FCS- Future Combat System (from 9/11 to the Future) -Updates

FCS- Future Combat System (from 9/11 to the Future) -Updates
-What the "AntiWar"- and "9/11 Truth Movement" doesn't wanna tell you,
including the latest false opposition group of Vancouver
by ewing2001
July 1, 2007


As explained in earlier research columns at 911res, i consider FCS
as the main privatized system hub of StarWars aka MDA aka Trailblazer (aka Haarp aka SDI aka ? etc..),
which combined the logistical use of exoW (incl. dirEN) on the morning of 9/11,
in combination with the conceptional 9/11 TV-, Video- and Media Fakery layers.

[see also http://www.army.mil/fcs/bios.html ]

Here are some 'historical' articles about FCS between 'then and now',
which shows the significance of the 9/11 [media] Cover-Up for an endless war:

Future Combat Systems - Topics 2007
http://www.defense-update.com/topics/topics-fcs.htm

Four Unmanned Systems Removed from FCS, Saving US$3.4 Billion
http://www.defense-update.com/newscast/0207/news/110207_fcs-u.htm

"...the U.S. Army is restructuring and stretching the "Future Combat Systems" (FCS) program, eliminating $3.4 billion from its budget over the next five fiscal years....

...stretching the fielding of the 15 brigades over five years, starting 2015 and eliminating or deferring four systems from the 18 planned, including the Class II and Class III UAVs, the Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV) and Intelligent Munitions System (IMS). Total cost of the restructured program is expected to be $162 billion with another $2 billion slated for additional construction required. The FCS was designed as a “family” of 18 individual systems, plus the network and the soldier -- referred to as 18+1+1. With four of the systems deferred, the system is now 14+1+1...

...remaining systems, such as Honeywell's Class I mini-UAV and Northrop Grumman's Class IV FireScout...
...Companies affected by the decision could be Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE:TXT), the prime contractof for the IMS program, and BAE Systems, which was involved with the ARV. However, both companies are heavily engaged with other elements of the FCS program. For example, Textron Systems is also pursueing the FCS-UGS system which should receive more focused resulting from the elimination of IMS....

June 9 2007
Heavenly visions [GCP]
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7eec9842-1625-11dc-a7ce-000b5df10621,_i_rssPage=df217c24-3011-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html
By Akiko Busch

"...The beautiful thing about any new technology is the way it can be put to unexpected uses...
...And so it is with satellite maps. Since the first weather satellite, Tiros 1, delivered pictures of clouds from outer space in 1960, these maps have been used for everything from scientific research to military surveillance, communications to navigation...
...Geospatial content providers, as they are now called, offer us seemingly limitless archives of information. ..


22-May-2007
“Fighting Folly” - a new 'division' within DEW/FCS Supporters?
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/americas_usa/index.php?offset=1490
Future Combat Systems in the Crosshairs

"....May may be murder for the US Army’s $160+ billion Future Combat Systems program...
...bipartisan recommendations from the House Armed Services Committee propose a nearly $900 million budget cut in FY 2008, and have the US Army arguing that the future of the program is in danger...

http://www.governmentexecutive.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/features/0507-01/0507-01s3.htm
Fighting Folly
By Greg Grant ggrant@govexec.com Government Executive May 1, 2007

"...Future Combat Systems, an ultramodern suite of armored vehicles, robots and aerial drones connected via a sophisticated battle command network. The program, for which cost estimates range from $164 billion to more than $230 billion, aims to transform the Army into a lighter, more agile force...

...Years before the Army embarked on FCS, independent analysis funded by the Army showed that those concepts were deeply flawed. What's more, the Army's own experience of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan further debunks concepts central to FCS.

The Army has so far spent $8 billion and is a third of the way through the development part of FCS, with full production scheduled for 2013. How is it progressing? That depends on whom you ask. According to the Army and Boeing, the program is "on cost and on schedule," as Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing's general manager for FCS, said in a conference with reporters last summer. But an assessment of cost growth and the findings of a yearlong Government Accountability Office audit suggest FCS is a costly mess.

The Army's original price tag back in 2003 was $92 billion. Since then, the Army has restructured the program twice and now estimates development and production will cost $163.7 billion, a 76 percent increase...

...Software needed to control FCS has doubled from initial estimates to a staggering 63 million lines of code, three times the amount being written for the Joint Strike Fighter..."

[ed: The 'lines of code' screwed up once already.
The day of 9/11 presented us a flawed cartoon by WABC7 and FOX11 ;

WarCriminals like 911truth.org and the DRG/PJones clan instead look into the other direction and misled 100.000s followers if not millions worlwide, sacrifying the U.S. into a WW scenario and bancruptcy against Russia and China.]

Mar. 9, 2007
http://www.defense-update.com/newscast/0307/news/090307_ics.htm
The first Integrated Computer Systems (ICS) were delivered last week to the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program...
...The ICS team include General Dynamics C4 and Rockwell Collins.
The ICS was developed in just 21 months to support the rapid spin-out of FCS capability into existing vehicles...

Feb 12, 2007
http://www.defense-update.com/newscast/0207/news/110207_fcs-test.htm
Earlier this month (February 2007) the U.S. Army reached an important milestone in the Future Combat Systems' program, completing the first live-fire exercise, Experiment 1.1

15-May-2006
JIN Stays in the Lamp
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/jin-stays-in-the-lamp-02256/#more-2256
09-May-2006
DRS & Ionatron to Cooperate on Energy Weapons
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2006/05/drs-ionatron-to-cooperate-on-energy-weapons/index.php

December 15, 2005
FCS Contractors Step Up Advocacy Campaign
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,82917,00.html

"...Defense contractors in charge of developing the Army's Future Combat System want subcontractors...
Boeing and SAIC want to educate the entire team about the political and budgetary issues that surround FCS' development ...

June 2005
FCS Program Rolls Forward in Formation
http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/home/article.php?id=100346&pg=3
http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/home/article.php?id=100346&pg=4
A wireless data network, with advanced communications and technologies, links soldiers with 18 new, lightweight manned and unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned aircraft, sensors and weapons—and it’s all in one program...

Figure 4

Shown here is the schedule for “Spinning Out” technologies. Starting in 2006 there’s a decision point to decide which things will be spun out in Spin Out 1. Likely candidates are the unattended ground sensors and the Intelligent Munitions Systems.

...Several homogenous communication systems make up the FCS communication network. These include Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Clusters 1 and 5 with Wideband Network Waveform (WNW) and Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW), Network Data Link and Warfighter Information Network–Tactical (WIN-T)...

...In 2008 (in the outer band) the Army is going to stand up an experimental brigade combat team...

...Going around the spiral chart, prototypes of all the families of vehicles will be tested and come out around Spin Out 3 and Spin Out 4. On the inner rings there are limited user tests for the main program and then production decisions and initial operational capability scheduled for 2014/2015...

