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Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006	F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Gains Qualtech Systems Diagnostics Pratt & Whitney has contracted Qualtech Systems Inc. to provide on-board engine diagnostics for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a new aircraft being developed for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and international air forces.
AskMen.com Kathleen Blanchard	Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Findings from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery revealed that 13% of men age 20 and 69 suffer from noise-induced hearing loss.
AboutSafety June 21, 2001	Value Of A Good Hearing Loss Prevention Program When a company has an effective hearing loss prevention program, everyone wins -- the employers, employees and safety and health professionals who implement the program...
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Aviation Wish-Lists Send Mixed Signals The Navy and Air Force want more planes from Boeing and Lockheed Martin, but doing so would decrease funds from the Joint Strike Fighter program.
National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	In Future Rotorcraft Acquisition, Services Working to Avoid Mistakes of Past Joint Programs The history of joint aircraft is littered with failures, and when programs do come to fruition, they oftentimes are marred by schedule delays and cost overruns. Case in point, critics say, is the uber-expensive F-35 joint strike fighter program.
National Defense December 2015 Stew Magnuson	F-35 Program Ramps Up Training for Pilots, Technicians The F-35 joint strike fighter program is transitioning to a day when its pilots will come fresh out of flight school and the new jet fighter will be their first assignment.
National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	Important Tests Loom for Navy and Marine Corps F-35 The Navy and Marine Corps variants of the joint strike fighter have an eventful year ahead, and program officials are saddled with a long list of work to do before major milestones in the summer.
National Defense August 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Combat Drone Project Exposes Pitfalls of Joint-Service Programs When the Pentagon quashed a multibillion-dollar Air Force-Navy combat drone program earlier this year, experts contended this was proof that joint service projects are doomed from the get-go.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Military Aircraft Funding to Peak This Year, Decline Over Next Decade U.S. military aircraft spending will peak this year at $47 billion, and decline to $41 billion in 2017, predict analysts of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Aviation Force Gets Smaller, But New Aircraft Spending on Course The intent is to replace aging Navy and Marine Corps aircraft with fewer, but more technologically advanced systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Lockheed Martin uses software to manage risk on F-35 project Seeking a software tool to manage business risks for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics chose the Active Risk Manager, a Web-based enterprise risk management system, from U.K.-based Strategic Thought.
National Defense November 2005 Robert H. Williams	Strike Fighter Engine Team Gains Assist The GE Rolls-Royce fighter engine team has selected BAE Systems to produce digital electronic controls for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon's New Jet Fighter Epitomizes Budget Dilemmas Among the Pentagon's largest weapons procurements, and one that is sure to be closely watched is the Joint Strike Fighter.
National Defense June 2004 John Stanton	Navy Aircraft Carrier Designed For Trouble-Free Maintenance Despite growing interest in possibly expanding the number of vertical-takeoff warplanes in the U.S., it's unlikely that they will fly from the deck of the Navy's future aircraft carrier, the CVN-21.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 Courtney E. Howard	The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to be Controlled Via Voice Commands The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will be the first U.S. fighter aircraft to employ a speech-recognition system.
National Defense September 2015 Stew Magnuson	F-35B Declared Combat Ready, but More Development Remains The last day of July was momentous for the Marine Corps as it declared that a squadron of F-35B joint strike fighters was ready for combat.
National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	Eglin Prepares to Open F-35 Training Center Lockheed Martin Corp. is building a high-tech training center at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., which will be used by all F-35 pilots and maintainers.
National Defense November 2013 Dan Parsons	Joint Strike Fighter Total Cost Still Up in the Air The Air Force general in charge of bailing out development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is in agreement with Lockheed Martin that the mistakes of the past are behind them and the first operational jets will be available on time and on budget in 2015.
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	F-35 Program Weighs Impact of Canadian Pullout Canada's anticipated withdrawal from the multinational joint strike fighter program could drive up the cost of the aircraft for U.S. taxpayers, said the officer managing the project.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2004 Brian Gorman	Lockheed's Weight Problem Lockheed Martin will delay takeoff on its Joint Strike Fighter program due to a nagging problem that may leave the defense contractor's investors jittery.
National Defense September 2014 Dan Parsons	F-35 Looks to Move Past Recent Setbacks Recent months have been particularly inauspicious for the most expensive weapon system development program in U.S. history.
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Tactical Aviation's Existential Debate: To Hover or Not to Hover? When it comes to saving prized weapon systems from the budget ax, the Marine Corps has excelled like no other branch of the military.
National Defense December 2007 Breanne Wagner	Digital Designs and Virtual Tests Continue To Be Subject of Debate To speed up deliveries and cut costs, the U.S. military's newest jet fighter will undergo much of its testing in digital simulations.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	CNO: Worries About Aviation Industrial Base Overstated Once the Navy begins buying Lockheed-made F-35s, it will no longer purchase Super Hornets from Boeing.
National Defense September 2004 Robert H. Williams	Walls Can Speak...Inside Planes Flat-panel speaker technology originally developed for the military is finding application in the commercial aircraft industry.
