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	The Australian Military
		Project Sea 1411 is to acquire Super Seasprite Helicopters for operations primarily from the ANZAC class Frigate.
		Project Sea 1414 is for the acquisition of Penguin MK2 MOD 7 Air to Surface Missiles for the SH-2G (A) Super Seasprite helicopter.
		Project SEA 1429 Replacement Heavyweight Torpedo is a multi phased project that seeks to acquire an anti-surface warfare (ASuW) and anti-submarine warfare(ASW) heavyweight torpedo for the COLLINS Class submarines.
	www.ausspecialforces.com /combatarms.htm (1332 words)

	Welcome to the Australian Defence Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Air 5077 project set-up is therefore a unique approach from Australia¯s viewpoint with a 40-strong Resident Project Team at Seattle providing "insight, not oversight", according to Gray, and Australian aircrew and engineers embedded in the flight test team.
		The second Wedgetail aircraft was being fitted with its MESA antenna during ADM¯s visit to Seattle in November; this is the first aircraft with a full mission system installed and installation and checkout began immediately after installation of the antenna.
		The Wedgetail program has met or exceeded all of its deadlines thus far; the new approach to developing and acquiring the system adopted by the DMO and Boeing seems to be delivering the results all parties hope for.
	www.yaffa.com.au /defence/current/3-114.htm (2280 words)

	Project Wedgetail - Air Cadet Central Wiki
		The Boeing Wedgetail is an aircraft designed in response to Australia's RFP to vendors for an Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEWandC) aircraft (and supporting segments) for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
		The first two Wedgetail aircraft were assembled and tested in Seattle, Washington, with the final four aircraft to be assembled by Boeing Australia.
		The Wedgetail platform is also being used to develop technologies for the U.S. Air Force's E-10 AWACS aircraft.
	www.aircadetcentral.net /wiki/index.php?title=Project_Wedgetail (372 words)

	Wedgetail Exploration NL
		Wedgetail is focused on developing a gold operation at its Nullagine Project, in the east Pilbara region of
		In 2002 Wedgetail amalgamated its tenement holdings in the Nullagine Goldfield, and now has a dominant position covering 686 km².
		Wedgetail Exploration NL's mission is to maximise shareholder wealth by finding and developing quality gold reserves in a profitable and socially responsible manner, without compromising the safe work ethic that protects and maintains the health and well-being of our employees and the environment.
	www.wedgetail.net.au (212 words)

	Wedgetail project faces delay - Breaking News - National - Breaking News
		The RAAF's new Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft face delays in the latest problem to beset Australian Defence Force's high-tech procurement projects.
		It suggests the problems with the Wedgetail are the same as that have afflicted other Australian high-tech defence project including Collins submarines, over-the-horizon radar and Seasprite helicopters - software integration.
		The procurement process for Wedgetail was set in train under the former Labor government - to provide a long-desired capability for surveillance over Australia's vast landmass, and sea approaches.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Wedgetail-project-faces-delay/2006/06/26/1151174115635.html (516 words)

	Products-Project Wedgetail
		Boeing is offering its Next-Generation 737-700 increased gross weight (IGW) aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force for Project Wedgetail, an airborne early warning and control (AEWandC) system.
		The 737 AEWandC platform, with its advanced technology and complete interoperability with the E-3 and 767 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, is designed to fill the airborne-surveillance needs of Australia.
		In July 1999, the Boeing team was selected as the preferred tenderer for Project Wedgetail.
	www.boeing.com /defense-space/infoelect/wedgetail-737 (500 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although the prime contractor for Project Wedgetail is Boeing, this contract was signed with BAE Systems Australia Limited, which is the electronic warfare self-protection suite supplier.
		Wedgetail is being designed for complete air and surface target tracking interoperability with allied E-3 and 767 AWCS aircraft.
		While the number of Nemesis systems is not releasable, they are to be delivered by 2003, while the first two Wedgetail aircraft are expected to be subsequently delivered to the Commonwealth of Australia in 2006.
	www.navlog.org /wedgetail_passes.html (221 words)

	Air Force Technology - 737 AEW&C Wedgetail - Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft
		The aircraft selected for the Wedgetail is the Boeing 737-700 Increased Gross Weight variant (IGW), based on the airframe of the Boeing Business Jet.
		The AEWandC Wedgetail aircraft is compatible and interoperable with the E-3 and 767 AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft.
		In January 2005, flight tests of the aircraft were temporarily suspended while the upper surface of the radome was raised by about 100mm, to improve radar performance.
	www.airforce-technology.com /projects/737aewc (1297 words)

	Thin end of the Wedgetail project - 10 Feb 2007 - Australia
		The Project Wedgetail Boeing 737s taking shape in a highly secured hangar at the Amberley Air Force base west of Brisbane, Australia, are blandly described as Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWEC) aircraft.
		South Korea has also ordered Wedgetails, which were proposed by Boeing as the answer to an Australian need to find and kill everything from enemy warships down to single commando infiltrators in the event of an attack on isolated but strategically vital communities, and the country's mineral and petroleum assets.
		The new vice president for Boeing's AWEC project, Maureen Dougherty, who was sent to Australia from running nuclear missile programmes to knock the Wedgetails back into form, says "We would of course like to see this platform ordered by the United States".
	www.nzherald.co.nz /location/story.cfm?l_id=15&objectid=10423204&ref=rss (836 words)