...Unlike traditional programs, FCS is managed by a Lead Systems Integrator (LSI) team. Comprised of Boeing and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), the team integrates other companies’ products and helps the Army manage the program....

May 13, 2005
Bob Bowman's 'former company': General Dynamics and ANS

General Dynamics Awarded US$51 Million Contract
http://www.utdallas.edu/research/friday_fyi/050513/corp_news.html
Volume 5, Issue 13

General Dynamics Robotic Systems has been awarded a US$50.7 million modification to its $186 million U.S. Army Future Combat Systems Autonomous Navigation System base contract from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). SAIC and Boeing (NYSE: BA) constitute the FCS Lead Systems Integrator team. Total value of the contract is now approx. $237 million...

...The initial contract for development of the Autonomous Navigation System (ANS) for ground vehicles was awarded in December 2003. With this modification, the period of performance for the ANS program has been extended from September 2009 to March 2013...

http://www.rmbowman.com/ssn/bio2001.htm
"...Until July, 1982, he was a Vice President of Space Communications Company. Before that, Dr. Bowman was Manager, Advanced Space Programs at General Dynamics, responsible for the communications spacecraft product line. Culminating a 22-year Air Force career in 1978, Col. Bowman was Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the Air Force Space Division...."

Feb. 17, 2005
Army to pick FCS system in 2006
http://www.fcw.com/article88040-02-16-05-Web
"...Officials in the Army and the industry team of Boeing and Science Applications International Corp. began studying the issue about a year ago. They will complete the trade analysis in the middle of 2006, said Dennis Muilenberg, vice president and general manager and FCS program manager in Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems business unit. The Boeing/SAIC team helps manage the multibillion-dollar program as lead systems integrator...."

May 2004
Army Future Combat Systems Face High Risk of Failure, Cautions Study
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2004/May/Army_Future.htm
"...The Army began system development and demonstration in May 2003 and plans to make an FCS production decision in 2008..."

April 5, 2004
FCS Watch
REPORT: ARMY "FUTURE COMBAT" IN PERIL, GENERALS KNEW ALL ALONG
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/000851.html
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/04/62931
"...It's been called the most ambitious military effort since the Manhattan Project, and the centerpiece of Donald Rumsfeld's plans to overhaul America's armed forces:
...a new congressional report is alleging that the "Future Combat Systems" program is poised for major delays and a financial train wreck. Worst of all, the report claims, the Army knew this was going to happen all along....

6 Nov 2003
Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited TACOM
http://www.army.mil/howwewillfight/references/14%20040428_2004flipbook.pdf
Program Managers for Future Combat Systems:
BG Don Schenk, PM Future Combat Systems
COL Bill Johnson, PM FCS Technologies
Dennis A. Muilenburg, PM LSI Office

Mar 01, '03
U.S. Army's Future Combat System Will Run Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/0216215&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=163
"...In 2001 Boeing was chosen to be the lead system integrator for the Army's Future Combat System.
...while Boeing's official FCS site doesn't have a lot of technical details, but you can find some good information at Global Security...
... a little known fact is that the OS for FCS will be Linux (FAQ 4 here.)"
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/fcs/bia/faq_c4isr_conf.html

Conference 11/13/02
Future Combat Systems - Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/fcs/bia/faq_c4isr_conf.html
"...Do you plan to have any special considerations for foreign companies to participate in FCS?
...To date we have several international vendors participating on the FCS program...

March 07, 2002
SEAL BEACH, Calif.,
Boeing-SAIC Team Selected for U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems Program
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/q1/nr_020307s.html
Today's announcement selecting The Boeing Company [NYSE:BA] - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) team as the Lead System Integrator (LSI) for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) places it in a unique partnership role with government on a program that is key to the Army's transformation goals...
..."FCS represents a new, accelerated approach to acquiring systems-of-systems capabilities," said Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Space and Communications...

December 18, 2001
ARMY ANNOUNCES HEADQUARTERS TRANSFORMATION PLAN
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=3192

September 25, 2001
Robotic Follower
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/follower.htm
The Robotic Follower Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) is focused on the maturation & demonstration of robotics technology required for early insertion into Future Combat Systems (FCS)...
...The lead system maneuvers over a tactically significant route and passes electronic breadcrumbs, e.g., Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) positions, to the following systems...
...On September 25, 2001 General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Mich., was awarded a $500,000 increment as part of a $23,051,717 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for four years of research and development of a Vetronics Technology Integration effort....
...This remarkable feat, six months in the making, successfully illustrated that it is possible to field unmanned vehicles that are capable of performing multiple tasks for the Future Combat System....

9/11

?

18-20 June 2001
Future Combat Systems
Authors: Josef Schroeder; DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON DC
Abstract: Presentation given at the Armaments for the Army Transformation Conference, 18-20 June 2001, sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association...

30 APR 2001
Army Transformation Conference held 20 June 2001
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA399769
http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA399769
Framework for the Analysis of the Future Combat System
[ed: the real 'pnac quote']

"...The United States Army is frenetically engaged in an ambitious initiative to transform itself from a Cold War legacy force into a new millennium force, the Objective Force, designed to dominate potential enemies through the first half of the new century. The centerpiece of this transformed Army will be the Future Combat System (FCS)...

[ed: see also 13)-20) Terror Drills during June 2001
incl. "UA 1230 terror drill", Westmore County Drill area around Shanksville,
Amalgam Virgo 01, "Operation Amber Sky" Dayton Airport, Dark Winter/June 22-23 and others
http://www.team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?6.16 ]

On May 9, 2000 DARPA and the Army selected four contractor teams for the first phase of the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program.
Future Combat Systems - Phase 1
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fcs-1.htm

The selected contractor team leads and agreement amounts were:

* The Boeing Co., Phantom Works, Seattle, Wash. - Agreement amount (cost-shared with company): $23,299,998. Government share: $10,000,000.
* Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va. - Agreement amount (cost-shared with company): $12,830,470. Government share: $10,000,000.
* TEAM FoCuS Vision CONSORTIUM, led by General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Mich., and Raytheon Company, Plano, Texas - Agreement amount (cost-shared with consortium): $14,000,000. Government share: $10,000,000.
* Team Gladiator (TRW Inc., Carson, Calif.; Lockheed Martin Inc., Lockheed Martin Vought Systems, Dallas, Texas; CSC/Nichols Research, Huntsville, Ala.; Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn.; Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio; IITRI/AB Tech Group, Alexandria, Va.) - Agreement amount (cost-shared with consortium): $15,461,499. Government share: $10,000,000.

The system of systems capability is to be demonstrated by FY 2006 through a series of demonstrations in conjunction with modeling and simulation...

