The early Romans used a lunar calendar with the year beginning on the first of March. It was replaced by the solar based Julian calendar in the year 46 BCE. The month of March is named for Mars, the Roman God of War. The current names of months after August still carry the old Ro-man numerical designation. September was the seventh month, October was num-ber eight and so on through December, number ten. Curiously, they didn’t identify any months between December and March.

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Until someone figures out a way to manufacture antimatter, fusion is by far the cleanest and most abundant source of power we can hope to har-vest. We've known this for a long time, but fusion is hard, and it's expensive to build the giant lasers or toroidal plasma containment systems that are needed to get it to work. By most esti-mates, we're something like 40 years away from an operational fusion pow-er plant.

"Most estimates" do not, apparently, include research being done at Lock-heed Martin's secretive advanced de-velopment center, Skunk Works. At Google's Solve For X, Charles Chase describes what his team has been working on: a trailer-sized fusion pow-er plant that turns cheap and plentiful hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) into helium plus enough energy to power a small city. It's safe, it's clean, and Lockheed is promising an operational

unit by 2017 with assembly line pro-duction to follow, enabling everything from unlimited fresh water to engines that take spacecraft to Mars in one month instead of six.

Lockheed's fusion power plant uses radio energy to heat deuterium gas inside tightly controlled magnetic fields, creating a very high tempera-ture plasma that's much more stable and well confined than you'd find in something like a tokamak.

Chase didn't give a whole lot more technical detail, but he seemed confi-dent in predicting a 100mW proto-type by 2017, with commercial 100mW systems available by 2022, implying that all global energy de-mands will be able to be met by fu-sion power by about 2045. No more oil, no more coal, no more nuclear, and not even any solar or wind or hydro will be necessary (unless you're

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LMMAR needs a volunteer (or two) to take up where Carl Roberts

leaves off. We will only be able to publish a limited newsletter until

we have a replacement Newsletter Editor. Carl will help the new

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into that sort of thing): fusion has the potential to produce as much afforda-ble clean power as we'll ever need, for the entire world. That's wild, and we may see it happen in less than a dec-ade. That is, if Lockheed Martin's plans come to fruition, which we certainly hope they do.

For more details visit:

http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheeds-skunk-works-promises-fusion-power-four-years

Membership Report— March, 2013

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Lockheed Martin Completes 400th MH-60 Digital Cockpit for Installation on First Australian Romeo Helicopter

AVALON, Australia, Feb. 25, 2013

Lockheed Martin has completed the 400th Common Cockpit™ avionics suite for the U.S. Navy’s MH-60 Seahawk helicopter program. The digital cockpit will be in-stalled aboard the first of 24 MH-60R (Romeo) anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare helicopters to be acquired by the

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Royal Australian Navy via the U.S. Govern-ment’s Foreign Military Sales program.

“The Common Cockpit avionics suite has proved to be a highly effective flight and mission systems hub during more than 600,000 flight hours aboard the U.S. Na-vy’s fleet of 360 MH-60R and MH-60S helicopters built and delivered to date,” said Capt. James Glass, program manager for H-60 Multi-Mission Helicopters. “A digital, all glass cockpit that’s common to both platforms and operationally proven will enable critical interoperability between MH-60 aircraft operated by both the Aus-tralian and U.S. navies.”

Australia is the first international customer to buy the U.S. Navy’s MH-60R multi-mission helicopter, which became opera-tional in January 2006. The U.S. Navy is expected to take delivery of the first mis-sion-ready MH-60R helicopter in Decem-ber 2013 for transfer to the Royal Australi-an Navy in early 2014. All 24 Australian aircraft are to be delivered by mid 2016.

“The MH-60R is a proven capability with the Common Cockpit at its core,” said Capt Scott Lockey, who is the Project Di-rector for the Australian MH-60R program. “The Australian acquisition of 24 multi-mission Romeo helicopters means that we will have the capacity to provide at least eight warships with a combat helicopter at the same time, and we can rely on the Common Cockpit to successfully network and communicate with our fleet.”