	First RAAF Wedgetail touches down in Qld - Breaking News - National - Breaking News
		The first of four of the RAAF's new Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft to be outfitted in Australia has touched down in Queensland.
		He said Project Wedgetail would increase Australia's effectiveness in surveillance and air combat, provide air defence support for current and future naval fleets.
		Senator Hill said the project would further develop Australia's capability to undertake fleet management and major electrical and structural modification for other 737 aircraft or 737-type aircraft.
	www.theage.com.au /news/National/First-RAAF-Wedgetail-touches-down-in-Qld/2006/01/16/1137259977474.html (410 words)

	ANZACS Set Trends in Asia-Pacific Arms Procurement
		Project Air 5232 studies covering initial $10.7 million lease of civil bizjets from Australian Flight-Test Services to replace four RAAF Douglas C-47Bs and 10 BAe 748 navigation trainer/transports.
		Project Air 5402 is for six refueling-boom and underwing hose-drum drogue pod-equipped tanker/transport replacements, possibly leased, to replace four RAAF Boeing 707s from 2005.
		Project Air 5404 integrates main features of Boeing Australia's $A490 million Avionics Upgrade Program (AUP) to digitize the RAAF's 17 F-111Cs and four RF-111Cs with new nav/attack systems, in its 14 later-acquired ex-USAF F-111Gs for service through 2020.
	www.aviationweek.com /shownews/00sing1/topsto15.htm (658 words)

	More Milestones for Australia's Project Wedgetail (October 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Australia's ambitious "Project Wedgetail" airborne early warning and control aircraft program recently passed two new milestones.
		In late October 2003, Boeing installed the most important sensor in the project on the spine of the first 737-700 aircraft.
		For the Project Wedgetail program, Boeing will produce four 737-700 configured with the MESA antenna and Northrop Grumman AEW&C systems for the Royal Australian Air Force.
	www.forecast1.com /archive/pr/0015.htm (287 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Project Wedgetail is designed to fill the airborne-surveillance needs of Australia.
		Essentially, the methodology is focused on risk mitigation and permitting a good degree of flexibility early on in the project, then subsequently encouraging a convergence toward a specific implementation and a predetermined set of documental and supporting artifacts.
		The chosen design project is a.NET implementation of a software-based emulator for the Atari 7800 Pro System, a video game hardware console marketed to the general public circa 1984.
	www.tacoma.washington.edu:82 /tech/colloquium/colloquium_aut_2003.doc (1907 words)

	[No title]
		Project Wedgetail is designed to fill the airborne-surveillance needs of Australia.
		Essentially, the methodology is focused on risk mitigation and permitting a good degree of flexibility early on in the project, then subsequently encouraging a convergence toward a specific implementation and a predetermined set of documental and supporting artifacts.
		The chosen design project is a.NET implementation of a software-based emulator for the Atari 7800 Pro System, a video game hardware console marketed to the general public circa 1984.
	www.insttech.washington.edu /docs/colloquium_aut_2003.doc (1907 words)

	Project Wedgetail still flying - Ipswich Queensland Times - Feb 2 2007 8:00AM - localnews
		Project Wedgetail began in Australia in January 2006 with the delivery of a 737-700 aircraft.
		Project Wedgetail is the largest and most complex commercial-to-military aircraft modification program ever undertaken in Australia.
		Close to 200 of them work on the Wedgetail program and 55 per cent of them live in the Ipswich region.
	www.qt.com.au /localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3720090&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= (517 words)

	Wedgetail TRDC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wedgetail TRDC Pty Ltd was established by the Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP) and the University of South Australia.
		Wedgetail TRDC is developing and delivering courses in radar systems and signal processing.
		Wedgetail TRDC’s operations are located in the Signal Processing Research Institute at the Mawson Lakes Campus of the University of South Australia.
	www.wedgetailtrdc.com.au /about_TRDC.html (287 words)

	Radar tests pass the muster at Northrop Grumman Daily Record, The (Baltimore) - Find Articles
		The passing grade on the project clears the way for Boeing to build the systems' parts and components for four 737 airborne early warning & control system-equipped aircraft, plus options for up to three other systems.
		But the radar on the Wedgetail is much more sophisticated than AWACS, which is limited to detecting airborne threats.
		Boeing has been working on the Wedgetail project for the past eight years, but Australia only became interested recently, and signed the contract in December 2000.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_20020425/ai_n10050117 (437 words)