March 28, 2000
Future Combat Systems
11th Annual US Army
Ground Vehicle Survivability Symposium
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/11ground/vanfosson.pdf
Marion H. Van Fosson, LTC, USA
PM Future Combat Systems
mvanfosson@darpa.mil

Agreements Officer Ms. Swatloski
rswatloski@darpa.mil
TRADOC
COL Page
paget@monroe.army.mil
DPM
Mr. Marrero
marrerop@tacom.army.mil
DCSOPS
MAJ Brown
Tyrone.Brown@HQDA.Army.Mil
...

FCS Survivability
Don’t be Detected

Challenges
Electromagnetic and thermal signature management

Typical Enabling Technologies
– Signal jamming
– Decoys and deception

The early FCS contractors

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fcs-back.htm
United Defense Limited Partnership, San Jose, CA; Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, Nashua, NH; TRW, Redondo Beach, CA; Hughes Danbury, Danbury, CN; General Dynamics Land Systems, Warren, MI; Chang Industries, Salt Lake City, UT & Laverne, CA; New Mexico Tech, Socorro , NM; IST, Goleta, CA, Aerojet, Azusa, CA.

1999

https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=30348&lang=en-US
"...The FCS, which represents the most advanced component of the Objective Force, was first created as a program in 1999 and is expected to field its first system to troops in 2012..."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SVI/is_4_12/ai_n16128490
"...On October 12, 1999, the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Eric Shinseki, delivered the keynote address at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual symposium in Washington, D.C. In this momentous speech, he shared his vision for transforming the Army...
...the objective force (Shinseki, 1999)...
...A short time later, the Chief of Staff gave the Army its mission: build and field the first Unit of Action, equipped with Future Combat Systems (FCS), capable of full spectrum operations, by the end of 2010....
[ed: Eric Shinseki served as the 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1999 - 2003)]

January-February 1998
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/1fcs98.pdf
The Future Combat System (FCS): PART THREE: POWERING THE NEW SYSTEM by Asher H. Sharoni and Lawrence D. Bacon ARMOR

July-August 1997
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/4fcs97.pdf
The Future Combat System (FCS) - A Technology Evolution Review and Feasibility Assessment
by Asher H. Sharoni and Lawrence D. Bacon ARMOR —

1997
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/1997/4fcs97.pdf
"...the conclusion that the 2020-2030 future battlefield environment’s operational requirements could only be met — on equal terms — by the FCS...."

you neglect to mention: THE

Submitted by u2r2h on Thu, 2007-07-05 15:21.

you neglect to mention:

THE *USSR* HAD SPACE WEAPONS!!

http://u2r2h-documents.blogspot.com/2007/01/estonia-particle-weapon-poofed-wtc.html
Very difficult to find anything on it.. but you should try.
My working hypothesis is that a russian satellite was hijacked.

--
http://u2r2h.blogspot.com/
http://u2r2h-documents.blogspot.com

FCS 2000 Contractors -the final 9/11 teams and time table?

Submitted by ewing2001 on Tue, 2007-07-03 01:44.

FCS 2000 Contractors -the final 9/11 teams?

http://www.arpa.mil/sto/solicitations/files/fcs_prog_overview.ppt
http://www.darpa.mil/DARPATech2000/Presentations/tto_pdf/3VanFossonFCSB&W.pdf
Future Combat Systems
DARPATech 2000

o The Boeing Team
* The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
* New Definitions, Inc., Tacoma, WA
* Vector Research, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
[ed: May 21, 2001
ERIM Acquires Vector Research, Inc.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/769671

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Research_Institute_of_Michigan
"...ERIM International was sold to Veridian Corp. of Washington, D.C. in 1999, which was later bought by General Dynamics in 2003...
...ERIM played key-roles in the development and implementation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR)... ]

* Whitney, Bradley & Brown, Inc., Vienna, VA
* Signature Research, Inc., Calumet, MI
* National Institute of Standards and Technology

(NIST), Gaithersburg, MD

* Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA
* Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Germany

o Team Gladiator (Consortium)
* TRW
* Lockheed Martin
* CSC/Nichols Research
* Battelle Institute
* Carnegie Mellon
* IITRI/AB Technologies

o Team FoCus Vision (Consortium)
* Team FoCuS Vision led by General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan and Raytheon Company, Plano, Texas.

Other participants with GDLS and Raytheon include:

* Aurora Flight Sciences
* Carnegie-Mellon University
* Honeywell
* Maxwell Physics International
* Stanford Research Institute International
* Sensis
* Sensor.com Wireless Integrated Network Sensors
* Whitney Bradley & Brown Inc.
* Los Alamos National Laboratory

o Team Full Spectrum
* SAIC
* United Defense, LP
* ITT Industries
* Northrop Grumman Corp
* Logistics Management Institute (LMI)
* SRI International
* Strategic Perspectives Inc.
* Omnitech Robotics International LLS
* University of Texas Center for Electromechanics
* VRI

"...Structured to support the vision of the Objective Force...
Program is structured to meet 2012 FUE..."
http://www.darpa.mil/DARPATech2000/Presentations/tto_pdf/3VanFossonFCSB&W.pdf

FCS Programmer Van Fosson
- the admin for the 9/11 TV Fakery Glitches?

http://www.amso.army.mil/smart/conf/2001/18-apr/van-fosson.htm

FCS Program Overview
LTC Marion H. Van Fosson [mvanfosson@darpa.mil]
FCS Program Manager

".. The FCS will be the prototypical program for future Army systems and acquisition strategies. Accordingly, it will be a program that uses the tenets of Simulation Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements and Training (SMART) to achieve its objectives..."

http://www.amso.army.mil/structure/amsec/nov-00/fcs.ppt
Future Combat Systems
Brief to the AMSEC
6 November 2000, 1500-1700
Marion H. Van Fosson, LTC, USA
...

FBCB2

related software system:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/fbcb2.htm

# FBCB2 software—architecturally compliant with the DII COE.
# Position navigation and reporting capability (e.g., Global Positioning System (GPS) or an embedded position-navigation (POSNAV) capability).
# An interface to a terrestrial communication system (e.g., SINCGARS and/or Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS) radio) or to a satellite communications system for operations over long distances or rugged terrain.

Yet another new Codename for 9/11:
"The Objective Force"

http://www.amso.army.mil/smart/conf/2001/18-apr/van-fosson.htm
2001/18-april
"...The FCS will enable the Objective Force to perform a wide range of military activities and operations..."

[see also above

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SVI/is_4_12/ai_n16128490
"...On October 12, 1999, the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Eric Shinseki, delivered the keynote address at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual symposium in Washington, D.C. In this momentous speech, he shared his vision for transforming the Army...
...the objective force (Shinseki, 1999)... ]

"War on Terror" is FCS
What the DoD knew already in 2000:
There was $ for FCS and there *was a timetable...

How the left wing, the anti-war movement and the right wing
are selling out for private military contractors who outsource their money into the middle-east and mid-asia

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2000/Sep/Twenty-Ton.htm
September 2000

Twenty-Ton Combat Vehicle Slated for 2012

"...The Army lieutenant colonel in charge of the new combat vehicle program, Marion H. Van Fosson, said he might be retired already from the Army by that time...

