Rapid Fire 2012-02-22: Contrat Pricing Reference Guides
Feb 22, 2012 08:00 ESTRelated Stories: Alliances, Asia - Central, Asia - Japan, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, Specialty Aircraft
- Contract Pricing Reference Guides (CPRG) have been made available to the American defense acquisition workforce in PDF and MS Word format. They cover price and cost analysis, quantitative techniques for contract pricing, federal contract negotiation techniques, and a set of advanced topics such as how to forecast cost overruns or how to recognize and deal with defective pricing.
- US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said that if the Army must use Pacific forces outside the region, commanders will replace that capability to always maintain “a baseline of capability in the Pacific.” Meanwhile, his opinion of gold-plated, scifi-driven requirements: “I don’t want us to be driving up a 53-degree slope, and not at 35 mph.” [DID: after a quick search we haven’t found at what stage of the JLTV RFP drafting this specific requirement was made.]
- Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura wants their F-35s at the original price and delivery date.
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- Britain’s new AW159 Wildcat naval helicopter completes its first at-sea trials, aboard HMS Iron Duke.
- Pakistan receives 2 upgraded P-3C sea control & surveillance planes from the USA. That makes 2 now. It would be 4, but jihadists destroyed the first 2 during an attack on their base at PNS Mehran.
- The Center for Transatlantic Security Studies (CTSS) and the NATO Defense College (NDC) published an analysis [PDF] arguing that “NATO remains the institution of choice for the United States to deal with their European partners, despite occasional frustrations. The name of former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates comes up a dozen times, in answer to his farewell speech.
- Leading to a $5.4M cost on the aircraft alone, this F-16C cockpit fogging incident ended up being pretty expensive, even if nobody got hurt.
- The Office of Naval Research’s TechSolutions is an online tool focused on collecting requirements from sailors and marines in the field then quickly prototype potential solutions to these needs. They made the following video to show a number of projects they have been working on:
