ROCKVILLE, Maryland - BAE Systems today completed its acquisition of Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc., a Tucson, Arizona-based producer of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and advanced materials following receipt of regulatory approval.

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(Evendale, Ohio, March 9, 2009) -- It is no simple feat introducing durable, lightweight composite components into the "hot section" of a flying jet engine. But GE Aviation is achieving this elusive, technical milestone. The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team's F136 development engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) contains thirdstage, low-pressure turbine vanes made by GE from ceramic matrix composites (CMC). This could lead to the first commercial use of CMCs in a jet engine's hot section (combustor and turbine areas) when a F136-powered JSF begins flight testing in 2010.