Operations
Defense Policy / Programs
Defense Industry
Other Conflicts
News Reports

Current Operations

• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Nov. 11 airpower summary: F-16s support mission AFPN 12 Nov 2007
• The Raven puts more eyes in the sky AFPN 12 Nov 2007 -- The little cousin of the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper is making a big splash here as the RQ-11B Raven program takes flight.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Bush Pays Tribute to Fallen Troops, Thanks Veterans AFPS 12 Nov 2007 -- During a ceremony at the American Legion post in Waco, Texas, yesterday, President Bush told the families of four servicemembers who died in Iraq that "their sacrifice will not be in vain.
• Flash Fire Aboard USS Lake Champlain Navy NewsStand 12 Nov 2007 -- On Nov. 10, five National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) workers and one employee of Cornwall, a local NASSCO subcontractor, were involved in a flash fire aboard the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57).
• Change of Helm at the Center for SEAL and SWCC Navy NewsStand 12 Nov 2007 -- Commander, Center for SEAL and SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewman) held a change of command ceremony at Naval Special Warfare Command, Naval Amphibious Base Coronado Nov. 7.
• Press Gaggle by Dana Perino The White House 12 Nov 2007

Defense Industry

• BAE Systems New Helmet Mounted Display Technology Makes Middle East Debut BAE Systems 12 Nov 2007 -- BAE Systems has developed new helmet-mounted display technology that addresses a critical need for enhanced situational awareness. Known as Q-sight, the system makes its Middle East debut at the Dubai Air Show.
• Direct Hit for Typhoon BAE Systems 12 Nov 2007 -- The Typhoon Combined Test Team (CTT), comprising staff from BAE Systems and the RAF, has successfully completed the first mission to drop a laser guided bomb, scoring a direct hit at the Aberporth range in the UK.
• First F-35 STOVL Aircraft Powers-up for Success BAE Systems 12 Nov 2007 -- Electrical power has been applied to the first Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 Lightning II for the first time, initiating a series of ground tests that will lead to the inaugural flight of the STOVL aircraft next spring.
• F-35 - The Great Escape BAE Systems 12 Nov 2007 -- BAE Systems has completed Design Verification Testing for the crew escape system for the Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 Lighting II.
• Typhoon Heading for Success BAE Systems 12 Nov 2007 -- Typhoon's world leading helmet, known as Head Equipment Assembly (HEA), is currently undergoing its latest development trials.
• Boeing KC-767 Tanker Win Would Benefit Oklahoma Economy Boeing 12 Nov 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that Oklahoma will benefit from an estimated 400 direct and indirect jobs if it is selected to build the U.S. Air Force's new tanker aircraft fleet.
• EADS Defence & Security to provide an integrated maritime security system for the new port in Tangier EADS 12 Nov 2007 -- EADS Defence & Security (DS) has been awarded a major contract by the Tanger Mediterranean Special Agency (TMSA) of Morocco to provide an integrated maritime security system for the brand new port Tanger Med
• General Dynamics Awarded $83 Million Contract to Develop and Produce Navy Common Enterprise Display Systems General Dynamics 12 Nov 2007 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the total potential value of $83 million for the development, qualification, production and support of the Common Enterprise Display System (CEDS) display consoles
• Bath Iron Works Awarded $142 Million for Work on DDG 1000 ZUMWALT Class Destroyers General Dynamics 12 Nov 2007 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a $142 million contract modification to continue work on the new DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class of destroyers
• LOCKHEED MARTIN AWARDED $2.3 MILLION CONTRACT TO CONTINUE WORK ON ISRAELI NAVY LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP Lockheed Martin 12 Nov 2007 -- The U.S. Navy recently awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a $2.3 million foreign military sales contract to continue concept and preliminary design work on the proposed Israeli Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), known as LCS-I.
• Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Engines Lift Air Force DSP-23 Satellite into Orbit Pratt & Whitney 12 Nov 2007 -- A trio of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) RS-68 engines and a PWR RL10 upper stage engine worked in concert to boost an Air Force Delta IV Heavy rocket on Saturday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
• Raytheon Selected for Army Common Sensor Payload Raytheon 12 Nov 2007 -- The U.S. Army has selected Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) to provide a common sensor payload for manned and unmanned aircraft in a program that could represent more than $1 billion in potential sales.
• BLACK HAWK Helicopters Serving Jordan's Special Force Sikorsky 12 Nov 2007 -- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has completed delivery of eight UH-60L BLACK HAWK helicopters to the Kingdom of Jordan. Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), made the announcement during the Dubai Air Show.
• United Arab Emirates Purchases 10 Sikorsky BLACK HAWK Helicopters Sikorsky 12 Nov 2007 -- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) have signed a direct commercial sale contract for 10 S-70A BLACK HAWK helicopters to upgrade the fleet used by U.A.E. Armed Forces. Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX).
• BAE Systems Wins Unique Approval For Unmanned Air Systems BAE Systems 12 Nov 2007 -- BAE Systems has become the first UK-based aerospace business to gain design approval under the UK MOD Design Approved Organisation Scheme (DAOS) for Unmanned Air Vehicle Systems without a weight limit.
• BAE Systems' HERTI Makes Middle East Debut at Dubai 2007 BAE Systems 12 Nov 2007 -- Fresh from an RAF deployment to Afghanistan, one of the world's first fully autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAV) will make its Middle East debut at Dubai 2007
• ATK Propulsion Technologies Help Launch Boeing's Delta IV Heavy Rocket ATK 12 Nov 2007 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) supported the successful launch of a Boeing Delta IV heavy rocket carrying the 23rd and final Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Support Program missile-warning satellite (DSP-23).
• Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Engines Lift Air Force DSP-23 Satellite into Orbit Pratt & Whitney 12 Nov 2007 -- A trio of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) RS-68 engines and a PWR RL10 upper stage engine worked in concert to boost an Air Force Delta IV Heavy rocket on Saturday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
• Thales celebrates its involvement in the United Arab Emirates' Mirage 2000-9 aircraft Thales 12 Nov 2007 -- Thales celebrates its involvement in the 32 new Dassault fighter aircraft Mirage 2000-9 and 30 Mirage 2000 aircraft retrofitted to – 9 standard being delivered currently to the United Arab Emirates Air Force and Air Defense.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 12 Nov 2007
• Israel to free up to 400 Palestinians ahead of peace conference RIA Novosti 12 Nov 2007 -- Israel will release up to 400 Palestinians prisoners ahead of an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, the U.S., scheduled for the end of the month, Israel's Haaretz daily said Monday.
• Israel Says It Will Release More Than 400 Palestinian Prisoners VOA 12 Nov 2007 -- Israel's prime minister says more than 400 Palestinian prisoners could be released this month before an upcoming Middle East peace conference
• European Commission Notes Rise In Somalia Wounded VOA 12 Nov 2007 -- Members of a European Commission delegation that visited Somalia last week have announced that 5,000 people have been wounded by fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents in the capital Mogadishu since the start of the year
• Global efforts to clear landmines by 2010 faltering, says UN-backed study UN News Centre 12 Nov 2007 -- A new report launched today by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) states that not all countries are on track to meeting the deadline of removing anti-personnel landmines by 2010 as called for in a landmark 1997 treaty banning the deadly weapons.
• UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia not realistic or viable, says Ban Ki-moon UN News Centre 12 Nov 2007 -- Deploying a United Nations peacekeeping operation to Somalia is not realistic or viable given the war-wracked African country's security situation, the intensifying insurgency and the lack of progress towards any political reconciliation, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says.
• SOMALIA: Mounting bloodshed prompts pleas for help from Mogadishu IRIN 12 Nov 2007 -- Local elders and civil society leaders have urged the international community to help stop the carnage in Mogadishu as heavy fighting in the Somali capital continued, leaving hospitals overwhelmed and many streets littered with bodies.
• Secretary-General lauds DR Congo-Rwanda agreement on threats to peace UN News Centre 12 Nov 2007 -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commended the Governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda for reaching agreement on a common approach to end threats to peace and stability in the two countries and the region.
• CONGO: Conflict leaves legacy of widespread addiction IRIN 12 Nov 2007 -- Many of the atrocities committed during the armed conflicts that have plagued the Republic of Congo in recent years were fuelled by illicit narcotics

