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To: elmatador who wrote (52089)	8/4/2004 10:07:48 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Respond to of 74559

New US spy plane based on Brazilian model hindustantimes.com Press Trust of India Washington, August 3 The Pentagon will for the first time have a spy plane based on a model built by an emerging nation. The US Army on Monday awarded Lockheed Martin Corp a contract that could be worth as much as USD 6 billion eventually to develop spy planes--based on the Brazilian Embraer, whose jets are widely used by business executives in the US. The spy plane Lockheed will build can detect enemy signals and track troop movements. To meet the Pentagon's domestic manufacture requirement, Embraer said it would lease a 71,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility in Jacksonville, Florida, and plans to hire 200 American employees. Major sections of the plane, including the wings, will be built overseas in countries such as Brazil and Chile but the final product will be assembled in the US. The jet programme is Embraer's first Pentagon Contract. "We are happy to be part of the Lockheed team and to be providing our products now for the US Government," said Dong Oliver, Embraer's spokesman. The initial contract to design and develop the plane is worth about USD 879 million but the programme is expected to generate billions more once production begins. The Army is expected to order 38 planes and the Navy 19, Army spokesman Timothy Rider said. It is unclear when the first plane will enter operation. The programme signifies a "whole generation leap forward," said Stanton D Sloane, Lockheed's executive vice president for integrated systems and solutions. Lockheed's competitor for the bid was Northrop Grumman Corp. It wanted to use a Gulfstream aircraft built by an American company, Genral Dynamics.