The Air Force awarded Raytheon $45.5 million for the service’s Fiscal 2005 procurement of Paveway II laser guided bomb kits. The Paveway kits transform conventional bombs into precision guided weapons and were successfully deployed on 8,700 bombs dropped in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
About 10 rockets struck Al-Asad Air Base, Iraq, on the morning of March 3, just over a year after an Iranian ballistic missile attack ravaged the installation and left more than a hundred U.S. troops with traumatic brain injuries. An American contractor suffered "a cardiac episode while sheltering" and died.…