News Reports

• Pakistan's Bhutto Placed Under Seven-Day House Arrest VOA 12 Nov 2007 -- Pakistani police have placed opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for the second time in less than a week to stop her from leading a mass rally against emergency rule.
• Commonwealth Gives Musharraf November 22 Deadline VOA 12 Nov 2007 -- Foreign ministers from the Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies said Monday it would suspend Pakistan from the organization unless President Pervez Musharraf lifted the state of emergency by November 22
• Pakistan's Bhutto Prepares 'Long March' Against Emergency Rule VOA 12 Nov 2007 -- Opposition calls for an end to emergency rule in Pakistan grew louder Monday as former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto prepared a 300-kilometer protest tour against President Pervez Musharraf.
• Huge US Reserves of Oil Shale Hold Promise, But at High Cost VOA 12 Nov 2007 -- As the price of oil soars on world markets and demand for energy grows, energy companies are looking at so-called unconventional sources such as Canada's oil sands and the vast deposits of oil shale in the Rocky Mountain states
• Ban Ki-moon urges redoubling of efforts to resolve Myanmar crisis UN News Centre 12 Nov 2007 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today encouraged the Myanmar authorities and all relevant parties to redouble their efforts towards achieving national reconciliation, democracy and full respect for human rights.
• UN Rights Envoy in Burma Visits Detention Center For Political Prisoners, Monasteries VOA 12 Nov 2007 -- The United Nations' human rights envoy, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, began a five-day trip to Burma with visits to a Buddhist monastery and a prison in Rangoon