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Funding, legal challenges frustrate ARH, LUH plansUS Army aviation leaders say the transformation funded by cancellation of the Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche project is still on track, despite issues with three programmes launched since the advanced combat helicopter was terminated in 2004.The ar adidas originals samba my acknowledges that deployment of Bell s ARH-70A armed reconnaissance helicopter ARH is already almost a year behind schedule. The goal to have the first unit equipped by October 2008 has slipped to July 2009, but officials say the $3.2 billion programme is not yet behind the schedule agreed with the Department of Defense.Brig Gen Bill Phillips, deputy programme executive officer PEO a adidas campus viation, says the contract awarded in August 2005 was for a 36-month development programme, but the DoD judged this too aggressive and budgeted for 54 months. We will be somewhere in between, maybe 45 months, but well within the nike air force 54-month baseline, he says.US Congress has cut fiscal-year 2007 funding for initial ARH production from 38 to 32 helicopters: enough to equip the first 30-aircraft unit, but short of that needed to begin training, says PEO aviation Paul Bogosian. We hope to redress that in the 2008 budget, or it will affect our ability to train up, he says. Another 120 helicopters could be added to the 368-aircraft ARH programme to equip the National Guard.The army still hopes to receive its first UH-72A light utility helicopters this year, if the Government Accountability Office GAO Utid F-16 airprox link unproven after Lufthansa student s fatal crash
Source:MAD SolutionsDaughters of Abdul-RahmanCairo-based Arab cinema distribution and marketing company Mad Solutions is extending its footprint into North America after taking an equity stake in New York-based arthouse distributor D Street Releasing.Under the new partnership, MAD Solutions will theatrically release five to seven Arab-language films in the US and Canada annually.First titles being lined up for 2022 include Jordanian filmmaker Zaid Abu Hamdans family dramaDaughters of Abdul-Rahman; Tunisian director Mehdi Hmilis post-revolution societal dramaStreams, about a woman who overcomes the odds to reunite with her son, and hauntedhouse tale Barra El Manhag by top Egyptian directorAmrSalama.D Street Releasing is a division of D Street Media Group, a production, distribution and music publishing company with affiliate operations in the US, Germany, Ecuador, Argentina and South Africa.It has been largely dormant in recent years but the decision to reactivate it came about after a meeting at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah last December between Mad Solu owala ca tions cofounders Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab and D Streets founding CEO Dexter Davis and partner Silvana hydro flask Santamaria. After taking a break from the theatrical distribution business, Im extremely excited about this reboot wi owala th visionary partners Alaa and Maher, who both bring with them a wealth of regional experience, creative connections and marketing knowledge to the company, said Dexter Davis, CEO of D |
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