Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron
From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Consolidated Contract at JSC
Message-ID: <438@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 13:14:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.438
Posted: Mon Oct 21 13:14:11 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Oct-85 07:31:11 EDT
References: <1092@hou2h.UUCP>
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
Lines: 11

> I heard a rumour recently that Ford Aerospace had lost the
> consolidated contract at JSC.  FACC also just lost out on the
> DIVAD project also.  If FACC did lose the contract, who picked
> it up?

DIVAD is the imfamous Sargeant York Divisional Air Defense gun.
Problem is that it has immense difficulty shooting down airplanes,
so Casper (the friendly Ghost) Weinberger scrapped it and they are
going to reimplement it from scratch.

-Ron