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	EELV Program Reaches Maturity - By Marco A. Caceres - Military Aerospace Technology
		EELV was first conceived in 1994, following a four-month study by a Pentagon task force charged by Congress (in the fiscal year 1994 Defense Authorization Act) to come up with a plan to modernize U.S. space launch capabilities.
		EELV was the result of the realization with DoD that there was simply not enough money in the budget for a completely new launch vehicle.
		EELV provides DoD with a wider range of alternatives for launching its payloads, which means greater pressure for both the Atlas V and Delta IV rockets to perform as expected.
	www.military-aerospace-technology.com /article.cfm?DocID=93 (2003 words)

	EELV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program was a United States government, primarily a Department of Defense–sponsored effort to develop at least one family of space launch vehicles, that would meet the long term needs of the military.
		After the U.S. Air Force assembled its initial blue print for the EELV in 1994, following many years of government funded studies into an improved system and architecture, which was intended to replace all if not most existing “legacy” spacelifters (e.g.
		The architecture called for the spacelifter to be based on standardized fairings, liquid core vehicles, upper stages, and solid rockets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/EELV (356 words)

	USAO/CDCA Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The EELV is a rocket launch vehicle system, such as the Atlas or Delta rocket system, which is used for the transportation of commercial satellites into space.
		In 1997, the Air Force announced that it wanted to procure EELV services from both Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and that it wanted both aerospace companies to invest their own money in the EELV program because there was a potential for substantial profits to be made by using EELVs to launch private communication satellites.
		The USAF EELV analysts determined that, had they known that Boeing EELV personnel had possession of proprietary Lockheed Martin EELV documents in 1997, they would have immediately suspended the competition and conducted a thorough investigation into whether the procurement competition should be terminated.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/cac/pr2003/095.html (787 words)

	EELV: The Next Stage of Space Launch
		In fact, the EELV System Performance Requirements Document listed only three "key performance parameters." These stipulated specific mass-to-orbit requirements for each class of vehicle, design reliability of 98 percent at 50 percent confidence level, and standardization of the launchpads and payload interface.
		Both have achieved notable successes in their first launches, but the EELV program is still in its infancy, and will need continued scrutiny to ensure that the anticipated gains in cost and reliability will be realized over the long term.
		Along with the improvements in performance, reliability, and operability, one of the most significant achievements of the EELV program was the development of a standard interface for all EELV payloads.
	www.aero.org /publications/crosslink/winter2004/07.html (2494 words)

	EELV targets 2001 launch
		"EELV will provide cost savings of at least 25 percent initially and has the potential to reach up to 50 percent over the life of the program," said Maj. Tom Steele, EELV command lead for Air Force Space Command.
		EELV design and development began in 1995, with the first commercial launch planned for 2001 and the first government (medium lift) launch set for the following year.
		EELV represents a major step forward in the commercial use of space and ensures the Unites States remains a world-class commercial space launch provider, according to Steele.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/launchers-99n.html (624 words)

	End-Expiratory Lung Volume during Arm and Leg Exercise in Normal Subjects and Patients with Cystic Fibrosis -- ALISON ...
		For the measurement of EELV, subjects were asked to perform two IC maneuvers during the last 30 s of each workload.
		The mean changes in EELV at peak exercise for each group are shown in Figure 1B.
		Mean changes in EELV at an equivalent ventilation of 60% of the peak ventilation during leg exercise for each subgroup.
	ajrccm.atsjournals.org /cgi/content/full/158/5/1450 (4754 words)

	Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Office (EELV)
		EELV will reduce the cost of launching the government portion of the National Mission Model by at least 25 to 50 percent over the current systems, Delta, Atlas, and Titan.
		In addition to reducing costs, EELV is designed to improve space launch operability and standardization.
		The EELV program plans two test flights to demonstrate the system early in the new century.
	www.milnet.com /pentagon/aircraft/usaf/eelv_fs.htm (311 words)

	AIAA - Aerospace America Online - EELV: EVOLVING TOWARD AFFORDABILITY - Keeping EELV on course and making it ...
		The EELV program has three key performance parameters: specific payload mass-to-orbit requirements; vehicle design reliability of 0.98 (threshold) at 50% confidence level; and standardization, including standard payload interface for each class of vehicle and standard launch pads that can accommodate all configurations in an EELV family.
		Their efforts will be part of the EELV launch service but will proceed in parallel with program launch verification pro-cesses, which are the responsibility of the EELV program office.
		EELV remains firmly on the course set in 1995 to develop improved launch capability at reduced cost.
	www.aiaa.org /aerospace/Article.cfm?issuetocid=189&ArchiveIssueID=24 (2492 words)

	EELV Launches Dished Evenly to Boeing and Lockheed Martin
		The space transportation policy also requires the Pentagon to pay the annual fixed costs for both EELV rocket makers, but that money is not part of the Buy 3 pricing, he said.
		Boeing won 19 of the 28 initial EELV missions, but had to forfeit seven of those as part of the punishment.
		Lockheed Martin won three more EELV missions while Boeing was on suspension.
	www.space.com /spacenews/050411_business_monday.html (873 words)

