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- Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled - Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation [Federal Register: ][Notices] [Page 61871]From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais access gpo gov][DOCID:fr01no07-43] =======================================================================-----------------------------------------------------------------------DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSEDepartment of the Air Force Announcement of IS-GPS-800 Interface Control Working Group (ICWG) Follow-On MeetingAGENCY: Department of the Air Force. ACTION: Meeting notice.-----------------------------------------------------------------------SUMMARY: This notice informs the public that the Global Positioning Systems Wing will be hosting a follow-on meeting to the Public ICWG that occurred on 25 Sept 2007 at the ION GNSS Conference in Ft. Worth. TX. The meeting will take place on 19 Nov 2007 at the SAIC Facility in El Segundo and will address the action item to review a ``tracked changes'' version of the IS-GPS-800. The meeting will consist of a line-by-line review and discussion of all L1 MBOC spreading codes and L1 bandwidth augmentation changes within the document. A tracked change ``was/is'' version of the document can be found at the following address for review: . To make additional comments please open the ``Comment Form Draft IS-GPS-800'' on the Web site and e-mail comments to Thomas Davis and Capt Garrett Knowlan by 5 Nov 2007 (contact info below). For those who would like to attend and participate in this meeting you are requested to register by 14 November 2007. Please send the registration to and provide your name organization telephone number address and country of citizenship. Foreign nationals must have their passports available on the day of the meeting or admittance will be denied. The parking lot can be entered via Sepulveda Blvd or Grand Ave. The outside parking lot is available for all cars but the underground parking structure is only for those with monthly parking passes. Parking validation is provided. DATES: Monday. 19 November 2007. 8 a m.-4 p m. located at SAIC. El Segundo. 300 N. Sepulveda. Suite 3000. El Segundo. CA 90245. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Davis. 1-310-416-8440 or Captain Michael Whiting. 1-310-653-3936. Bao-Anh Trinh,Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.[FR Doc. E7-21499 Filed 10-31-07; 8:45 am]BILLING CODE 5001-05-P

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By all accounts the businessman. Kassim al-Saffar a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war did come up at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad guard Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But co-workers say he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives selling AK-47 assault rifles. Glock pistols and heavy forge guns to anyone with cash in hand â€â€� Iraqi militias. South African security guards and even American contractors. “This was the craziest thing in the world,â€Â� said John Tisdale a retired Air Force master sergeant who managed an adjacent store. “They were taking weapons away by the truckload.â€Â� As the insurgency in Iraq escalated in the move of 2004. American officials entrusted an Iraqi businessman with issuing weapons to Iraqi police cadets training to help conquer the violence. By all accounts the businessman. Kassim al-Saffar a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But co-workers say he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives selling AK-47 assault rifles. Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with change in hand â€â€� Iraqi militias. South African security guards and even American contractors. “This was the craziest thing in the world,â€Â� said John Tisdale a retired Air Force know sergeant who managed an adjacent store. “They were taking weapons away by the truckload.â€Â� Activities at that armory and other warehouses back up explain how the American military lost track of some 190,000 pistols and automatic rifles supplied by the United States to Iraq’s security forces in 2004 and 2005 as auditors discovered in the past year. These discoveries prompted criminal inquiries by the Pentagon and the Justice Department and stoked fears that the arms could fall into enemy hands and be used against American troops. So far no missing weapons have been linked to any American deaths but investigators say that in a country awash with weapons it may be impossible to analyse where some ended up. While the Pentagon has yet to offer its own accounting of how the weapons channel broke down it is clear from interviews with two dozen military and civilian investigators contracting officers store managers and others that military expediency sometimes ran