	Wedgetail TRDC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		AEWandC is the only platform that has the sensors, communications facilities and operational experts to achieve this task, as is evidenced by their continued employment in areas such as the Gulf and the Balkans.
		Project Wedgetail is part of the Airborne Surveillance and Control Division located within the Defence Materiel Organisation, Canberra.
		The project comprises a Project Office (Canberra) and the Resident Project Team (USA), where Commonwealth personnel are working alongside contractor staff to oversee development of the aircraft.
	www.wedgetailtrdc.com.au /w_about.html (803 words)

	Monterey Technologies, Inc. - Military Projects
		These projects cover research and development, requirements analysis, and application of human factors principles to the design of major platforms and weapon systems.
		The analysis defined the MSI operational performance requirements for the Wedgetail mission system, developed the RAAF “A” Specification for multi-sensor integration, and made recommendations for the re-drafting of the “B” specification to meet the MSI operational performance requirements.
		Critical areas addressed in the analysis were; requirements for graphic display of “fused” information to Wedgetail system operators, requirements for manual operator “drill down” into fused track information, requirements for automatic assignment of target ID, requirements for system threat assessment, and requirements for assignment of target ID probability.
	www.montereytechnologies.com /MilitaryProjects.htm (3962 words)

	Australian IT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Previously touted as one of the military's best-run projects, the airborne early warning and control Wedgetail aircraft, which carries a huge array of complex radar and sensor electronics, has become an embarrassment for manufacturer Boeing and further tarnishes Defence's already battered public image.
		Early in the Wedgetail program, senior RAAF officers, including the now defence force chief, Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston, praised the Wedgetail project as the model for procurement.
		At that hearing, then project director Air Vice-marshall Norm Gray said the first aircraft would be delivered in November 2006 and that he had guaranteed to the Defence Minister that he would see the project through.
	australianit.news.com.au /common/print/0,7208,19672064^15306^^nbv^15306,00.html (573 words)

	Marconi Aerospace Systems ASD DivisionSelected to Provide Project Wedgetail Avionics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ROCKVILLE, Md. --- Marconi Aerospace ASD Division, a unit of Marconi North America, has been selected by preferred tenderer Boeing to be part of their Project Wedgetail Team.
		Project Wedgetail is the Royal Australian Air Force's new Airborne Early Warning and Control System Aircraft, the Boeing 737 modified for air surveillance use.
		Wedgetail equipment will be produced at ASD's Greenlawn facility.
	www.defense-aerospace.com /produit/896_us.html (238 words)

	FIRST WEDGETAIL ARRIVES AT AMBERLEY
		"Project Wedgetail will increase Australia's effectiveness in surveillance and air combat, provide air defence support for our current and future naval fleets and will also assist in many civil support operations such as border protection and search and rescue activities," Senator Hill said.
		In the five years since project signature, Project Wedgetail remains on schedule on and on budget.
		The first two aircraft are being modified in Seattle, United States, and are expected to be officially handed over to the Air Force at the end of this year.
	www.blackanthem.com /scitech/military_2006011601.html (394 words)

	2003 - BAE Systems
		These are the first major Wedgetail Segment reviews conducted in Australia and have resulted in major design review baselines for the Australian Industry Component of the state-of-the-art Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) system.
		The ESM equipment developed by BAE Systems Australia for Project Wedgetail is the next generation of the ALR 2001 system developed for the AP-3C Orion Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
		Project Wedgetail will be delivered with two deployable MSSs as well as the fixed facilities at Tindal and Williamtown.
	www.baesystems.com /Newsroom/NewsReleases/2003/press_19052003.html (727 words)

	CSIRO completes Wedgetail project for Boeing (Media Release)
		The CSIRO program has conducted research into new technologies for optimising and improving the performance of personnel undertaking complex information tasks onboard the Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEWandC) platform, which is under acquisition by the Commonwealth of Australia.
		Wedgetail aircraft will provide the Australian Defence Force (ADF) with an enhanced surveillance capability in the broad expanse of the Australian north.
		CSIRO Project Leader, John Colton says that the work brought together a diverse team of research specialists in information engineering from the CSIRO ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Centre.
	csiro.au /csiro/content/standard/psgn,,.html (375 words)

	Speech, Generation, Interaction
		The project aims to develop technologies that handle large amounts of data and provide full situational awareness to the ACO and the flight crew.
		The project was successfully completed in July 2005, and Boeing and CSIRO are exploring opportunities to further develop the technology.
		AIMS was a Chief's Special Project which developed algorithms, architectures and software for adaptive interactive mobile systems, to enable faster, smarter and more robust customised information profiling and delivery.
	www.sgi.nu /nlp/projects.php (1269 words)

	HEADLINES.com.au : Business and Finance : BAE SYSTEMS Signs Wedgetail Agreement With Boeing
		Boeing was awarded the prime contract for the AEWandC Project by the Australian Government in December 2000.
		The contract is valued at more than $2 billion and the first two aircraft are expected to be delivered to the Commonwealth in 2006 with a substantial share of the work being undertaken in Australia.
		BAE SYSTEMS Australia's involvement in the project will provide a significant number of high technology jobs to local industry and the capability to evolve, enhance and maintain these systems from within Australia.
	www.headlines.com.au /business/2001/may/013.html (437 words)

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