Category Archives: Defense Department

Navy, People

"Father of Aegis" dies at 83

Nearly 30 years after he became the plankowner of the Aegis Weapons System program, RADM Wayne Meyer has passed away.  Aegis, which is now the core of the Navy’s air defense and nascent ABM capability, pushed forward the art of data display and phased-array radar, and changed the way cruiser and destroyer captains “fight the ship.”

From the LA Times obituary:

“Retired Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer, who was known as the “Father of Aegis,” the Navy’s primary air-defense weapon system that revolutionized how the Navy performed air defense, has died. He was 83.

Meyer, who managed the development and early building of the Aegis system and later had an Aegis-equipped destroyer named after him, died of heart failure Tuesday at a hospital in Washington, D.C., said his son James.”

via Wayne E. Meyer dies at 83; retired Navy rear admiral — latimes.com.

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Air Force, Boeing, tech

Update- C-130 AMP is "targeted for cancellation"

Even as Boeing has completed development on the C-130 Avionics Mondernization Program, the Air Force — which cancelled the Milestone C approval meeting this summer — is apparently angling to cancel the program.  C-130 AMP would upgrade C-130 cargo planes with “glass cockpit” control systems. But it has been beset with cost overruns and a halving of the number of aircraft it would have been installed in.

“Air Force officials have proposed to end the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program, a multibillion-dollar program aimed at updating the cockpit of older C-130 aircraft, according to a Bloomberg.com report.”

via Report: C-130 modernization program proposed for cancellation – Breaking News – Macon.

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