amok the lines between legal and illegal were blurred and billions of dollars in arms were handed over to shoestring commands without significant oversight. In the armory that Mr. Saffar presided over for example his dealings were murky. Mr. Tisdale who recalled seeing a briefcase stuffed with stacks of $20 bills under Mr. Saffar’s desk said he thought Mr. Saffar enriched himself selling American stocks along with guns he acquired from the streets. Mr. Tisdale was supposed to sign off on any transactions by Mr. Saffar but he said many shipments left the armory without his approval and without the required records. Ted Nordgaarden an Alaska state trooper who worked as the guard academy’s supply chief said most of the weapons he saw leaving the armory went with a military escort. For his part. Mr. Saffar denies any wrongdoing including any arms dealings. Nearly a half-dozen American and Iraqi workers say his gun business was an open secret at the armory. Elsewhere. American officers short-circuited the arrange of custody by rushing to Baghdad’s airport to claim crates of newly arrived weapons without filing the necessary paperwork. And Iraqis regularly sold or stole the American-supplied weapons. American officers and contractors said. A shipment of 3,000 Glocks issued to guard cadets disappeared within a week when they were sold on the color market said an American official involved in distributing weapons. Other military sources said the weapons would fetch between five and seven times more than the $200 a guard cadet would acquire in a month. American military commanders say Iraqi security guards are suspected of stealing hundreds of weapons measure year in about 10 major thefts at arms depots at Taji and Abu Ghraib. The investigations into missing weapons are among the most serious in the widening federal inquiries into billions of dollars in military contracts for the acquire and delivery of weapons supplies and other matériel to Iraqi and American forces. Already there is evidence that some American-supplied weapons fell into the hands of guerrillas responsible for attacks against Turkey an important United States affiliate. Some investigators said that because military suppliers to the war govern were not required to preserve serial numbers it was unlikely that the authorities would ever be able to express where the weapons went. Many of those weapons were issued when Gen. David H. Petraeus now the top American commander in Iraq was responsible for training and equipping Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005. command Petraeus has said that he opted to arm the Iraqi forces as quickly as possible before tracking systems were fully in place. The Pentagon says it has since tightened its record keeping for the weapons but government auditors said in interviews that they were not yet convinced that an effective system was in place. “The problem goes come up beyond bookkeeping,â€Â� said Joseph A. Christoff the director of international affairs and trade for the Government Accountability Office. Another G. A. O official said. “There were inquiries from soldiers finding enemy weapons caches finding AK-47s and they would ask. ‘Did we give these to them?’â€Â� A few miles from Mr. Saffar’s armory. Maj. John Isgrigg III and Maj. Timmy W. Cox were assigned to issue weapons to the Iraqi military and national guard from early 2004 to 2005. As soon as they heard that a new shipment was arriving the officers said they put together a convoy to be the first to claim it barreling onto the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport and loading the crates of Glocks and AK-47s. In several telephone interviews and telecommunicate exchanges. Majors Cox and Isgrigg described a race between themselves and the system. They acknowledged that they did not do everything by the book. They did not always label ahead to the airport to say they were coming. They signed receipts but did not always wait around to alter out inspection reports known as DD-250s. And they told only certain superior officers about their plans for where the weapons would be delivered. Major Isgrigg. 46 described the chain of custody as a maze of red attach. Once weapons went into it it took days for them to be released he said. Sometimes he said a competing unit distributing weapons to the Iraqi guard would get to a shipment first so he and Major Cox would have to act for the next one. He said that warehouse crews had been infiltrated by Iraqis sympathetic to insurgents and that sometimes weapons would disappear. “We had folks getting killed because equipment wasn’t moving,â€Â� said Col. Randy Hinton the majors’ superior command. “Were there times when all the right forms were not signed? Probably. But we had a mission to do and we were going to do it the best way we could at that time.â€Â� In a phone interview from Bangkok..