National Defense November 2004	Washington Pulse Civilians Also Need `Joint' Training... Navy Will Push to Keep 12 Aircraft Carriers... What's on the Air Force Chief's Mind... Army Ponders Spending Priorities... etc.
Popular Mechanics July 2003 Paul Eisenstein	World's Most Powerful Loudspeaker Want to hear the story about the world's loudest speaker? Because it is not always practical to launch a space shuttle when you need to create a loud noise -- to study airport sound control, for example -- Wyle Laboratories has developed a more compact solution, the WAS 3000.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Rich Smith	Northrop Grumman: More than Just UAVs Northrop Grumman just landed a $432 million contract to build two new E-2D "Advanced Hawkeye" command and control aircraft for the Navy. And this is just the beginning.
National Defense November 2010 Grace V. Jean	Troops Need Better Hearing Protection Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory are translating their findings into technologies that not only will provide troops with 3-D audio displays but also will preserve their acoustic health.
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel	Multi-Role JSF Simulator Delivered to Air Force Lockheed Martin recently sent the first of a new F-35 simulator to Eglin Air Force Base's 33rd Fighter Wing, which will begin using the system this fall.
Science News April 21, 2007 Janet Raloff	Diet for a Noisy Planet Oral doses of a combination of certain antioxidants and magnesium can significantly limit the risk of noise-induced hearing loss, an animal study finds.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Rebuilding Efforts Anticipate A Lengthy Fight The Marine Corps, as it struggles to rebuild, repair or replace its combat-battered equipment, is planning for a conflict that will continue for years to come.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Lockheed's Plane for All Seasons Lockheed unveils the second version of its Lockheed F-35 Lightning II for the U.S. Marine Corps, but the first deliveries to the military are still at least three years away.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller	The big defense cuts that didn't happen Many of the anticipated big cuts in the Pentagon's 2006 budget request have simply failed to materialize - yet. The U.S. Department of Defense budget request contains solid funding for electronics-rich programs such as the Air Force F/A-22 fighter-bomber, the Joint Strike Fighter, and the Army Future Combat System.
National Defense September 2014 Dan Parsons	Fifth-Generation Fighters Will Determine Air Dominance in Future Conflicts The Raptor is the only combat-ready fifth-generation fighter in the world. Its thrust-vectoring engines, sensor fusion technology and stealth are what define it as a generational leap from previous fighter designs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Popular Mechanics May 2002 Jim Wilson	Flexible Flier The Joint Strike Fighter puts the best of every 20th century warplane into one nimble and stealthy package...
National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	F-35 factory: One aircraft per day by 2016 Inside a manufacturing facility so large that workers routinely bike and ride golf carts down paths named after fighter jets, preparations are underway to begin mass production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Washington Pulse Joint Warfare Has Its Drawbacks... Naval Aviators Told To Tighten Belt... Marines Shifting Non-Combat Jobs to Civilians... Military Training Programs Could See Cutbacks...
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John McHale	Air Force Tests F-35 Fighter Aircraft Avionics; First Combat-Ready Jet to Fly This Summer The Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter Cooperative Avionics Test Bed (CATBird) aircraft has completed a successful demonstration of military avionics systems being developed for the F-35 Lightning II fighter-bomber.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 Ben Ames	Engineers Learn to Blend Technologies in Joint Fighting Platforms To work effectively in joint warfighting, systems must be designed to cooperate from their inception, not patched together after the fact, says Navy Admiral Walter F. Doran, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
National Defense March 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Themes: Investments Leveled, Programs Slipped, Non-Performers Nixed A big portion of the discretionary spending reductions in President Obama's 2013 to 2017 funding request is in the defense budget.
National Defense February 2011 Eric Beidel	Robot Gasses Up Joint Strike Fighter Twice now a robot has successfully refueled a simulated gas tank of an F-35 fighter jet, sparking what may be a radical change in how the military services its aircraft.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance.
National Defense November 2015 Allyson Versprille	Air Force Devoting S&T Funds to Engine Technology In an effort to increase fuel efficiency, the Air Force Research Laboratory is investing significant science and technology funding toward propulsion technology.
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy	Military Steps Up Training For Joint Close-Air Support The U.S. Joint Forces Command is increasing its efforts to ensure that aviators from all military services follow the same procedures when they provide joint close-air support to ground troops during combat.
National Defense November 2013 Valerie Insinna	Company Takes Risk on New Light Strike Plane Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises in September debuted their new Scorpion prototype, a tactical jet aircraft that the companies funded without government dollars.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Threats To Aircraft Carriers Bolster Case for Unmanned Combat Jets The dominance of U.S. aircraft carriers, however, could be one day challenged if future enemies arm themselves with accurate, long-range missiles.
AboutSafety June 11, 2001	Guide To Preventing Hearing Loss Combined exposures to noise and chemicals can cause more hearing loss than exposure to either agent alone. Vibration and extreme heat are also potentially harmful to hearing when combined with noise.
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