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Tell
Your Legislators: "Support H.R. 679!"
By Brian Watson |
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A Small
Sampling of
Navy Contracts
for
June 1999
A VERY good month for Raytheon!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Raytheon Systems Company,
Andover, MA and Dallas,
TX
$140,000,000 for development and
manufacture of Multifunction Radar - 45 units.
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Raytheon Aircraft Company
$64,500,000 to produce 22 T-6A
Texan II primary training aircraft. This brings the total to 68 aircraft
and the total value of the contract to $459,000,000.
$38,000,000 35 AAS-44 thermal
imaging and laser detecting/ranging/tracking sensor sets.
Source: "Industrial Base." SEAPOWER,
Vol. 42, No. 7 (July
1999)
Also
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Lockheed-Martin-Government
Electronic Systems
Morristown, NJ
4,139,530 hours of engineering
services for work on DDG51 Aegis Combat Systems.
$343,678,065-total contract with
all options exercised. NOT competitively bid.
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Environmental Company Inc.
Issaquah, WA
$25,000,000 for environmental services.
Most work done at PSNS, Bangor and Whidbey Island.
Seattle, WA
$9,379,430 for modification and
repair of shipboard equipment, hull and ships systems as well as replacement
in the physical fitness facility on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Source: DefenseLink News
http://ww.dtic/defencelinknews/contracts
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Now
in Congress is a bill, H.R. 679, that would discontinue production of new
Trident II (D-5) missiles. This bill is important because it would
stop the manufacture of D-5 missiles and thereby stop the proposed upgrade
of four Bangor-based Trident submarines to carry the D-5.
Please take a moment to send in the
enclosed postcard to your lawmakers to let them know that you don't want
any more missiles built! Better yet, call them or write a short letter
to them.
You can point out that:
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the cost of this upgrade is astronomical:
$$ each
D-5 missile costs
an estimated $60,000,000.
$$ the Navy
wants to buy 106
D-5 missiles for a cost
of around $6,360,000,000.
$$ other costs
for the upgrade
will incur costs of more than
$6,500,000,000.
That's $6.5 BILLION!!
This money could be used to meet real
security needs, such as funding education, housing, nutrition,
health care, environmental cleanup, etc. |
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The upgrade of four Tridents to carry the D-5
is unnecessary to meet the START II-allowable number of submarine launched
ballistic missile warheads. The Trident fleet, in fact, could immediately
be cut to 9 submarines to meet the START II limit of 1,728 submarine warheads,
half of the 3,456 currently deployed.
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The upgrade would severely impact the sensitive Hood Canal ecosystem, given
the amount and scale of construction at the Bangor base to accommodate
the new D-5 missiles. Hood Canal is already in a precarious state
and is a critical habitat for the endangered salmon.
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The upgrade would renew shipments of extremely dangerous missile motors
and nuclear warheads on our railways and roads to the Bangor base.
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The upgrade violates the spirit in many disarmament treaties the U.S. is
bound to obey, such as Article 6 of the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty,
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the START II Treaty, as well as the
1996 International Court of Justice ruling that the threat or use of nuclear
weapons would be illegal.
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The
upgrade is destabilizing and threatening to Russia, making nuclear disarmament
less and less likely.
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These are just a few of the many reasons
to support H.R. 679 to stop
D-5 missile production.
The most compelling reasons are
those closest to our hearts.
Please make your voice heard.Ì
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In This
Issue:
Summer 1999
D-5 Nine Not Guilty 1
Tell Your Legislators 2
Contracts 2
Yet Another Failed Policy 5
Witnessing To Trident 5
Everything You Always Wanted
To Know . . . . 6
Odds and Ends . . . 7
Calendar 8
Thanks to the follow for helping
put together this newsletter: Brian Watson, Elizabeth Roberts, Jackie Hudson,
Sue Ablao, Tricia Sullivan and Stephen Augustine |
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