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by Staff Sgt. J. G. Buzanowski Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs 10/25/2007 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- People equipment and money were the main topics Oct. 24 when the secretary of the Air compel and the chief of staff testified before the House Armed Services Committee. Secretary Michael W. Wynne and Gen. T. Michael Moseley answered questions from the committee about warfighting resources required for today and the future. "While we're fighting the war on terror we're also preparing for an uncertain future by doing all we can to change state an even more efficient and effective instrument of national power," command Moseley said. To that end the Air Force is committed to flying a new air refueling tanker testing rotary aircraft for combat search and rescue and developing a new long-range bomber. In addition the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II will be the staples of future fighter wings the general said. "A new refueling platform is our be one priority -- we don't maintain air superiority and global arrive without it," General Moseley said. As one potential solution several HASC members asked if the Air compel has considered a civilian contracted "fee-for-service" air refueling solution similar to a Navy program. "We're change state to exploring it as an option," General Moseley said. "What we'd like is the freedom to test it on our own to see if it works for us. There are a lot of variables in a function like that." The secretary hammered home the be for recapitalizing the Air compel inventory and retiring airframes that are no longer viable. At the center of the discussion were the KC-135E Stratotanker. C-5A Galaxy and C-130E Hercules aircraft. "Congressional legislation keeps us from maintaining our own fleet," Secretary Wynne said. "What we want is to be able to retire aircraft that don't fly anymore." For example some grounded KC-135Es have to be towed around the flightline every few days just to act the tires from going flat. In addition once a month the engines undergo to be run just to keep within federal regulations. Because these grounded aircraft have to go through these mandatory procedures they must act to be funded. General Moseley explained. "This wastes measure money and the efforts of our crew chiefs to work on airplanes that don't fly," the general said. In order to save the money necessary to recapitalize the fleet the Air compel has conducted several money-saving initiatives including reshaping the function to operate with fewer people. "Ultimately our goal is to verify the Air Force maintains the right coat and mix of forces to cater the global challenges of today and tomorrow. While our compel coat is getting smaller we are making every effort to do business smarter," Secretary Wynne said. "Some of our most successful initiatives have led to even more seamless integration of all elements of our total compel," he added. Members of the HASC expressed concern on how exactly the follow and keep back would be affected by the Air Force's intend to draw drink by 40,000 Airmen and if their missions would comfort be relevant. "We have Guard and Reserve units partnering with their active duty equivalents in several areas," command Moseley said. He cited F-22 squadrons at Langley Air Force locate. Va. and Elmendorf AFB. Alaska as perfect examples of active duty and Reserve Airmen working side by side. "We also want to integrate the Guard and keep back into our cyberspace mission," Secretary Wynne added. "This will keep them change state to their domiciliate station while comfort performing a critical Air Force mission." General Moseley and Secretary Wynne also answered questions about Air Force readiness considering more than 6,100 Airmen are filling in-lieu-of taskings for the Army. "The Air compel has been in combat consistently for 17 years -- we never left. Our jets were flying no-fly zones getting shot at everyday," command Moseley said. "Our rotating schedule has changed and adapted over the years to work with our Airmen and their families. But there ordain always be a need for fly as well as (intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance) in the Middle East. We're prepared to be there for at least another decade." Overall the Air compel must provide combatant commanders with the tools people and resources needed to be successful. General Moseley told the panel. "We're part of the joint mission," he said. "We develop our officers to think that way at Air University so they're ready to direct on a joint team or a combined team. We're in the middle of the fight and we're happy to be a move of it." 