	Emerging Concepts in the Evaluation of Ventilatory Limitation During Exercise: The Exercise Tidal Flow-Volume Loop -- ...
		The MVV is performed at high lung volumes (increased EELV) resulting in a high elastic load to breathing and requires large expiratory pleural pressures to obtain the high flows early in expiration (increasing the WOB).
		In contrast, during exercise, EELV is reduced resulting in tidal breathing occurring at a more optimal position of the pressure volume relationship of the lung and chest wall with consequent less WOB (from R. Jorge Zeballos and Idelle M. Weisman, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX).
		EELV is reduced at rest and remains near RV throughout exercise despite significant expiratory flow limitation and apparent room to increase EELV to avoid the flow limitation.
	www.chestjournal.org /cgi/content/full/116/2/488 (7901 words)

	News - Inaugural EELV launch opens new era in launch systems (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		EELV offers improved operability, a 25 to 50 percent cost reduction over current systems, and a standard payload interface flexible enough to accommodate changing mission requirements.
		Linda Drake, EELV general manager at Aerospace, said that while the inaugural EELV launch carried a commercial payload—the Eutelsat Hot Bird 6 direct-to-home TV broadcasting satellite—the successful launch was a milestone in the EELV program.
		The first government EELV launch of a Defense Satellite Communications System satellite is scheduled for Dec. 14 on a Delta IV.
	www.aero.org.cob-web.org:8888 /news/newsitems/eelvlaunch-082102.html (350 words)

	friendly printed version:Shenanigans with the EELV program
		When the EELV program was first being discussed in the mid-1990s, the commercial launch industry was soaring.
		So the two competitors for the EELV program, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, figured that they could offer cheap launches to the military and make up their costs in the commercial sector.
		As it stands, the EELV program seems like nothing more than a boondoggle designed to bolster a crumbling domestic industry that is rotting out from the inside.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=3015 (1137 words)

	An Open Letter to the United States Congress: Don't Bail Out Boeing's and Lockheed's EELV Programs
		Specifically, we believe that the Air Force's newly revised EELV acquisition strategy is tantamount to a government bailout of these money-losing EELV programs.
		As you may be aware, the sole providers of EELVs - Boeing and Lockheed - recently announced their intent to merge their government launch businesses into a joint venture called the "United Launch Alliance" (ULA).
		The history of the EELV program (and the Air Force's acquisition strategy) has moved from the best of intentions to the worst of results.
	www.ntu.org /main/letters_detail.php?letter_id=396 (474 words)

	Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Office (EELV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		EELV will reduce the cost of launching by at least 25 percent over current Delta, Atlas, and Titan launch systems.
		The mission statement for the EELV program is: “Partner with industry to develop a national launch capability that satisfies both government and commercial payload requirements and reduces the cost of space launch by at least 25 percent.”
		The first launch of the EELV Medium Lift Vehicle is scheduled to occur in fiscal year 2001, and the first government payloads on Medium and Heavy Lift Vehicles are scheduled for fiscal years 2002 and 2003.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/afspc-fs/eelv_fs.htm (586 words)

	EELV Environmental Impact Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		EELV systems would replace current Atlas IIA, Delta II, and Titan IVB launch systems and are intended to meet the requirements of the U.S. government National Executable Mission Model (NMM), both medium and heavy lift, at a lower launch cost than the present expendable launch systems.
		For the analysis, each contractor is assumed to launch 50 percent of the combined total of EELV flights.
		EELV systems would have lower emissions per launch than No-Action Alternative systems, and no adverse impacts are anticipated.
	ax.losangeles.af.mil /axf/EELV.htm (1147 words)

	SPACE.com -- $1 Billion Question: Where Has All the Air Force EELV Money Gone?
		Included in the classified information is financial data necessary for anyone outside the EELV program to find out if the government really will save as much as the Defense Department and the contractors say.
		The Defense Department inspector general also challenged whether there was enough "visibility" into the program's spending in its 1999 review of the EELV program, according to the agency's Congressional testimony.
		But in the space-launch business, the government has spent billions of dollars on projects, from the proposed Freedom space station to several X-planes, in which the spacecraft were never even delivered.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/fl_eelv_020825a.html (2072 words)

	United States District Court, C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Boeing responded to Lockheed's allegations of trade secret theft and anticompetitive conduct by counterclaiming that Lockheed had made false and misleading statements to the government during the EELV procurement process relating to Boeing's conduct, and that Lockheed was engaged in an unlawful pattern of conduct to inflict reputational and competitive harm on Boeing.
		In particular, Boeing and Lockheed threatened either to boycott the EELV procurement or to withdraw from the EELV business if the Air Force did not grant the companies government subsidies that cover the majority of their costs in the form of cost-plus infrastructure contracts and long-term exclusive launch contracts and launch allocations.
		By foreclosing competition for government EELV launches, and by using their market power to demand that the U.S. Air Force deal with Defendants on common terms to subsidize their EELV businesses and exclude competitors, Defendants also have significantly injured competition in the sale of EELV-class vehicles and related launch services to commercial customers.
	www.spacelawstation.com /spacexUSDC.htm (8131 words)

