NEW YORK U.S. Air Force officials are examining ways to accelerate product improvements into the services' F110 and F100 engine fleets in response to six, non-fatal engine-related class-A mishaps that occurred in USAF F-l6s between November 1998 and February 1999.

COLORADO SPRINGS Responding to congressional demands for a coherent military “space control” policy, the Clinton Administration is pursuing a relatively benign approach to “negation,” focusing on nonlethal, reversible effects—such as jamming of data links—rather than destroying satellites in orbit.

ARLINGTON, VA. One of the harshest congressional critics of American satellite builders’ dealings with China extended an olive branch last week, offering to work with industry to alleviate “draconian regulatory changes” that could destroy U.S. competitiveness.

Washington The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked Boeing to build an unmanned combat aerial vehicle to prove it is possible to have an operational UCAV by 2010 capable of destroying enemy air defenses in a high-threat environment as well as carrying out other strike missions.

Moscow A prototype of the upgraded Mi-24VM attack helicopter, with a night-vision-compatible cockpit, has made its first demonstration flight in preparation for further flight tests in May. The first of two prototypes commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Defense will undergo flight worthiness testing.