President Bush, currently visiting the Middle East, has named Air Force Lt. Gen. William Fraser to oversee compliance with the US-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan known as the “roadmap,” AFP news service reported yesterday. Fraser serves currently as assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff in the Pentagon.
The Air Force on March 12 awarded contract modifications worth a combined $2.4 billion to Boeing to procure an undisclosed number of E-7 Wedgetail as part of the program's engineering and manufacturing development phase and continue work on the airborne battle management aircraft’s radar.