..In 2003, the chief, the secretary of the Army and the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will review the contractors' proposals and decide whether to select one or more concepts and build a prototype, or "technology demonstrator," said Van Fosson. DARPA is a partner and co-investor in the program, called the Future Combat System, or FCS. The goal is to have a new vehicle delivered to Army units by 2012.

The FCS will be the platform for what the Army calls the "objective force," explained Maj. Gen. Daniel R. Zanini, Army deputy chief of staff for combat developments...

**********exoW integrated into FCS**********

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2000/Sep/Twenty-Ton.htm
September 2000

"..Randy Buff, a scientist at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, said his office is considering the use of high-energy laser weapons for FCS..."

**********9/11: DirEN, deps.org and Randy Buff**********

http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/DEsymp01.html
Fourth Annual Directed Energy Symposium
29 October - 1 November 2001

...

Tuesday, 30 October 2001
0800 - 1715 Session 1: Directed Energy Vision
Chair: Dr Randy Buff, USASMDC

...

Industry Perspective Panel
Moderator: Mr. Bill Elliott, Vice President, Directed Energy & Optical Systems, MEVATEC Corp.

* Dr. Thomas Romesser, Vice President & General Manager, Space & Technology Division, TRW Space & Electronics
* Mr. Tom McDonald, Vice President, Laser & Electro Optical Systems, Space & Communications Group, The Boeing Co.
* Mr. Samuel Williams, Chief Scientist, Space Based Laser Programs, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space
* Mr. Mike Booen, Vice President of Directed Energy Weapons, Product Line of Missile Systems, Raytheon Corp.

...

# Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) Program
Mr. Gerald Wilson, Program Manager, MTHEL, USASMDC
# Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHCL)
Dr. Randy Buff, Program Manager SSHCL, USASMDC
# Airborne Laser (ABL) Program
Col Ellen Pawlikowski, Director, ABL SPO
# Space Based Laser (SBL) Program
Col Ivette Falto-Heck, Director, SBL SPO

.....

Randy Buff, 2002
Reconfirmation DirEN Use at FCS:
http://www.llnl.gov/str/JanFeb02/NewsJanFeb02.html
January/February 2002
The Laboratory in the News

"...The SSHCL has the potential to be the first high-energy laser that is light and compact enough to be integrated as a direct-fire element of the Army’s future combat system, according to Randy Buff, SMDC solid-state laser program manager...


...In mid-December, program engineers at the Army’s High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico successfully test-fired a new 10-kilowatt solid-state heat-capacity laser (SSHCL). During the 6-second test, the laser burned a hole through quarter-size samples of steel...
Developed at Lawrence Livermore, the SSHCL...



(Photos: The SSHCL can penetrate a 2.5-centimeter-thick piece of steel in 2 to 7 seconds)

SSHCL 'Holes' for 9/11?

http://www.llnl.gov/str/April06/Soules.html
http://www.gyre.org/news/source/BBC+News/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6380789.stm


exoW specifics for 9/11:

http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/DEsymp01.html

"Lasers and Laser Optics" Dr. Robert Hengehold (AFIT)
"Beam Control System Design" Dr. Charles Albers (MEVATEC Corporation)
"High Power Laser Beam Control Progress.." Dr. Kenneth W. Billman (LMSC) and Airborne Laser SPO Staff
"NASA Advanced Optics Technologies" Dr. Scott Smith (NASA/MSFC)
"HP Microwave Systems" Dr. Bill Bailey and Dr. David Weeks (AFIT)
Laser Lethality Analysis" Dr. Chuck Lamar and Others (USASMDC)

SAIC and FCS

[see also
"SAIC- power structure 9/11 and more"
http://www.team8plus.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?1664.post
Nov 05 2005 ]

http://www.ausa.org/webpub/DeptHome.nsf/byid/JSUR-6PWJTR
"..Lt. Gen. Daniel R. Zanini, USA, Ret., the FCS program manager for Science Applications International Corporation,...

...By the third quarter of 2007, a brigade combat team will be established at Fort Bliss, Texas, to evaluate FCS elements...

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703?printable=true&currentPage=all
Washington's $8 Billion Shadow
March 2007

"..One of the biggest contracts ever for SAIC is in the works right now. It's for a Pentagon program called Future Combat Systems, which is described as "a complex plan to turn the U.S. Army into a lighter, more lethal, more mobile force" and also as "the most difficult integration program ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Defense."

The contract runs into the billions of dollars. The man who helped craft this program at the Pentagon was Lieutenant General Daniel R. Zanini. Zanini recently retired from the army, and he now has a new job. Can you guess where it might be?.."

(Photo: Jane Zanini, Estella Palacios, and Sandy Schwartz, left to right, the wives of three of the highest-ranking U.S. military officials in South Korea..)

http://www.ausa.org/webpub/DeptHome.nsf/byid/KCAT-6KRLYR
FCS Needed Now in War on Terrorism
01/05/2006

The Future Combat Systems (FCS) network was originally planned for integration beginning at the end of the decade, but the Army realized FCS was something that was needed as soon as possible, Lt. Gen. Daniel R. Zanini, USA, Ret, said...
...SAIC is teamed with Boeing as the lead system integrator for FCS...

Pre "9/11 TV" and Post(?)-9/11 Actors

Fake News Shuffle


Fake News Shuffle - 911 Octopus More Music and More Explanation

http://www.livevideo.com/bsregistration

############################
[speculative addendum]

9/11 FCS Passengers?

John D. Yamnicky Sr. 71 Veridian Corp. Waldorf MD United States AA Flight 77

Vicki C. Yancey 43 Vredenburg Co. Springfield VA United States AA Flight 77

Peter el-Hachem 40 Teradyne
AA Flight 11

Charles S. Falkenberg 45 ECOlogic Corp. [GPS Codes, data systems for NASA] University Park MD United States AA Flight 77

Bryan C. Jack 48 Defense Department Alexandria VA United States AA Flight 77

Chandler R. Keller 29 Boeing Co. El Segundo CA United States AA Flight 77

Kenneth E. Waldie 46 Raytheon Co. Methuen MA United States AA Flight 11

Leonard E. Taylor 44 XonTech Inc. Reston VA United States AA Flight 77
Los Angeles - Jul 25, 2003 - Northrop Grumman said Thursday that it had completed its acquisition of XonTech...

Hammond Jr., Carl Max - 37 - Derry , NH - On United Flt. 175
MITRE, LosAlamos

Homer, Herbert Wilson - 48 - Milford , MA - On United Flt. 175
Raytheon Burlington, Vt.