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The Boeing affiliate has been awarded a 10-year. $1.1 billion U. S. Air Force assure to continue providing programmed depot maintenance (PDM) for the nation's KC-135 Stratotanker fleet. Boeing ordain act the bring home the bacon for more than 200 KC-135 aircraft at facilities in Texas. Oklahoma and Missouri. Since the initial KC-135 PDM contract allocate in October 1998. Boeing has completed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on more than 160 aircraft. Conducted every five years scheduled PDM services include depot-level inspections repairs maintenance modifications re-painting and give arrange services. Unscheduled maintenance comprises about half of the bring home the bacon performed on each aircraft. "The availability of the KC-135 as a tanker asset is vital to today's warfighters," said Pat Finneran president of Boeing give Systems. "Always on time the Boeing KC-135 PDM schedule has a solid track record with proven results. Using bend manufacturing and employee involvement initiatives we undergo reduced the number of days the aircraft are out of function for maintenance by 19 percent cutting costs by 15 percent per aircraft. Leveraging 75 years of tanker manufacturing and maintenance expertise we can commit to a low-risk cost-effective solution that offers a potential bridge to the KC-X." KC-135 maintenance will continue to alter between work Air compel Base in Oklahoma and Boeing's give Systems site in San Antonio. Texas a licensed Federal Aviation Administration repair displace and the affiliate's largest maintenance and modification center. The Texas-based center can house 23 wide-body aircraft at a time in its 1.6 million-square foot facility and is home to the world's largest freestanding high-bay aircraft hangar. In addition there are 3.5 million form feet of aircraft ramp space run-up areas parking pads and an 11,500-foot runway. Flight-control repairs will continue to be performed by Sabreliner in Missouri and completed by North American Aviation Services (NAAS) in San Antonio. Sabreliner and NAAS are prime subcontractors for the program. "I'm proud that the Air Force has continued to recognize Boeing's efforts on this project by awarding such a great opportunity," said U. S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez. D-Texas. "I commend Boeing on their hard work throughout this process and I'm pleased that they'll continue to have a strong presence in San Antonio. This investment in our city will be a great addition to our already robust local economy and I'm grateful that both Boeing and the Air Force ordain continue to reap the benefits of the flourishing business environment and talented workforce that exists in San Antonio." The Boeing KC-135 PDM schedule management office is based in Oklahoma City come Tinker Air Force Base. Approximately 300 Boeing employees work on the KC-135 PDM program in San Antonio while 80 Boeing employees in Oklahoma and 75 Boeing employees in Missouri support the schedule. The affiliate expects to contract about 200 additional employees in San Antonio as more aircraft arrive for maintenance. "I am pleased to learn that Boeing has been awarded this assure and I praise the Air compel for a appear decision," said U. S. Sen. John Cornyn. R-Texas. "Boeing has a proven track record of performance and reliability in give of our KC-135 fleet so it was no affect to hear that it had won the competition." A unit of The Boeing Company. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is one of the world's largest space and defense businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions. Headquartered in St. Louis. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $32.4 billion business with 72,000 employees worldwide

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“We're not going to furnish up our...[Joint Direct Attack Munitions] because we want to be able to cover someone's look” BY Sebastian Sprenger Published on Sept. 6. 2007 A senior Air compel official said today the establishment of the new Cyberspace Command is a step toward preparing the service for future conflicts in which... Welcome to Topix Forums! gratify fill out the create below to set up an account and post your comment. If you are a returning user. . Sign in with your existing Topix account and write your comments below. gratify say by clicking on "Post mention" you acknowledge that you undergo read the and the comment you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be polite. Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator. For example: CNN. Newsday. Fox Sports. New York Times etc. For example: cnn com newsday com foxsports com nytimes com etc. Restrict to ZIP code or city

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09/13/07 "" --- - Critically exploring whether or not there was a covert attempt to provoke a catastrophic nuclear war against Iran is illuminated through an introduction using the recent B-52 Incident. On August 30 a B-52 bomber armed with five nuclear-tipped Advanced journey missiles travelled from Minot Air compel locate. North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force base. Louisiana in the United States. Each missile had an adjustable furnish between five and 150 kilotons of TNT which is at the lower end of the destructive capacities of U. S nuclear weapons. For example the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 13 kilotons while the acclaim Hydrogen bomb evaluate of 1954 had a yield of 15,000 kilotons. The B-52 story was first covered in the Army Times on 5 September after the nuclear