekeeping operation in Lebanon, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday.
• New Cabinet Appointment Tilts Israel to Right VOA 24 Oct 2006 -- Israel's cabinet is expected to approve the appointment of a far-right politician to a cabinet portfolio on Wednesday
• Pronk Expulsion Creates Rift in Sudanese Government VOA 24 Oct 2006 -- Sudan's decision to expel United Nations envoy Jan Pronk has created a rift within the government

News Reports

• Vote Nears on Arms Trade Treaty Resolution VOA 24 Oct 2006 -- On Thursday (10/26), a UN panel is expected to vote on whether to begin work on a global arms trade treaty