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1. Senate committee approves $631.4B defense bill
AIA dailyLead® | May 25, 2012
The Senate Armed Services Committee this week moved to block planned cuts to the Air Force while calling for cuts to civilian Pentagon personnel as an offset. The $631.4 billion defense policy bill could go to the full Senate by next month. Reuters (05/24)
2. EADS: Eurocopter cracks are minor compared with A380 problems
AIA dailyLead® | May 29, 2012
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3. F-35B takes first flight from Eglin Air Force Base in Fla.
AIA dailyLead® | May 23, 2012
Lockheed Martin's F-35B this week took its first flight from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., part of a program of pilot training on the fighter jet. The F-35B can land like a helicopter and evade radar. Reuters (05/22)
4. Pratt & Whitney lays off 300 employees
AIA dailyLead® | May 25, 2012
Wall Street Journal, The (05/24)
5. Industry leaders: Managing spread of counterfeits is a huge challenge
AIA dailyLead® | May 24, 2012
Avoiding the flood of counterfeit electronics and other parts is a growing challenge for defense contractors and distributors, said attendees at a recent industry conference in California sponsored by information and analytics provider IHS. Kirsten Koepsel, director of legal affairs and tax at the Aerospace Industries Association, says stricter federal rules that companies must adhere to in order to avoid counterfeits also are a challenge. "All someone needs to do is make the boxes of counterfeit parts look like there are shoes inside -- and you will never know that fake parts are coming in," Koepsel said. Homeland Security Today (05/23)
6. Lockheed, faced with striking workers, starts hires temps
AIA dailyLead® | May 25, 2012
Lockheed Martin has begun hiring temporary workers to fill in for striking employees at its Fort Worth, Texas, plant, where a strike by International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers is in its fifth week. "We will add people incrementally each week as we need to," said Lockheed spokesman Joe Stout. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) (05/24)
7. Neil Armstrong warns against direction that NASA is taking
AIA dailyLead® | May 29, 2012
Politico (Washington, D.C.) (05/24)
8. Pentagon is experiencing flood of excess inventory
AIA dailyLead® | May 29, 2012
The Department of Defense is experiencing billions of dollars in excess parts, vehicles, weapons and other supplies, which will include material that soon will return from Afghanistan, experts say. There is no simple way to deal with it, they say. "There is a need to dispose of material," said Keith Lippert, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral. "We have to free up this warehouse space, and in terms of priorities of all the things that they do at the DLA and the services ... if there are 25 things that have to be done, disposal is probably No. 26," he said, referring to the Defense Logistics Agency, of which he is a former director. Defense News (05/28)
9. White House, Republicans clash on military budget
AIA dailyLead® | May 23, 2012
The Senate is taking up its own defense authorization bill, following the House passage of a Republican-led bill that would add back $4 billion to the proposed defense budget -- and which President Barack Obama has said he would veto. Senate Democrats are more likely to fall in line with the White House's proposal, which would trim spending by almost 5%, this feature says. Bloomberg (05/22)
10. DOD ramps up efforts to keep Chinese counterfeits out of U.S. military
AIA dailyLead® | May 24, 2012
The Department of Defense says it plans to strengthen efforts to keep Chinese-made fake parts from entering its supply chain. The plans for a crackdown came after the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a report saying that 1 million counterfeit parts, mostly from China, had been found in U.S. aircraft. Washington Times, The (05/22)
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