Programs and contracts: Main items - Martin Marietta buys GE's aerospace business... while GEAE looks overseas for growth . Spanish projects struggle to escape budget axe . Thorn offers "radar in a suitcase" . Italy pulls out of VSRAD . Spain approves improved Meroka . Restructured MILSTAR proceeds . US Air Force ponders airlift requirements . Advanced communications for future combat vehicles . Australian research yields better guided bombs . Procurements

In: International defense review: IDR, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 13-18