Sweeney, Brian David - 38 - Barnstable , MA - On United Flt. 175
ex-Lockheed Martin Corp., Spectratek Corp. and Horizons Technology

Gay, Peter Alan - 54 - Tewksbury , MA - On American Flt. 11
Raytheon

Ruben Ornedo, 39, of Los Angeles, California Flt.77 Boeing propulsion

Kovalcin, David P. - 42 - Hudson , NH - On American Flt. 11
Raytheon

Jones, Charles Edward - 48 - Bedford , MA - On American Flt. 11
BAE Systems, MIT

Lasden, Natalie Janis - 46 - Peabody , MA - On American Flt. 11 General Electrics

Lewin, Daniel C. - 31 - Charlestown , MA - On American Flt. 11 MIT, Akamai Technologies Inc., iPv6

Waldie, Kenneth E. - 46 - Methuen , MA - On American Flt. 11
Raytheon

etc... etc...

"9/11 Actors" aboard [plus wardrobe and camera crew]?

Pecorelli, Thomas Nicholas - 30 - Topanga , CA - On American Flt. 11
*media* cameraman for Fox Sports and E! Entertainment Television

Perkins, Berinthia "Berry" Berenson - 53 - Los Angeles , CA - On American Flt. 11
Actress and photographer

Lee, Daniel John - 34 - Van Nuys , CA - On American Flt. 11
The roadie for the Backstreet Boys, Yanni, 'N Sync and Barbra Streisand

Puopolo, Sonia Morales - 58 - Dover , MA - On American Flt. 11
Retired ballet dancer
Leading political activist

Weems, William Michael - 46 - Marblehead , MA - On United Flt. 175
A freelance producer of TV commercials, colleague of Michael Moore ("Bill Weems Annual Blood Drive")
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=808

Bailey, Garnet Edward "Ace" - 54 - Lynnfield , MA - On United Flt. 175 NHL Hockey Player

Bavis , Mark Lawrence - 31 - West Newton , MA - On United Flt. 175
NHL, Rangers

Angell, David Lawrence - 54 - Pasadena , CA - On American Flt. 11
executive producer of the hit NBC sitcom "Frasier"

Beug, Carolyn - 48 - Santa Monica , CA - On American Flt. 11
filmmaker and video producer [award for the Van Halen video "Right Now"]

Humber Jr., John Nicholas - 60 - Newton , MA - On American Flt. 11
adviser to the World Bank

Barbara Olson "AA77" CNN

Ronald Gamboa, 33, of Los Angeles, California, Flt.175 Gap store manager

William Joseph Cashman, Karate Specialist, Flt.93

TJX Companies parent of T.J. Maxx and Marshall
Seven employees on American Airlines Flight 11

plus many other sales manager and consulting CEOs...

Who played the hijackers on "non-existing flight"?

Iskandar, Waleed Joseph - 34 - London, England , Outside US - On American Flt. 11 (WTC North) *TJX*
Lewin, Daniel C. - 31 - Charlestown , MA - On American Flt. 11
Peter el-Hachem 40 Teradyne Tewksbury MA United States AA Flight 11
Rahma Salie

Who are most active "9/11 Flight Victims"?

Natalee Pecorelli, sister of Thomas Pecorelli (cameraman)of Flight 11
Laurel A. Gay , sister of Peter A. Gay (raytheon), AA Flight 11
David Yancey, husband of Vicki Yancey (Veridian Corp.), American Airlines Flight 77

connected with http://www.911independentcommission.org/members.html
and
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633
9/11 Truth Statement 2004

What is the 'role' of Ellen Mariani?
Is she a no-planer or planehugger?
Her husband died officially in a Cartoon CGI,
shown on WABC7, vanishing behind the South Tower...

Bonus

iPhone pres: 9/11 Purdue Improved (feat. Gary Welz' Terror Team)[911blogger/white/videogoogle/bootleg]

see also
'9/11 Actor' Gary Welz was sponsored by Institute linked to Top DirEN associate
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ewing2001?id=3664
http://www.911researchers.com/node/644#comment-4871

Sheila E. Widnall

 

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FCS At Wired

Submitted by NXNGRG on Tue, 2007-07-10 18:25.

24 Hours Left: Guess Which Country the "Future" Army Invades
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/07/24-hours-left-t.html

Thanks to the 3300 4000 + people who 1. dared to guess which country gets invaded, as a way to model the Army's Future Combat Systems. For the rest of you: Go vote now! And for the "4 journalists, 4 think-tankers, 3 1st LTs in the Army and 12 friends still in school" who've pumped the Robot Economist for info... well, you're gonna have to wait, just like everyone else.
The right answer gets revealed tomorrow at 3PM Eastern / 12PM Pacific.
In the meantime, I'll offer up one itty-bitty clue...
While the Army's "Future" forces are designed to conduct "full spectrum military operations
including deterrence, homeland security, stability operations, support operations, [and] SSCs [small-scale contingencies] to restore peace and stability," according to one document, they are "optimized for the offense in major combat operations."

Colonel Marion Van Fosson +

Submitted by ewing2001 on Tue, 2007-07-03 08:52.

Colonel Marion Van Fosson + FCS Team, Quotes

http://web-ext2.darpa.mil/DARPATech2000/Speeches/TTOSpeeches/TTOFutureCombat(Van%20Fosson).doc
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:_StQ8lkjHqIJ:www.dtic.mil/ndia/2001armaments/schroeder.pdf+Team+Gladiator+fcs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us
2000

"...all elements must fit within the crucible of a C130J airplane. ...

Future Combat Systems
COL Josef Schroeder
Chief of Staff
Objective Force Task Force

http://web-ext2.darpa.mil/DARPATech2000/Speeches/TTOSpeeches/TTOFutureCombat(Van%20Fosson).doc
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:LmttV5sNu_oJ:web-ext2.darpa.mil/DARPATech2000/Speeches/TTOSpeeches/TTOFutureCombat(Van%2520Fosson).doc+Team+Gladiator+fcs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us

"...Good afternoon, my name is Lieutenant Colonel Marion Van Fosson. I am the Program Manager for Future Combat Systems.

To get to the Objective Force in 2012, we will heavily leverage many DARPA technologies currently under development.

These will include programs like the Combat Hybrid Electric Power Systems program, which will allow us to develop a combat system with a silent running mode; the Advanced Fire Support Systems Program - now called NetFires - I will talk more about this program in just a few moments; the Small Unit Operations Program, which allows us to conceive of a hierarchical network structure capable of bandwidths of 4 megabits per second and assured communication; and there are many other DARPA technologies that we will also be leveraging, that I don't have time to discuss further today.

We will make use of some jointly developed DARPA/Army technologies that are being started in 2001..."

http://www.ndu.edu/inss/DefHor/DH13/DH13.htm
Future Combat Systems
May 2002

"...The importance of the FCS to the Objective Force is underscored by the Army's increased investment in science and technology to accelerate FCS development. In February 2000, the Army signed an unprecedented $916 million memorandum of agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for fiscal years 2001-2005...