The Common Cockpit avionics suite fea-tures four large, flat-panel, multi-function, night-vision-compatible, color displays. The suite processes and manages communica-tions and sensor data streaming into MH-60 multi-mission helicopters, presenting to the crew of three actionable information that significantly reduces workload while increasing situational awareness.

Stratford, Connecticut-based Sikorsky builds the MH-60R and MH-60S aircraft. Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Train-ing in Owego, N.Y. delivered the first MH-60 Common Cockpit avionics suite in 2002 when U.S. Navy MH-60S helicopters became operational.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lock-heed Martin is a global security and aero-space company that employs about 120,000 people worldwide and is princi-pally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. The Cor-

poration’s net sales for 2012 were $47.2 billion.

Common Cockpit avionics suite is a trade-mark of Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Lockheed Martin's Aegis System Inter-cepts Ballistic Missile Target Using Satel-lite-based Information for the First Time

KAUAI, Hawaii, Feb. 13, 2013 – Lockheed Martin's [NYSE: LMT] second-generation Ae-gis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system achieved its first intercept using tracking information from the space tracking and surveillance system demonstration satellites during a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) test.

The system successfully launched and guid-ed a Standard Missile-3 Block IA guided mis-sile to engage a medium range unitary ballis-tic missile target using remote tracking infor-mation from the satellites that was integrat-ed through the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system.

U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS Lake Erie (CG-70) received tracking information from space tracking and surveillance satellites and launched the missile before the shipboard SPY-1 radar detected the target. The Aegis BMD Weapon System then guided the mis-sile using tracking information from the space-based assets until the target was de-tected and tracked by the SPY-1 radar. The shipboard radar transmitted guidance com-mands to the SM-3 guided missile that inter-cepted the target.

"Aegis has achieved many firsts, but using accurate tracking information from a satellite to flexibly enable expanded battlespace and the capabilities of the sea-based Aegis BMD system may prove to be one of the program's most significant milestones," said Nick Bucci, director of BMD development programs for

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Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training business. "For a long time, many have believed the best path forward for missile defense is an architecture that combines flexible sea-based defenses with persistent space-based capabilities. This test proves that technology and that archi-tecture can be a reality."

The test marks the ninth time in three years that the USS Lake Erie and its crew successfully performed at-sea operations against cruise and ballistic missile targets using the second-generation Aegis BMD system. Recently, it received faster, more powerful commercial-off-the-shelf signal processing equipment and updates to its weapon system computer programs.

Aegis BMD's upgraded signal processor enables the Navy to defeat more sophisti-cated ballistic missile threats using im-proved target identification capabilities. It includes an open architecture BMD compu-ting suite that improves overall system capabilities and enables future insertion of more off-the-shelf products, third-party components and turn-key solutions.

The MDA and Navy are jointly developing Aegis BMD as part of the United States' Ballistic Missile Defense System. Currently, 26 U.S. Aegis BMD-equipped warships have the certified capability to engage bal-listic missiles and perform long-range sur-veillance and tracking missions. That num-ber is expected to increase to 32 by 2014.

Lockheed Martin is a world leader in sys-tems integration and the development of air and missile defense systems and tech-nologies, including the first operational hit-to-kill interceptor. It also has considerable experience in interceptor design and pro-duction, infrared seekers, command and control/battle management and communi-cations, precision pointing and tracking optics, as well as radar and signal pro-cessing. The company makes significant contributions to major U.S. missile defense systems and participates in several global missile defense partnerships.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lock-heed Martin is a global security and aero-space company that employs about 120,000 people worldwide and is principal-ly engaged in the research, design, devel-opment, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology sys-tems, products and services. The Corpora-

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tion's net sales for 2012 were $47.2 bil-lion.

Positive History series; 2003 – 2006 by Ralph Tamm

#3 Ignaz Semmelweis In the early nineteenth century Vienna the hospital obstetrics, death rate of mothers giving birth, was monstrous. And about eight out of ten failed to survive a surgical operation. Puerperal infection was the reason and no one knew how to avoid it. Expectant mothers of that day justifiably lived in mortal fear of going to a hospital to give birth. They preferred a mid wife to support delivery.

Medical doctors of that day wore gar-ments with abundantly encrusted blood, pus and fluids to demonstrate experience. The doctors would spend time in a mortu-ary examining a cadaver then go immedi-ately into the maternity ward and examine an expectant mother without washing their hands.

