From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #71 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 23 April 1994 Volume 05 : Number 071 In this issue: NRO FOIA requests are now available !! Re: sea shadow Re: Slighty off topic Skunk Works and the Sea Shadow... See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 01:35:24 PDT Subject: NRO FOIA requests are now available !! I never thought I'd see this happen... For FOIA fans, a new and interesting set of regulations has appeared. Yes, thrillseekers, you can now hit the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) with FOIA requests under 32 C.F.R. part 296. So, get those thinking caps on, write those requests and send them to: Director External Relations National Reconnaissance Office 1040 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1040 Fees and policies are like those for general Department of Defense requests. See 32 C.F.R. parts 285 and 286 for further information. The NRO FOIA regulations were printed on pages 60382-60383 of the Federal Register, November 16, 1993 edition. Maybe we should have a "Super Spook" award for the first person who gets them to admit what the actual resolution is of a KH-12 spy satellite... Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ From: dadams@netcom.com (Dean Adams) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 01:52:07 -0700 Subject: Re: sea shadow tpoole@psi.wilmer.com (Poole, Timothy) says... > Why would a traditionally aircraft oriented company such as > the Skunk Works decide to plan and build a sea going vessel > like the Sea Shadow? Well, mainly because the US Navy paid them to do it! :-) Actually the Skunk Works/LADC was not the "prime contractor" for this project. Most of the hands-on work and the marine engineering was done by LMSC at their facilities up in SF. They also have a lot of experience working with the Navy. ------------------------------ From: "Jean-Guy Labelle \" B.R.I.R.I./ I.I.R.O.\"" Date: 22 Apr 1994 07:33:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Slighty off topic I was thinking og going to the open house at Edwards. Are those events generaly interesting, do you get to see some planes that are now usually available for commercial airshows? By the way, the article in Air and Space is very interesting. ------------------------------ From: Corey Lawson Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 11:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Skunk Works and the Sea Shadow... I think one of the major points the article pointed out about Skunk Works is its ability to finish projects with a minimum of bureaucratic overhead (read: cheaply) in a short amount of time while controlling information leakage quite well. The article pointed out they've done some satellites as well, plus I bet they have some good contacts still in the CIA (that's who had the "barge" built that the Sea Shadow was built in) from the A-12/SR-71 program. - -Corey Lawson alfalfa@booster.u.washington.edu ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #71 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).