...In May 2000, DARPA and the Army selected four teams for the initial FCS conceptual design phase: Boeing Phantom Works, Team Full Spectrum (SAIC), Team Gladiator (TRW, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, CSC/Nichols Research, Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, Battelle Memorial Institute), and Team Focus Vision Consortium (Raytheon and General Dynamics Land Systems). Each team was to deliver a single design by 2003...

...The timetable for future decisions and milestones calls for a decision on low-rate initial production in fiscal year (FY) 2007 and full-rate production in FY08 or FY09...

... FCS is required to transmit images and data from multiple sensors, which only exacerbates the bandwidth problem...

...Robotics is a keystone technology for the FCS...

FCS 2000 Teams -References, Team1

Submitted by ewing2001 on Tue, 2007-07-03 11:39.

FCS 2000 Teams -References

1) The Boeing Team

The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/fcs/bia/briefings.html
Modeling and Simulation Conference 1/30/03 - Attendees
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/fcs/bia/030130_modsim_attendees.html
Lead Systems Integrator for the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program
http://www.boeing.com/ids/combat_systems/index.html

New Definitions, Inc., Tacoma, WA
New Definitions Inc
253-565-1203
1000 Station Dr
Dupont WA 98327
[website not located yet]

Vector Research, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/769671
"...May 21, 2001
ERIM Acquires Vector Research, Inc.
The Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) is acquiring Vector Research Incorporated (VRI).."

http://www.erim.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.erim.org/
"..technology roadmaps, applied research and development.."

Whitney, Bradley & Brown, Inc., Vienna, VA
http://www.wbbinc.com/bio-doug-connell.html
Doug Connell
Network Centric Warfare products
http://www.wbbinc.com/bio-donald-bouchoux.html
Donald R. Bouchoux, Senior Vice President
"...was a Senior Principal Engineer with The MITRE Corporation..."



Signature Research, Inc., Calumet, MI
http://www.signatureresearchinc.com/contactus/calumet.html
"...specializing in signature modeling and analysis, operations analysis, image and signal processing and software development..incorporated as a Small Business (13CFR121) in Michigan in 1992..."

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Gaithersburg, MD
http://www.mel.nist.gov/wnew/hilights/2002/hlmarch02.htm
March 2002

"...DARPA, ARMY Future Combat Systems Lead System Integrator Specifies...
Contact: Maris Jubert, ext. 3422
Contact: Jack Stone ext. 5638

http://www.mel.nist.gov/

http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/
1/25/2001
DOD Unmanned Ground Vehicles:

* ARL Support and NIST Vehicle Testbed
* Future Combat Systems

NIST is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration
http://www.ta.doc.gov/

http://www.technology.gov/Leadership.htm
Michael Rubin, Chief Counsel for the Technology Administration, Counsel for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Counsel for the National Technical Information Service

William Jeffrey, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"...Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Jeffrey was the assistant deputy for technology at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, where he supervised sensor development for the Predator and Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles..."

http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/highlights/2002.htm
FCS/March 2002
Contact: Maris Juberts, maris.juberts@nist.gov

http://www.mel.nist.gov/proj/icms.htm
Jan. 26, 2005
"...In the spring of 2003, personnel from the NIST MEL, BFRL and the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) completed a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 assessment for the ARL autonomous UGV program...
... The Future Combat Systems (FCS) program considered this when....

Dr. Larry Reeker, NIST (FCS Study Team)
https://webportal.saalt.army.mil/asb/studies/2003_fcs_exec_brf.pdf
http://hissa.nist.gov/reeker/index.htm
"...Vice President/Senior Principal Scientist position at The BDM Corporation (it is currently part of TRW).
...I have consulted for the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Agency for International Development, as well as private businesses...


Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA
http://www.rsc.rockwell.com/
"..Electronics Division develops high speed electronics, MEMS sensors and actuators, and compound semiconductors..."

Current Executive Management
Dr. Kevin Riley
Advisory Executive in MIT/ARMY Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology



Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Germany
http://www.kmweg.de/index.php
War Simulations, Virtual Cities

t.b.c. [Team 2-4]

Articles

Warfare at the speed of light
http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=342
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,82%7E1865%7E1709759,00.html

"..."We've made a quantum leap here," said Randy Buff, solid-state laser program manager for the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command. "We're anxious to get out there and do something."...
...No longer are laser guns the stuff of Hollywood and Strategic Defense Initiative fantasy...

...Will U.S. forces fire lasers on humans? International treaty forbids the use of lasers for blinding people. But there is no legal ban on striking humans...
...Is the United States willing to defend or attack satellites with lasers? The Air Force's Airborne Laser is to start test-firing against missiles in 2004. But the longer range of its laser in the thinner, upper atmosphere brings space vehicles within targeting...
...The era of battle lasers began in the mid-1990s, when military scientists in New Mexico burned a hole in a Scud missile standing miles away. Soon after, a powerful chemical laser funded by the Pentagon and the Israeli Defense Force began blasting rockets and artillery shells out of midair....

...Defense theorists already are performing computer simulations of laser battles. "What it does is change the battlefield," said Thomas McGrann, a military operations analyst who runs battle simulations in Livermore Lab's Q Division..
...Scwartz' challenge is shrinking its laser by a fifth, to fit inside two cargo containers, packed inside a C-130 cargo plane....

September 2000
Twenty-Ton Combat Vehicle Slated for 2012
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2000/Sep/Twenty-Ton.htm

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FCS 2000 Teams -References, Team2

Submitted by ewing2001 on Tue, 2007-07-03 12:41.

FCS 2000 Teams -References, Team2

Team Full Spectrum

SAIC

[see above]

SAIC is also behind a public consumer online game version,
called F2C2.
More here:

http://investors.saic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=193857&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=916776&highlight
10/16/06
SAIC Produces Future Force Company Commander (F2C2)
The Future Combat Systems Videogame for the PC

"...Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has created a videogame, Future Force Company Commander (F2C2), designed for the personal computer by the company's Tactical Systems and Solutions Business Unit. The F2C2 videogame was produced to help demonstrate the networked battle command that the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is developing for the U.S. Army..."

http://www.army.mil/fcs/f2c2
http://www.army.mil/fcs/

http://www.saic.com/products/simulation/f2c2/


United Defense, LP

http://www.uniteddefense.com/
http://www.uniteddefense.com/cap/futurecombat.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uniteddefense.com/cap/futurecombat.htm

"..hybrid power systems, unmanned vehicles, electrothermal chemical gun propulsion and advanced structural composites.."

ITT Industries

http://www.itt.com/
http://www.aes.itt.com/S&T/S&T_06S-SIW-074.pdf

Federation Object Model (FOM)s for
Future Combat System’s simulation baseline

Northrop Grumman Corp

http://sec.edgar-online.com/2004/04/12/0001193125-04-060355/Section8.asp
"...Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems, Integrated Systems, Information Technology and Mission Systems sectors serve as either prime contractors or subcontractors on 10 of the FCS program's 21 concept and development teams..."