A Doctor, Ignaz Semmelweis (1818 – 1865), hypothesized that failure to wash hands with soap and chlorine prior to touching a living patient was responsible for the infection and, therefore, the high death rate. In 1848 he tested this hypoth-esis in a division he controlled and the results were truly outstanding. He had no childbirth deaths. Even with this demon-strated success the other doctors would not heed his advise. It took another gen-eration of doctors before a change took place. Years of controversy undermined his spirit and he suffered a breakdown and died. Ironically his illness and death was caused by an infection apparently the result of an operation he had performed before his illness. He died of the same disease he struggled to eradicate all his life. Many believe that the infection that killed him was self-inflicted.

Ref ; Thompson, Morton, The Cry and The Covenant - a historical novel

February 2013 Bridge Results Feb 5, 2013 individual duplicate - 1st place – Roger Abegg; 2nd place – Doug Gordon; and 3rd place – Dave Topka

Feb 7, 2013 pairs duplicate - 1st place – Chet Hayes & Ted Hinshaw; 2nd place – Doug Gordon & Bob Vigeant.

Feb 12, 2013 individual duplicate - 1st place – (tie) Dave Himmelblau, Chuck

Schmidt, and Bob Vigeant.

Feb 14, 2013 pairs duplicate 1st place – John Parker & Tony Zadel; 2nd place – Dave Himmelblau & Dave Topka.

Feb 19, 2013 individual duplicate - 1st place – Chuck Schmidt; 2nd place – Doug Gordon, and 3rd place – Ted Hinshaw.

Feb 21, 2013 pairs duplicate - 1st place – Chet Hayes & Ted Hinshaw; 2nd place –Gary Bea & Chuck Schmidt.

Feb 26, 2013 pairs duplicate - 1st place – Doug Gordon & Bob Vigeant; 2nd place – Dave Himmelblau & Dave Topka.

Feb 28, 2013 pairs duplicate - 1st place (tie) –Gary Bea & Chuck Schmidt and – John Parker & Tony Zadel.

Travel news: We are completing the process for all the trips we are offering the members.

1. The pageant of the masters this year.

2. Branson in the fall after the Christ-mas lights are up

3. the Rose Bowl Parade

Two Presentations on our upcoming trips There will also be a special de-signed flyer We are completing the pricing of all our trips for this year and next year. Our members will be able to select from 29 trips that are guaranteed to go. Vern De Vincenzi, Travel Chairman

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February, 2013

Activity Calendar LMMAR Executive Board Meeting. First Monday of each month unless holiday conflict, then second Monday. 9:30 a.m. Bldg. 157-

Front Lobby Conference Room.

LMMAR Newsletter Mailing Session. Volunteers needed. Second Thursday of each month. 9:00 a.m. Bldg. 157-Litrium. Contact

Norm Dhom (408) 732-2742.

LMMAR Bridge Card Players. Join the fun! Every Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00 noon at the Willow Park Condominiums located at the

NE corner of Moffet Blvd. and Middlefield Road in Mountain View. Entrance is from Moffet Blvd. Contact Dave Himmelblau, ‘phone

No. 650 968-1121.

Lockheed Martin Blood Bank. Second Wednesday of each month. 8:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m. Bldg. 163. LMMAR Contact Norm Dhom

(408) 732-2742.

Lockheed Martin Retirees Investment Group (LMRIG). Meets last Thursday of each month, 1:00-2:00 p.m. in B163 at the corner of J

Street and 1st Ave. (Employee Connection Building). Dues are $2. Contact Don Kinell (650) 948-1520 or Martin Abelow (408) 253-

6924. Join us for lunch in the B-157 cafeteria prior to the meeting between 11:40-12:40.

Central Park BBQ. Watch This Spot for the LMMAR-Mid-August -Barbeque in Central Park. Join us for a fun-filled afternoon

where last year approximately 80 plus retirees filled the tables and enjoyed an “all you can eat” catered barbeque.

For your financial needs, please contact Star One Credit Union at www.starone.org or (866) 543-5202 toll free.