Another SAR item notes that the IOC for the Global Broadcast Service satellite system will be nine months late—now set for December 2006. The reason: The need to integrate operational requirements document III changes into the test and evaluation master plan.
In a dramatic flare-up in the hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, American forces struck and destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Sept. 8, U.S. Central Command said. Iran retaliated by lobbing ballistic missiles toward a major U.S. base in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
