07/17/11 Sen. John McCain is demanding the Pentagon answer for allowing the Boeing Co. to overshoot its tanker budget by $1 billion. McCain has sent a letter to Ashton Carter, Under Secretary of Defense for acquisitions, seeking an explanation for the cost overruns, which could cost taxpayers $600 million.
07/15/11 The Pentagon's procurement chief says it's Boeing's problem -- not taxpayers' --that costs for a new Air Force refueling tanker are escalating.
07/15/11 (Adds futures prices, details, company news; updates snapshot table) LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - European shares were set to dip on Friday,mirroring falls overnight on Wall Street and in Asia, with banking ...
07/14/11 The Maine Street Bash takes place this weekend, on Friday, July 15, between 13th and 14th streets in Eads.
07/14/11 Sen. McCain released a letter to Ashton Carter, the Pentagons procurement czar, complaining that the taxpayers are getting a raw deal on a new fleet of aerial refueling tankers.
07/13/11 European stocks were little changed, after three days of losses for the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index, as China posted economic growth that beat forecasts. U.S. index futures and Asian shares rose.
07/13/11 The late, great Will Rogers put it this way: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. In deep is where Boeing Co. and the U.S. Air Force find themselves less than six months after signing one of the...
07/06/11 MOBILE, Ala. -- Serenity, as the well-known prayer teaches, can be found in knowing what you can control and what you can't, then taking appropriate action based upon that knowledge. I couldn't help but think about that idea as I talked with George Freeland about the recent Paris Air Show.
07/05/11 Bonn | In the frame of the space programme MUSIS, OCCAR-EA awarded a 9-month contract to the three co-contractors Thales Alenia Space Italia, EADS Astrium France, and Thales Alenia Space France. ...
07/05/11 Purchase expands Avison Young's Washington, DC area presence; five new Principals added TORONTO , July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Mark E. Rose , Chair and CEO of Avison Young , Canada's largest independently-owned commercial real estate services company, announced today that it has acquired Millennium Realty Advisors, LLC , a Virginia -based brokerage firm that provides agency leasing and tenant ...
07/01/11 French Prime Minister Francois Fillon pushed to double trade and boost investment with Indonesia on a state visit to Jakarta
06/22/11 Cutting edge encryption technology developed by experts in the UK called ECTOCRYP BLACK encryption device has been approved to participate in the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed annual Coalition...
06/21/11 Paris Air Show 2011: Airbus A320 Image Credit: Airbus Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS, is expecting to bag a $16 billion contract with Indian budget airline IndiGo during the 2011 Paris Air Show on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, according to reports by several international news sites. The Airbus-IndiGo deal, will be 200 units higher than [...]
06/21/11 Airbus and TransAsia Airways Officials Image Credit: Airbus At the 2011 Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, Taiwan-based airline TransAsia Airways reportedly placed a firm order with Airbus for six A321neo aircraft reportedly worth $600 million, according to a press release by Airbus on its official website on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. The new aircraft, [...]
06/21/11 Boeing 737-800 plane Image Credit: Boeing Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS) has announced, at the 2011 Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, that it has placed an order of 15 units of Boeing 737-800 aircraft reportedly worth $1.2 billion on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 , according to a published report at the Boeing official website. The [...]
06/20/11 LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) - The French navy will join the United States and Britain in using ship-based cruise missiles by 2015 after delivery of its first batch from European missile maker MBDA, a ...
06/20/11 LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) - The French navy will join the United States and Britain in using ship-based cruise missiles by 2015 after delivery of its first batch from European missile maker MBDA, a company executive said on Monday.
06/20/11 Goodrich Corporation has been selected to provide the TERPROM terrain referenced navigation system for the Airbus Military A400M versatile airlifter.
06/14/11 A 23-year-old man wanted in connection with a 2009 Belle Meade robbery was extradited to Nashville from Colorado after he served time there for assault. Jarrett Mooneyhan, who also has warrants from Metro police for probation violations, was returned on Friday to face his aggravated burglary and robbery charges.
06/13/11 Mikey Lozano, a recent graduate of Holly High School, was the recipient of the 2011 Tano Paolucci Wrestling Award. | 