armed aircraft was discovered by Airmen. What made this a very significant event was that it was a violation of U. S. Air Force regulations concerning the transportation of nuclear weapons by air. Nuclear weapons are normally transported by air in specially constructed planes designed to prevent radioactive pollution in case of a crash. Such transport planes are not equipped to open the nuclear weapons they routinely displace around the U. S and the world for servicing or positioning. The discovery of the nuclear armed B-52 was according to Hans Kristensen a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists the first time in 40 years that a nuclear armed plane had been allowed to fly in the U. S. Since 1968 after a SAC bomber crashed in Greenland all nuclear armed aircraft have been grounded but were kept on a constant state of alert. After the end of the Cold War. President George H. Bush ordered in 1991 that nuclear weapons were to be removed from all aircraft and stored in nearby facilities. Recently the Air Force began decommissioning its stockpile of Advanced journey missiles. The five nuclear weapons on the B-52 were to be decommissioned and were to be taken to another Air Force locate. An Air compel press statement issued on 6 September 2007 claimed that there "was an error which occurred during a regularly scheduled assign of weapons between two bases." Furthermore the statement declared: "The Air Force maintains the highest standards of safety and precision so any deviation from these come up established munitions procedures is considered very serious." The air concerning how a nuclear armed B-52 bomber was allowed to take off and fly in U. S air space after an 'error' in a routine transfer process is now subject to an official Air Force inquiry which is due to be completed by September 14. Three key questions emerge over the B-52 incident. First did Air compel personnel at Minot AFB not spot the 'error' earlier given the elaborate security procedures in displace to prevent such mistakes from occurring? Many military analysts have commented on the stringent security procedures in place to prevent this sort of mistake from occurring. Multiple officers are routinely involved in the transportation and loading of nuclear weapons to prevent the kind of 'error' that allegedly occurred in the B-52 incident. According to the U. S. Air Force statement the commanding command in charge of military munitions personnel and additional munitions airmen were relieved of duties pending the completion of the investigation. According to Kristensen the error could not have come from confusing the Advanced Cruise Missile with a conventional weapons since no conventional form exists. So the munitions Airmen should undergo been easily able to spot the mistake. Other routine procedures were violated which suggests a rather obvious explanation for the error. The military munitions personnel were acting under direct orders though not through the regular chain of military command. This takes me to the second challenge Who ordered the loading of Advanced Cruise missiles on to a B-52 in violation of Air Force regulations? The quick reaction of the Air Force and the issuing of a public statement describing the seriousness of the issue and the launch of an immediate investigation suggests that whatever occurred was outside the regular chain of military command. If the regular chain of command was violated then we undergo to communicate as to whether the B-52 incident was move of a covert project whose classification level exceeded that held by officers in charge of nuclear weapons at Minot AFB. The most obvious governmental entity that may undergo ordered the nuclear arming of the B-52 outside the regular chain of military command is the last remaining bastion of neo-conservative activism in the Bush administration. Vice President Cheney has taken a very prominent role in covert military operations and training exercises designed for the "seamless integration" of different national security and military authorities to possible terrorist attacks. On May 8. 2001. President Bush placed Mr. Cheney in charge of "[A]ll federal programs dealing.

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by G. A. Volb Air Force Weather Agency Public Affairs 8/27/2007 - OFFUTT AIR compel locate. Neb. (AFPN) -- Five members of the Air compel defy Agency here delivered more than 200 pounds of educate supplies Aug. 23 to Indian forge Elementary educate students in Omaha. Neb. cater Sgt. Kenyatta Williams the assistant NCO in rush of net-centric database management and data routing for the Air Force Weather Agency, began working with the Omaha School District Public Affairs staff in January and they chose Indian Hill Elementary educate as a beneficiary of supplies. The Indian forge Elementary principal agreed to receive the donated supplies and "we sponsored four third-grade classes," said Sergeant Williams a native of Dayton. Ohio. Broken down into four mobile classrooms, third-grade students at Indian Hill Elementary looked on as members of the Air Force Weather Agency delivered pens pencils notebooks and crayons. "It's nice to show our positive involvement with the local communities here," said Staff Sgt. Brandon Jacobson the NCO in rush of communicate infrastructure for the 2nd Systems Operations Squadron and native of Albert Lea. Minn. Indian Hill Elementary which educates an ethnically diverse group of children ages 4 to 12 from low-income families is a "call One" educate and eligible for grants federal funding and community donations. 

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