	Perceived Inspiratory Difficulty during Inspiratory Threshold and Hyperinflationary Loadings -- CHEN and YAN 159 (3): ...
		external ITL, EELV was constant as reflected by the constant IC and constant end-expiratory Pes.
		EELV increased, as shown by the decreased IC amplitude at the
		The changes in EELV under each condition can be measured by comparing the amplitude of the IC before and at the end of the load.
	ajrccm.atsjournals.org /cgi/content/full/159/3/720 (4548 words)

	eelv.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		EELV has partnered with Lockheed Martin Astronautics Corporation and the Boeing Company to develop the vehicle that will replace medium to heavy-lift class expendable launch vehicles.
		Jim Knauf, EELV and Delta IV program manager, the Delta IV and Atlas V families of the EELV booster use the same standard booster core.
		Data obtained from Delta III testing was used in the evolution of Boeing's EELV.
	www.arnold.af.mil /aedc/highmach/stories/eelv.html (238 words)

	Space Politics: CAGW takes on the Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the eyes of the organization, the Air Force is "propping up failing ventures with lucrative long-term contracts, forcing taxpayers to fund the EELV boondoggle for years to come" by endorsing the formation of the ULA and awarding it contracts for a new round of EELV launches.
		If the EELV's are uneconomic, just think about the costs of NASA's two proposed Shuttle-derived missiles, given that the number of yearly launches of these is likely to be small -- and that these two notionally Shuttle-derived vehicles are really quite different missiles, which will require separate, bespoke launch pads.
		Economy is an important reason why the EELV's also need to be combined with whatever launch missiles NASA hopes to have after the Shuttle is retired.
	www.spacepolitics.com /archives/000678.html (2403 words)

	Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		EELV is a space launch system development program to replace the current fleet of medium- to heavy-lift expendable vehicles (Titan II, Delta II, Atlas II, and Titan IV) with a more affordable family of vehicles.
		The new space launch vehicles must be able to meet the Government’s combined spacelift needs (DoD, intelligence, and other missions) through at least 2020.
		The primary EELV configurations are the Medium-Lift Variant (MLV), required by FY 2002 to support satellite block changes and transitions, and the Heavy-Lift Variant (HLV), required by FY 2005 to assure continued access to space following Titan IV phaseout.
	www.fas.org /spp/military/program/sp97/eelv.html (201 words)

	LockMart Scoops Up $1.15 Bil In EELV Gravy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Air Force envisions that the EELV will eventually replace the existing Delta, Atlas and Titan space launch vehicles for use in launching a wide range of government and commercial payloads.
		Lockheed Martin's EELV concept calls for a family of vehicles that will be used to launch commercial and government payloads to a variety of orbits or place them on interplanetary trajectories.
		The company expects to launch several Atlas III vehicles before the first EELV is launched, thus increasing confidence in the performance of the EELV.
	www.spacedaily.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/eelv-98b.html (701 words)

	First EELV/Delta IV CBC arrives at HIF
		The first-stage booster with its integrated RS-68 main engine, common to all five variants of the Delta IV family, will be configured into a Delta IV Medium vehicle and will carry a satellite for the Air Force’s Defense Satellite Communications System program.
		The launch, planned for December of this year from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral, is the first mission for the EELV program.
		The Air Force awarded Boeing 22 of 29 missions in the first round of EELV launch awards.
	www.boeing.com /companyoffices/gallery/images/space/delta_iv/d4_1st_af_eelv_07.htm (231 words)

	Cx41
		Using various financing mechanisms, in conjunction with its state governmental status, the Authority is able to fund the construction of facilities and, while retaining ownership, lease the facilities to users who provide sufficient debt security."
		To find that data which corresponds to the EELV program, the words "Evolved Expendable launch Vehicle" may be used in "Program Element"; the number would be "0604853F".
		Note1: The yearly launch rate purchased, as indicated by "95 AF launches...FY 2002-2020" (prior source) would correspond to approximately 5 to 6 launches per year, split evenly among Atlas 5 and Delta 4.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/nexgen/CapeMap/cx41.htm (417 words)

	Boeing's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle EELV
		Even in the event that the large solids used on the EELV proved both safer and cheaper than liquid rockets, Alliant's design would have represented a dead-end.
		Solid rockets will never be as environmentally benign as liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engines, which would have severely limited the long-term potential of the design.
		Boeing has consistently declined to state whether they would continue their EELV design as a commercial project if they lost the Air Force's competition.
	www.speakeasy.org /~donaldfr/boeing.htm (1309 words)

	spacetoday.net: Boeing, Lockheed form EELV joint venture
		The alliance does not include commercial launches, nor the development of EELV-derived vehicles that may be used by NASA's Vision for Space Exploration.
		The two companies had been bitter rivals in recent years, in part because of allegations that Boeing employees accessed confidential Lockheed Martin documentation during the EELV bidding process in the late 1990s.
		Both companies agreed to dismiss claims against one another related to that dispute as one of the terms of the joint venture.
	www.spacetoday.net /Summary/2891 (251 words)

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