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General Atomics Wins $573M for CVN 78 Electromagnetic Catapult

(Source: U.S Department of Defense; issued June 30, 2009)

General Atomics, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $573,000,000 ceiling priced, undefinitized contract action for the production of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) CVN 78 Shipset.

EMALS is the catapult launch system on CVN-78 class aircraft carriers, replacing the steam catapults used on prior generations of aircraft carriers.

Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., (49 percent); Tupelo, Miss., (19 percent); Mankato, Minn., (12 percent); Waltham, Mass., (4 percent); and various locations across the United States (16 percent), and work is expected to be completed in September 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 602-1.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-09-C-0573).

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This system could be deployed with fighter jet pilots. I feel drones could be used to employ this system. I also have pre-deveolped schematics for a emp-guided missile capable of detonating at several hundred feet without the effects of nuclear reside damaging the atmosphere. This missile could be used by navy ships, subs, mlrs battery systems, planes, hellis, and or missile silos. The outdated EMP bomb was designed to drop with non linear guidance systems out of the older bombers sorties dating back to WW I and WW II. In todays armed forces we do have a tacktical means to disarm radar, disrupt all vehicles that do not have tubular fuses(older model vehicles), cells, radio,and computers. Financially an EMP is an early stage weapon for pre invasion tactics. What we have to understand is once employed there is a window of recovery from hidden bunkers that could be a 2nd line of defense. In Operation Mongoose, for modellling purposes, in the invasion of Cuba, sattelite imagery showed little to no ground forces. What we later learned is that Cuba had an extensive underground network. EMP devices might have to be regulary employed during a war to force the insurgency we face to employ only guerrila warfare style tactics. If will ware on the fatigue of the ground forces and disable necessary defense like air superiority, ground based tanks, anti ship missiles, and sams. We have successfully used GPD in the Philadelphi corridor, Afghanistan, and in the mexican drug war to find hidden tunnels. If we are to employ EMP as a peacefull deterrant method to deter the North, I feel GPD could be used by engineers wtih heavily guarded MP contingents, to marker with GPS the tunnel infrastructures. A simple constant sorties like in desert sheild would then disable and disrupt 2nd efforts. If they are dug to far in in places then we could consider using the bunker busters and heavier munitions. Realistically it is troops size I am concerned about and conventional weapons like RPG's and EFP's. Jungle terrain is impassible at certain points just like mountainous passes in Afghanistan. North Korea should be faced for the war if they keep provoking America. They should bunker in, but I do not feel they are really prepared for the verocity of what we will do if the US mil decides to follow through beyond diplomacy. Sooner or later the gloabl community is going to want a formal stop to the global arms trafficking of nuclear proliferation. I feel the more time we waste, the more time the enemy has to build more of these hybrids. If they do not want to sell them they could e-mail the successfull plans to any axis of evil where other scientists can build such weapons of mass destruction. This is the digital age. I emplore the global community to take action and neutralize this threat. War is not nice, but havind WMD int he hands of known global terrorists is not to smart. These people are actively funding and supplying these regimes with weapons, scientists, money, and the know how so they can buld these missiles anyshere on the globe. At a certain point I have to ask why the global community is just reading news reports, saying it's okay, and not taking decisive action. Most of the civilized world does not want these people disrupting our lives constantly, beyond the US interests! True enough?
 
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