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Northrop Grumman was awarded a $49.9 million contract by the US Navy for long-lead parts and associated support for the production of two E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.The aircraft are expected to be completed by December 2023 and will be funded with fiscal 2019 procurement funds, according to a Department of Defense notice online. Some 29% of the work on the aircraft will be performed in Syracuse, New York; another 29% will be perfor
stanley official website med in El Segundo, California; 14% will be done in Melbourne, Florida; 7% will be done in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and the rest spread throughout the country.E-2D Advanced Hawkeye preparing for takeoffUS NavyThe E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is the USNs carrier-based airborne early warning, battle management, command, and control aircraft. The turboprop aircraft is able to tak
stanley quencher e off using an aircraft carrier catapult and carries on its back a large, disk-like radar that has the ability to track threats at long ranges.The USN says it intends to buy 75 of the type in total. So far, it has 33 in service already and 18 on order, according to Flight Fleet Analyzer.In fiscal year 2020, the USN plans to achieve initial operating capability for aerial refueling on the E-2D Advanced
stanley cup Hawkeye. Currently, the aircraft are limited to five hours of flight time, so aerial refueling will allow carrier groups a longer duration of surveillance.In September, the US State Department approved a foreign military sale of nine E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to the Japanese Se Qwpc EBACE: Bombardier rolls out Global 5000/6000 cabin overhaul
Gov. Janet Mills unveiled a tobacco tax hike Friday聽in her two-year budget plan that serves as the final one of her tenure, and she opens with work to do to win over fellow Democrats who may not all rally behind that major change.Mills and her office said the $1 per pack increase to Maines $2 cigarette tax, alongside a commensurate increase to the excise tax on other tobacco products, will generate about $80 million over two years. Those changes plus cuts to food assistance, health and child care programs, will help close a projected $450 million spending gap.The governor noted Maine last raised its cigarette excise tax from $1 to $2 in 2005, while every other New England state raised theirs since 2013. She highlighted public health angles, such as how more than a third of annual cancer deaths in Maine are attributable to smoking. Maines smoking rate of 15 percent is above the national average聽of 12.9 percent.Getti
stanley website ng enough support from her partys lawmakers who saw their majorities narrow in the November elections could prove difficult, particularly given several rural Democrats have banded with Republicans聽to block
stanley fr past attempts at flavored tobacco bans. Democrats have only a narrow 75-73 advantage in the House and a 20-15 edge in the Senate. Some of their members from rural districts may oppose it for reasons of personal freedom, while
stanley cup progressives have often disliked these tax hikes because they hit poor residents the hardest. Im not really a fan of disproportionate taxes,