...planning, assessment, execution and monitoring services for Army elements and units throughout the FCS unit of action...

http://investor.northropgrumman.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112386&p=irol-newsArticle_Print&ID=450017&highlight=
"..Northrop Grumman Corporation's California Microwave Systems (CMS) will serve as the aerial sensor integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System (FCS) program..."

http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/products/Comms_overview.htm

"...Our Denro Systems product line provides sophisticated, highly reliable voice communications switching and recording systems for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Defense and other government agencies throughout the U.S...."

[Note: Northrop Grumman successfully completed once the sale of the TRW Automotive unit to the Blackstone Group;
both linked to WTC7 and NRO Satellite StarWars Tests

Northrop Grumman also played a vital role in support of "Operation Iraqi Freedom"]

Logistics Management Institute (LMI)

http://www.lmi.org/
"...strategic consultancy committed to helping government leaders and managers reach decisions..."

Board of Trustees
http://www.lmi.org/aboutus/boardoftrustees.aspx

The Honorable Douglas Bereuter
President, The Asia Foundation

Daniel P. Burnham
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Raytheon Company; former Vice Chairman and Member, Board of Directors, AlliedSignal, Inc.

Philip A. Odeen
Former Chairman, TRW; former President and Chief Executive Officer, BDM

etc...

http://www.lmi.org/logistics/militaryoperationallogistics.aspx
U.S. Army—Developing Future Combat System...



SRI International

http://www.sri.com/
http://www.ai.sri.com/project/ffw
Artificial Intelligence Center

Wilkins, David E Senior Computer Scientist wilkins@ai.sri.com

"...Robert Hicks is SRI’s principal investigator, David Wilkins leads the AIC tasks.

...Dr. Wilkins is a Senior Computer Scientist at the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, where he has been since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979...

The FFW program is developing an individual warrior / small combat team system of systems to complement the Future Combat System (FCS) program ...

...[Wilkins] was instrumental in establishing the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute...."

Current Projects

SRI and team members are working on developing systems that enable people working in teams to quickly and effectively manage change.

Strategic Perspectives Inc.

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/product-compint-0000692722-page.html
1488 Evans Farm Dr., McLean, VA, United States
Management Consulting Services

Omnitech Robotics International LLS

http://www.omnitech.com/mars.htm
Robotic Control Solutions for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
"...manufacturing robotic components, controls, and systems for unmanned ground vehicles and broad-based automation.."

University of Texas Center for Electromechanics

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/

VRI

~
Vanguard Research, Inc.
http://www.vriusa.com/seaport-web/seaport-projects-summaries.htm
"..provides the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with objective, independent, expert, scientific assessments of key technical issues which impact the research, development, deployment and operation of missile defense systems..."

see also
Future Combat Systems
Symposium Attendees
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/fcs/bia/attendees.html

Nile Radcliffe, Vanguard Research, Inc.

FCS 2000 Teams -References, Team3

Submitted by ewing2001 on Tue, 2007-07-03 13:18.

FCS 2000 Teams -References, Team3

Team Gladiator (Consortium)

http://www.trw.com/
incl. Surveillance Information Systems




Lockheed

http://mae.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=32&ARTICLE_ID=295336&C=ONEWS
15 June 2007
"...iRobot Teams with Lockheed Martin to Develop FCS Centralized Controller...
...estimated delivery in 2015...
...Managed by the Lead Systems Integrator team of Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the FCS development contract represents the Army's premier modernization program, comprising a family of sensors, air systems, and both manned and unmanned ground systems...

http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=219
iRobot was selected in 2003 as a “best of industry” partner for the U.S. Army’s groundbreaking Future Combat Systems (FCS) program...
...developing a next-generation Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV)...


CSC

http://www.csc.com/aboutus/
IT and business solutions to government

http://www.csc.com/industries/aerospacedefense/index.shtml

http://www.csc.com/newsandevents/news/777.shtml
September 20, 1999
"...Computer Sciences Corporation and Nichols Research Corporation today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Nichols to merge into CSC...

http://www.csc.com/industries/aerospacedefense/offerings/index_2.shtml
"..The DoD’s recent trend toward weekly versus monthly performance reporting on many new major weapon system programs, such as Joint Strike Fighter and Future Combat Systems.."

[tbc]

Battelle Institute

Carnegie Mellon

IITRI/AB Technologies

[t.b.updated]

FCS 2000 Teams -References, Team4

Submitted by ewing2001 on Tue, 2007-07-03 13:27.

FCS 2000 Teams -References, Team4

[to be updated]

TEAM 4
o Team FoCus Vision (Consortium)
* Team FoCuS Vision led by General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan and Raytheon Company, Plano, Texas.

– Team FoCus Vision (Consortium)

Team FoCuS vision led by General Dynamics Land Systems
Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan and Raytheon Company,
Plano, Texas.
Other participants with GDLS and Raytheon include:

Aurora Flight Sciences
http://www.aurora.aero/
http://www.aurora.aero/communications/item.aspx?id=apr-158
12/07/2004
"... The OAV-II program will develop a Class-II UAV prototype for the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS)...

...Team GoldenEye, which consists of Aurora, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics Robotic Systems...
...a ducted fan VTOL aircraft that uses thrust vectoring and torsionally disconnected wings that was originally developed for DARPA through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program...

Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/03.reports/pdf/03tr019.pdf

...
System of Systems Interoperability
(SOSI)
7.1 Purpose
The importance of interoperability cannot be denied. Interoperability to achieve information
superiority is the keystone on which future combat systems (e.g., Air Operations Center, Future
Combat Systems), logistic systems (e.g., Global Combat Support System), and other
government systems (e.g., interoperability between organizations for homeland security) will
be constructed. Joint Vision 2020 [DSPP 00],..."

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/misc/annual-report/2002.pdf
2002
Reporting on the period
from October 1, 2001,
through September 30, 2002

"...The SEI is working with
the U.S. Army on the
Future Combat Systems
(FCS) program, which will
lead to a lighter, faster,
and more lethal Army by
2010....
...The SEI [Software Engineering Institute ]has been actively supporting the analysis of software issues for the Army’s
Future Combat Systems (FCS) program...
Principal collaborators were drawn from
the University of Maryland, the Fraunhofer Center–MD, and the University
of Southern California Center for Software Engineering...

Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
4500 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

SEI-EuropeSM
Offi ce 550
An der Welle 4
60 322 Frankfurt, Germany

Honeywell
http://www.honeywell.com/en/aerospace/announcement_details.jsp?rowID=45&docID=4286&catID=2
"...PHOENIX, July 24, 2003 -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced it is has been selected by Boeing Co. and Science Applications International Corp. to develop integrated software for the United States Army' Future Combat Systems (FCS) program.."


Maxwell Physics International

http://www.titan-psd.com/
http://www.titan-psd.com/html/AboutHistory.htm
"...L-3 Communications, Pulse Sciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Corporation, LLL on the New York Stock Exchange. (Formerly Titan PSD, Maxwell, Physics International)..."

Nuclear Weapons Effects X-ray Simulators

http://www.titan-psd.com/html/Pulsed%20High.htm

"...high-average-power, power supplies and modulators for military and industrial applications including ride-thru systems, rectifiers, laser drivers, klystron transmitters, magnet drivers and novel power modulators..."

Titan PSD. Electronic and Reconfigurable. Battery
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/9797/30905/01433565.pdf

"..Li ion is a relatively new energy storage technology that has been developed and commercialized within the past 15 years for many products especially portable power...

...Rapid advances are also occurring to further improve this capability in anticipation of needs for compact high power sources to power lasers, DE< p applications...< advanced other and>

http://www.titan-psd.com/PDFs/TitanDEWCapabilities.pdf
DEW TECHNOLOGY AT THE TITAN CORPORATION

...Maxwell subsequently decided to leave the DoD and
DOE pulsed power business altogether and sold the
combined Maxwell/PI pulsed power divisions to the
Titan Corporation, the parent company of Pulse
Sciences Incorporated (PSI). ..
In March of 2002, Titan completed the acquisition of
Jaycor and its subsidiary California Tube Laboratory
(CTL). ..
...Titan has been supporting USA directed energy
programs by providing services and analysis and
developing advanced technologies since the early
1980’s. Today, Titan is the only USA industrial
supplier of commercial HPM generators. ..

James Woolsey- one of the "9/11 Actors" -head of Titan

[Dark Winter pre-9/11 TV Terror Drill, CNN apperance 9/11 etc...]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bio/woolsey_bio.html

[Head CIA 1993-1995]
The Aerospace Corporation, 1982-89
Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), Geneva, 1983-1986
British Aerospace, Inc., 1992-1993
Titan Corporation, 1983-1989
1996-present; Martin Marietta
Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C.

Stanford Research Institute International
http://www.sri.com/

Sensis
http://www.sensis.com/



http://sensor.com/ow_partners.html
Sensor.com Wireless Integrated Network Sensors
2D/3D Mapping, 3D scene visualization

"...We work closely with Space Imaging Middle East to ensure customers gain the maximum utility from satellite imagery..."

http://www.spaceimagingme.com/
http://www.spaceimagingme.com/content/Downloads/samples/abudhabi.jpg

Whitney Bradley & Brown Inc.
[see above, Team 1]

Los Alamos National Laboratory
t.b.c.

http://www.washingtontechnology.com/online/1_1/17723-1.html
Members of the General Dynamics team will provide expertise in the following fields:

*ITT: Communications and networking;

*Northrop Grumman: Intelligence, radars, surveillance, reconnaissance and unmanned air vehicles;

*Raytheon: Missiles, modeling and simulation, non-lethal effects and sensors;

*United Defense: Ground platforms, guns, life-cycle support and survivability;

*General Dynamics: Command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance infrastructure; robotics; program management; systems and software integration.

ewing2001 pres. DJ Jeff Pumpitout: 9/11 *was* FCS ! (Hunting Steven "LosAlamos" Jones BeBop Wescam Mix

 

FCS- StarWars and

Submitted by ewing2001 on Tue, 2007-07-03 20:33.

FCS- StarWars and Satellites

United Space Alliance

http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/

Established in 1996 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), USA is equally owned by The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation...

Hughes Aircraft Company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft_Company

-major aerospace and defense company founded by Howard Hughes
-acquired by General Motors in 1985
-sold to Raytheon in 1997 and the Hughes Research -Laboratories became jointly owned by Boeing, GM, and Raytheon

-Hughes Space and Communications Company was purchased by Boeing in 2000 and renamed Boeing Satellite Development Center.
-GM sold the remainder of Hughes Electronics to News Corporation which renamed the company DirecTV Group.

-In 1995 Hughes Electronic's Hughes Space and Communications division became the largest supplier of commercial satellites. Also in 1995 the group purchased Magnavox Electronic Systems from the Carlyle Group.

-SkyTerra Communications, Inc. completed its purchase of 100% controlling interest in Hughes Network Systems from the DirecTV Group in January 2006

SkyTerra

http://www.skyterracom.com/
SkyTerra Communications is the parent company of Mobile Satellite Ventures LP

http://www.skyterracom.com/investors/board.cfm

Jeffrey Leddy
currently Chief Executive Officer of HUGHES Telematics, Inc. a position he has held on a salaried basis since December 2006. From June 2005 to February 2006, Mr. Leddy served as President of Hughes Communications, Inc.

Leddy worked at EMS Technologies from 1980 to 2000

[see also 9/11 actor Gary Welz -> EMS]

China

China's commercial space launch firm is the Great Wall Industrial Corp.
Pakistan's Badr-A.
China launched Pakistan's first satellite to a 375-mi.-high circular orbit on July 16, 1990

China and AsiaSat
Ziyuan-2 (ZY-2)
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)

see also
Chronology of China's space program
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-10/15/content_1124841.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/asiasat.html
Hughes' Asiasat-3 satellite

Hughes Space and Communications Company->
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2000/hughes/hughesspace.html

Latino Satellites

http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?productid=1375664&xs=r
The Latin American geostationary commercial satellite transponder market experienced very small growth rates in the past three years...
...this market is expected to grow at a much higher rate from 2006...

http://www.kagan.com/ContentDetail.aspx?id=12
...News Corp. pulled the trigger Oct. 11 [2006] to consolidate its two competing DTH players in Latin America, hoping programming and equipment economies of scale will lead to profitability as early as 2005.

News Corp. considers Latin America a high-growth market and the opportunity to consolidate the platform to a single player was not to be missed...

Latino Satellites/Latin American DTH

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-19651680.html
Aug. 8, 1997
PanAmSat(R) Corporation today successfully launched its PAS-6 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite, the first communications satellite ever dedicated for direct-to-home (DTH) television services in Latin America...

...PanAmSat Corporation is the world's leading commercial provider of satellite-based communications services...
...satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral...

http://www.ssloral.com/
subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications

http://www.loral.com/
satellite communications

http://www.loral.com/company/
...Loral also owns 56 percent of XTAR, a joint venture between Loral and HISDESAT, a consortium comprised of leading Spanish telecommunications companies, including Hispasat, S.A., and agencies of the Spanish government. Through its XTAR-EUR satellite, XTAR provides X-band services to government users in the United States, Spain and other allied countries, including the US Department of State, the Spanish Ministry of Defence and Danish armed forces. XTAR's headquarters are in Rockville, Md.

http://www.intelsat.com/
PanAM SAT/intelsat
largest provider of fixed satellite services worldwide
2006, ...merger with PanAmSat

http://www.intelsat.com/about-us/exec-team/

tbc...